Max Warlow & Associates Pty Ltd

 

Company Profile

 

Background:

The director Max A Warlow, is a Fellow of CPA Australia with specialist "taxation" designation. He has a practicing certificates and annually attends to the prescribed hours of study required to retain his CPA status. Max is also a chartered accountant with a CA practicing certificate.

The practice is limited to specialist consulting fields in indirect Taxes, principally Goods & Services Tax, Payroll Tax, WorkCover Land Tax, Stamp Duty, Luxury Car Tax, Wine Equalisation Tax, Industrial Research & Development, and Diesel Fuel Rebates. The practice does not become involved in the preparation of Income Tax Returns, accounting, auditing, etc.

 Max was the CPAs Victorian State Taxes representative on the State Taxes Consultative Council for 21 years.  He was also a member of the CPA's Indirect Tax Cell also Max was a member of the CPA's Divisional Council and prior to that their Public Accountants Committee and National Tax Advisory Panel.

Indirect Taxes:

Max was employed by the Australian Taxation Office for approximately 7 years in Sales Tax and Payroll Tax, then worked for 5 years at the Prices Justification Tribunal. In the early 1980s Max was recruited by an International Chartered firm and established an indirect taxes practice.

Max and his former business partner Peter Senserrick established Senserrick Warlow and Associates on 1 July 1988.

Seminars and Publications:

Max has conducted many seminars/workshops for industry, taxpayers and particularly accountants in practice and their professional bodies. He is regularly invited to address CPA and Chartered tax study groups and has been a prolific writer of technical articles for publications including "Sales Tax Technology", a book sponsored and distributed by CPA Australia, plus the highly regarded "Goods and Services Tax Guide".

The firm has also produced several GST Manuals and Sales Tax Manuals for various industry groups.

Current Activities:

Current activities on a professional consultancy basis have been for referred and own clients, principally in the GST, Payroll Tax and WorkCover fields. Several industry submissions have been made to the relevant Authorities. Work ranges from one-off individual consultations on say the classification of a particular product, to compiling Manuals on GST for Industry Associations.

State Taxes work, such as Payroll Tax, ranges from lodgement of Objections to running AAT cases.

The firm is able to offer advice on such matters as:

v  Classification

v  Registration

v  Quotation grounds

v  Leasing

v  Taxable values

v  Licensing

v  Refunds and credits

v  Structures

v  Audits

v  Objections.

Clients:

The firms unique indirect tax practice has a mixture of clients, including:

clients that directly refer indirect tax projects to be conducted either in isolation or in conjunction with a clients internal tax division, financial controllers or directors;

work referred through accountants requiring special indirect tax exposure;

association work; and

special projects.

The majority of work is for small business firms.

 


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