ABOUT O’DONNELL TAX LAW

Rachel has worked with a variety of national and international clients and has a reputation for having advanced state taxes and GST knowledge.

ABOUT

Rachel specialises in GST, as well as duties and land tax across all Australian States and Territories. She has a broad range and depth of experience in advising on these taxes, including:

  • Stamp duty implications associated with mergers and acquisitions

  • Corporate group restructures, including corporate reconstruction relief from duty

  • Duty and land tax surcharges imposed on ‘foreign’ / ‘absentee’ persons, including successful exemption submissions

  • Landholder duty (and its predecessor, land-rich duty) and ‘trust look-through’ duty

  • GST advice regarding the characterisation and structuring of mergers, acquisitions, restructures, settlements of commercial disputes, and other transactions

  • Windfall gains tax in Victoria

  • Aggregation of properties and corporate groups for land tax purposes

  • The land tax treatment of properties held on trust

  • Land tax exemptions and concessions, such as exemptions for Retirement Village Operators and Aged Care Providers

  • Other exemptions and concessions including superannuation specific exemptions, exemptions from duty for changes of trustee and in specie distributions of property to beneficiaries / unit holders, primary production and principal place of residence exemptions from land tax, and various exemptions that are available for charitable institutions

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Rachel O'Donnell offers various types of specialist indirect tax law support.
Whether you’re in business or a private client seeking technical expertise, or if you work in an accounting or law firm that needs additional or more specialised support, feel free to contact Rachel to see how she can assist you with your indirect tax matters.