On 30 June last year, the Tax and Superannuation Laws Amendment (Employee Share Schemes) Act 2015 received Royal Assent, retracting many of the 2009 changes to employee share scheme (ESS) interests, such as the inability to defer the taxing point on options un...

Munro Doig is pleased to announce Yikai Hoe’s appointment to the position of Associate from 1 July 2015. Yikai joined Munro Doig in February 2010 as a solicitor in Ron Doig’s superannuation team. Yikai completed his Bachelor of Laws at the University...

The Western Australian Duties Act 2008 was recently amended in relation to the sale of dutiable assets (e.g. land and buildings) to superannuation funds by their members. Such transactions, when properly structured, may be liable to $20 nominal duty instead...

Munro Doig has just released the latest edition of its newsletter, MD Insights. This edition focuses on the 1 July changes to migration law which may be of interest to our clients. Read the newsletter here: MD Insights July 2015...

Munro Doig is pleased to be part of Legalwise’s Advanced Visas workshop to be held on Tuesday 1 September 2015. The workshop will run from 2.00 pm to 5.15 pm at the Parmelia Hilton (Mill Street, Perth). Lester Ong, who heads Munro Doig’s migration pract...

A recent decision of the Supreme Court in Queensland (the appeal period has now expired) has held that a binding nomination given by a super fund member to the trustee in favour of “the trustee of a deceased estate” was not valid for the purposes of the tr...