Robert Hynes’s legal background ensures that he is well positioned to oppose Australian Taxation Office audits and to prepare objections to unsatisfactory assessments. Fellow tax agents with non-legal backgrounds are invited to take advantage of this facility where interpretation of tax laws and reliance on the legal interpretations of relevant case law are significant components of the area in dispute.
If you think your assessment is wrong you can engage us to write to the ATO and request a re-assessment and enclose the reasons for the request. If the ATO does not agree with us and refuses to re-assess your income tax return in the manner we have requested, then the next step available to you is to authorise us to prepare and lodge an objection to the assessment on your behalf. An objection to a decision of the Commissioner of Taxation is a formal document that includes a section in which the taxation law arguments on which you are relying, are presented. It is necessary to support the arguments on which your are relying with relevant documentation.