Tax & Legal Careers

Business Tax

Our team deliver deep knowledge of tax and statutory requirements and a breadth of experience applying them in practice worldwide. Our practical tax advice, combined with our tax compliance framework, instils confidence across jurisdictions. We help simplify tax management and oversight while providing global visibility for making informed strategic decisions ― with our clients simply working with one global provider.

Mergers & Acquisition Tax

All transactions—whether mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, equity investments, or divestitures—involve complex issues requiring our experienced professionals' dedicated attention. When deals involve companies with global operations, the considerations are even more complex. That's where we come in, to assist and provide advice in effectively navigating the myriad of tax, accounting, legal, regulatory, cultural and labour issues in cross-border transactions to help manage compliance risks and potentially enhance returns.

International Tax

Our International Tax professionals offer services that help multinational companies align their tax strategies to their business through a wide variety of compliance and advisory services. Professionals in our international tax practices provide a comprehensive range of inbound and outbound tax services.

Private Tax

Private companies need the benefit of every available tax advantage to compete successfully in Australia. Advice from tax professionals, who have the industry experience necessary for recognising and implementing real savings, can help Australian businesses to minimise their income and capital tax liabilities. Our professionals can also assist private companies in expanding or restructuring their offshore and international businesses and investments.

Private companies face a range of challenges that affect not only the success of the business enterprise but also the professional and personal goals of their owners. Whatever the end goal — an IPO, expansion into new markets, succession to a family member, or sale — integrated tax advice is critical.

We help private companies, their owners, and individuals with substantial assets apart from businesses they operate to understand, plan and execute effective business and tax strategies — adjusting course when needed to respond appropriately to potential tax consequences of new legislation and evolving market conditions.

Deloitte's transfer pricing team advise clients on transfer pricing solutions that align to their global business operations.

We help our clients implement these policies accurately and efficiently and assist with documentary support for their transfer pricing arrangements as well as other regulator-required disclosures. Finally, we assist our clients manage and resolve transfer pricing disputes with the Australian Taxation Office (ATO), and put in place Advance Pricing Agreements with the ATO.

With indirect tax becoming many governments' preferred method of revenue raising, it's more critical than ever to manage compliance and cash flows.

Our Indirect Tax team understand the nuances of regulations, the importance of industry knowledge and the growing role of technology and provides specialist assistance to Australian and offshore clients across all federal and state/territory indirect taxes:

• Goods and services tax (GST) and global GST/VAT assistance
• Customs and excise duty and Fuel tax credits (FTC)
• Wine equalisation tax (WET) and Luxury car tax
• All types of state/territory duty - i.e. stamp duty, land transfer duty, business transfer duty, landholder and land rich duty, corporate trustee duty, insurance duty and lease-related duties
• Land development, improvement and related infrastructure levies (including Victoria's Growth Areas Infrastructure Contribution)
• Mining and petroleum royalties
• Congestion/commercial parking levies

Our Indirect Tax team assists Deloitte's clients in the following ways:          

• M&A and growth, Global supply chain; and
• Digital Transformation (including ERP, data insights and automation).

Deloitte's Legal practice provides holistic guidance around strategic business decisions, offering cost-effective support for routine legal activities.

We have a long-standing reputation for helping clients to address complex, cross-border issues, working together with our other Deloitte professionals in tax, consulting, and financial advisory to guide clients through projects in a coordinated way around the world. 

We offer services in the area of:

• Legal Advisory, Corporate & Commercial Law, Dispute Resolution
• Employment Law & Benefits, Intellectual Property Law
• Private Clients Legal Services, Tax Controversy
• Technology Law
• Contract Management
• Contract review and remediation
• Legal - Management Consulting, Target Operating Model, Process Improvement, Risk and Matter Management, Sourcing, Technology, Labs, Managed Services, Entity Management and Operations and Spend Management.

Our Global Employer Services team helps our clients to understand the strategic and operational implications of a mobile workforce, including compliance obligations, digital solutions, policy writing, benchmarking, cost projections, and application processing, to support the needs of both the HR department and mobile employees.   

We work with organisations of all sizes and across industries—from businesses with a handful of foreign-national hires to those with thousands of international assignees. We help HR support employees on short- and long-term cross-border assignments, business travellers, remote workers, permanent transfers, contingent workforce, and other members of a mobile workforce. Our approach is compliant, cost-effective, and centred around people.

Many countries offer generous grants, credits and incentives in areas such as the digital economy, energy efficiency, environment, globalisation, innovation, sustainability and training.

More than 30 countries also offer specific research and development (R&D) tax incentives that apply to development activities related to manufacturing process improvements, production trials and software integration issues in addition to laboratory research.

Our team help businesses understand what is available and the requirements for qualification to obtain significant operational and fiscal benefits.

Deloitte's tax technology consulting and support teams help our clients identify, design, implement, and maintain systems with the power to transform processes, governance, and risk assessment—bringing accuracy, transparency, and control to your tax function and position.