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David Brims LLB,FCA dbrims@wmssolutions.com.au

  • Strong focus on strategic business management and profit improvement strategies.
  • Expertise in business acquisition due diligence and tax effective structuring.
  • Passionate about succession, retirement and estate planning.
  • Significant experience in the hotel industry including project feasibility studies for new hotels as well as cash flow management and trading projections for existing sites.

       
 

Ben Dean CA bdean@wmssolutions.com.au

  • Tax specialist partner.
  • Emphasis on structuring to maximise income tax and CGT efficiencies.
  • Focus on professional services firms.
  • Board member of his local Rugby Union football club.

 

Anthony Karos CA akaros@wmssolutions.com.au

  • Structuring and income taxation and capital gain tax advice to small and medium sized businesses.
  • Significant experience in the property sector focusing on GST and income tax issues applicable to property developers and investors.
  • Experience in the Aged Care sector dealing with the various structures, income tax and GST issues unique to this sector.
  • International experience on the "other side of the desk" working in Dublin in the IT sector dealing with telecommunication companies and clearing houses.

 

Aaron Lavell FCA alavell@wmssolutions.com.au

  • Strong focus on property developers, hospitals and major hotels.
  • Emphasis on GST, feasibility studies, acquisition due diligence, in bound investment with extensive Asian experience.
  • Branch Tax Liaison for Urban Development Institute of Australia (UDIA) Gold Coast Tweed Branch.

 

Jeff McDermid FCA jmcdermid@wmssolutions.com.au

  • Emphasis on business, tax and corporate advisory.
  • Board Member of Founders Forum Limited and The Edward de Bono Centre for Thinking Foundation.
  • Member of the Gold Coast City Council's Regional Economic Advisory Committee (REDAC) and Innovation Group Working Party
  • Strategic adviser to the Vice Chancellor of Griffith University.
  • Senior vice president of the Urban Development Institute of Australia (UDIA) Gold Coast Tweed branch

   
   

David Hayes CA dhayes@wmssolutions.com.au

  • Emphasis on business valuations, structuring, management accounting and corporations law.
  • Finished in the top 10% of the Taxation module of the Professional Year program.

     
 

Stephen Holmes FCA, M. Tax sholmes@wmssolutions.com.au

  • Emphasis on tax consulting and creating tax effective solutions.
  • Masters in Tax from University of NSW.

 

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