Munro Doig was recently successful in the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (Migration and Refugee Division) in overturning the refusal of a Subclass 892 Business Skills visa. Our client had originally lodged his Subclass 892 visa application in November 2015...

Munro Doig is pleased to announce the appointment of Antony Barrier as Director, effective 1 January 2019. Originally from Pemberton, Antony joined Munro Doig as a solicitor in 2007, practising in the areas of taxation, superannuation and commercial law. ...

Just being a beneficiary of a discretionary trust (whether or not one ever receives any distribution from the trust) can have all sorts of unintended consequences. For example, in Western Australia a company or unit trust which might not otherwise be a “l...

By now, many will be aware of the recent release of Practical Compliance Guideline PCG 2017/13, containing guidance for trustees with unpaid present entitlements (UPEs) held on about-to-expire “sub-trust” arrangements. With the clock ticking on post-Dec...

In April this year the NSW Court of Appeal unanimously agreed that a commercial lawyer was negligent in failing to advise on the tax consequences of a proposed buy-back: Ralston v Jurisich [2017] NSWCA 63. In brief Mrs Jurisich was the holder of pre-CGT shar...

The Story So Far In the last three months, we have seen a significant number of changes in the skilled migration landscape, leaving many potential visa applicants (and temporary visa holders wishing to transition to permanent residency) perplexed. In an ea...