Mark West and Lyndon Garbutt established West Garbutt with a view to providing high quality, responsive and trusted tax advice to clients, including other Chartered Accountants and lawyers in need of specialist taxation advice and support. The firm’s founders, Mark West and Lyndon Garbutt, are each qualified as Lawyers, Chartered Accountants and Chartered Tax Advisers. Tax can be complicated and overwhelming. We use our expertise in accounting, law and specifically tax law to help clients with difficult issues and situations to provide guidance and identify solutions. Our aim is not just to resolve the immediate issues at hand, but to consider these in a broader context so as to build long lasting relationships of trust. We have many years of experience advising high net wealth families, businesses, non-profit organisations and their advisors on a broad range of taxes including income tax, capital gains tax, GST, payroll tax and land tax. Our input is sought in a variety of circumstances including: - independent reviews of structures and their tax implications, including in response to ATO and OSR prompts/reviews/audits - advice regarding the effects of proposed and actual transactions (including drafting appropriate GST clauses and managing CGT exposure) - advice regarding potential exemptions and concessions, particularly those applicable to the charity and non-profit sector - representing taxpayers during ATO and OSR reviews - representing taxpayers in objections and appeals of assessments of taxes and penalties - representing taxpayers in other ATO and OSR interactions including in the context of seeking private rulings and payment arrangements