Steve Morgan

Steve Morgan

We are a cleaning contracting business, providing services to large supermarkets across some 300 sites in Victoria, NSW and Queensland, our accountant referred us to Peter Tobin for payroll tax advice after we were recently contacted by the Office of State Revenue (OSR) Qld in late 2017.

We were obviously shocked and very concerned when the OSR issued payroll tax assessments against our company, amounting to millions of dollars in back payments, fines, interest and retrospective to July 2011. The OSR alleged that our business came within the definition of an employment agent under the Payroll Tax Act.

Peter took on our case and lodged an objection to the assessments based on a similar case which had recently been won in the NSW Supreme Court against the NSW Payroll Tax Office.

Peter is a real expert in this area, quickly able to identify and analyse the issues and build a case to represent us.
We were absolutely thrilled and extremely relieved when the OSR upheld Peter’s objection and our case and withdrew the assessment.

It was certainly a great win for us as while we are a substantial operation, we didn’t have the resources to pay this additional and retrospective multimillion dollar payroll tax. Peter’s payroll tax advice not only won our case but possibly saved our business from going into liquidation.

I highly recommend Peter Tobin to anyone who has payroll tax issues and my recommendation to other companies, is to get professional advice on payroll tax as it is a very serious issue.

Steve Morgan Managing-Director | Total Focus Concepts Pty Ltd | totalfocuscleaning.com