Managing Director / Tax Partner
Joshua Goldsmith
An award-winning tax lawyer specialising in the private market. Joshua advises clients, accountants and advisers on all areas of tax law, structuring, and dealing with the authorities (ATO, SRO and TPB).
About Joshua
Tax, in detail
Joshua is a tax lawyer who you involve when you want the best outcome. His work spans the income tax, capital gains tax, GST and duty consequences of business and private dealings, and he is comfortable in the technical detail that those areas demand.
Accountants and other advisers refer their more complex matters to Joshua because they trust his reasoning and his judgement. He gives a clear view on where the law lands, sets out the risk honestly, and frames the answer so the client can make a decision.
He believes tax advice is only useful when it is connected to the commercial reality and the legal documents. That is the premise the firm is built on.
Technical focus
Where Joshua concentrates
The areas Joshua is most regularly engaged on:
Representative work
The kinds of matters Joshua handles
Advising on the tax-effective structuring of a business sale, including eligibility for the small business CGT concessions.
Guiding a corporate group through a restructure, mapping the income tax, CGT and duty consequences before any step was taken.
Dealing with complex ATO reviews, audits and objections to get the best outcome for clients.
Resolving a Division 7A issue arising from loans between a company and its shareholders.
Advising on the GST treatment of a property development, including application of the margin scheme.
Reviewing a family trust deed and advising on the tax consequences of varying it.
Advising a taxpayer leaving Australia on their tax residency position.
Examples are illustrative of the type of work undertaken.
How Joshua works
Considered, precise, and easy for advisers to work with.
Reasoned, not hedged
Joshua gives a clear view of where the law lands and explains the risk, rather than leaving the client to interpret a list of possibilities.
Collaborative with accountants
He works closely with a client's accountant, sharing reasoning openly so the tax and the numbers line up.
Ahead of the problem
Joshua prefers to structure matters so issues do not arise, and to raise them early when they might.
Work with Joshua
Dealing with a complex tax matter?
Whether you are a client or a referring adviser, Joshua is happy to discuss whether he can help.