Vincent is a tax lawyer to big family businesses, high net worth individuals and accounting advisors.
Clients engage Vincent because he specialises in running reviews, audits, objections and litigation against the Australian Tax Office. Vincent worked for the ATO for around 15 years before joining HWLE Lawyers giving his clients first-hand knowledge about how the ATO thinks before it even happens. Clients have an edge and it sets him apart from all other tax lawyers. The ATO itself also engages Vincent from time to time.
Accountants engage Vincent because he specialises in running investigations and disciplinary proceedings against the Tax Practitioners Board and the professional bodies, such as CPA Australia.
Beyond disputes, clients engage Vincent because he structures buy-side and sell-side transactions from acquisition to exit, including internal restructures of private groups. The transactions are typically in the range of $50 million to $350 million.
Expertise
Experience
Vincent’s experience includes advising:
- High net worth individuals Running reviews, audits, objections and litigation for clients on tax issues such as the 45-day rule, GST credits, valuations, family trust distributions tax, failed CGT rollovers, undisclosed income, cross-border AUSTRAC deposits and unpaid superannuation.
- Private group Restructuring multiple entities in a construction and civil group using CGT rollovers under a top-hat head company, enabling the key employee to buy into the business as part of the group’s long-term growth and succession plans.
- High net worth family group Restructuring a chain of trusts tax effectively as part of winding-up a deceased estate from the 1960’s and facilitating the transfer of wealth to successor generations of the family who will continue to run the family business.
- Confidential accountants Making significant breach disclosures to the Tax Practitioners Board on issues such as breaches of confidentiality, failures of supervision and control, and rogue employees and business owners.
- Confidential accountants Running please explain letters, investigations and appeals for clients on Tax Practitioners Board issues such as unregistered tax agent services, fitness and propriety, false lodgements and declarations, unpaid taxes, unlawful use of trust money, and criminal convictions.
- Mr Mulcahy Running the stay application and substantive application against the Tax Practitioners Board for Mr Mulcahy in Mulcahy & Co Accounting Services Pty Ltd and Tax Practitioners Board [2026] ARTA 2.
- Private group Multiple acquisitions and roll-ups in the aged-care and retirement village sectors, including internal restructures, establishing the consolidated group, and bringing in external financing.
- Confidential government department Running litigation against various businesses in the aviation, gaming, motor vehicle and property development sectors on tax issues such as valuations, dividend stripping, default assessments, small business concessions, penalties and interest, with the largest cases involving claims exceeding $100 million.
- Mr Zartaloudis Running the stay application against the Tax Practitioners Board in Zartaloudis and Tax Practitioners Board [2025] ARTA 2477.
- Private groups and SME’s Running appeals in the Federal Court of Australia for clients against the Australian Taxation Office for not cancelling general interest charge.
