Catherine Nufer

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Taxation; Stamp Duty; Transfer Duty; Landholder Duty; Land Tax; Payroll Tax; Foreign Duty Surcharge, Not-for-profit and Charities, Trusts

AWARDS

• Best Lawyers 2024 – Not-for-profit and Charities Law
• Emerging Tax Star Finalist 2018 – Tax Institute of Australia

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Business (Accountancy) – Queensland University of Technology
• Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice – Queensland University of Technology
• Chartered Tax Adviser – Tax Institute of Australia
• Lawyer admitted to the Supreme Court of Queensland
• Lawyer admitted to the High Court of Australia

SELECTED REPRESENTATIONS

• Assisting an international student accommodation group with its Australian structuring, tax, duty and ongoing corporate governance matters (with landholdings in New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia).
• Advising on and obtaining corporate reconstruction duty relief for assets with value in excess of $500 million for an Australian corporate group with significant mining assets across Australia (including Queensland, New South Wales and Western Australia).
• Advising a national and well-known Australian charity, established under Letters Patent in Queensland, in respect of charitable tax concessions and general structuring concerns and assisting with transfer to company limited by guarantee.
• Advising on payroll tax grouping provisions and successfully obtaining exclusion orders for our client from other entities in the family’s large private group (based in Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria).
• Making novel submissions to the Queensland Revenue Office that the acquisition of ongoing payments by a financial planning firm was not “goodwill” and therefore not dutiable.
• Undertaking a review of a large private group (discretionary trusts, unit trusts and companies) with significant property assets, providing tax and stamp duty advice and assisting with the implementation of restructure to achieve broader estate planning objectives.