Mia Clarebrough

• Commercial Law
• Equity
• Professional Negligence
• Public Law
• Taxation

Mia practices predominantly in taxation and revenue law.

She acts for taxpayers and the Commissioner in a wide range of Federal and State tax and revenue matters.  She provides advice and assists with tax investigations, formal interviews, objections and all stages of litigation.

Mia has advised clients in privilege disputes and has acted as an independent reviewer to resolve privilege disputes. She has also been engaged in a range of civil and commercial matters including equity and trust disputes, contract and negligence claims and disciplinary/professional licensing disputes.

Before coming to the Bar, Mia was a Senior Associate in the tax group at Norton Rose Fulbright and, before being admitted to practice as a solicitor, worked in the corporate tax group at Deloitte.

Mia is a Senior Fellow of the Law Faculty at the University of Melbourne where she lectures in the Corporate Tax A subject.  She is a member of the Victorian Bar’s Tax Bar Association Committee,  the Tax Institute’s Breakfast Club Committee and is the deputy chair of the Taxation Committee of the Business Law Section of the Law Council of Australia.

She has been recognised in Doyle’s Guide as a leading tax barrister in Victoria.

Recent matters include:

• CUB Australia Holding Pty Ltd v Federal Commissioner of Taxation [2021] FCA 43 – Dispute regarding notice issued pursuant to s 353-10 of Schedule 1 to the Taxation Administration Act 1953 (Cth) (with P Hanks QC for the Commissioner of Taxation).
• The Bell Group Limited (in liquidation) v Federal Commissioner of Taxation – Federal Court – Dispute regarding the tax treatment of receipts from the settlement of litigation (with P D Crutchfield QC, M J O’Meara, S B Rosewarne and C Ensor for the Commissioner of Taxation, resolved before hearing).
• Woodings as liquidator of the Bell Group Ltd (in liquidation) and Bell Group Finance Pty Ltd (in liquidation) v WA Glendinning & Associates Pty Ltd and Ors – Supreme Court of Western Australia – Proceeding relating to the distribution to creditors pursuant to s564 of the Corporation Act 2001 (with P D Crutchfield QC, S B Rosewarne and S Majteles for the Commonwealth, resolved before hearing).
• Commissioner of Taxation v Goh and Ors – Federal Court – with A J Myers AC QC and F D O’Loughlin QC, resolved after filing of evidence but before hearing.
• Ho, Loh, Low & Orr and Commissioner of Taxation [2018] AATA 3911 –  Dispute over GST treatment of sale of subdivided property (unled for the Commissioner of Taxation).
• Clarson Holdings Pty Ltd v Hindle, Buckley v Hindle – Supreme Court of Victoria – Negligence claim against former tax advisor (with F D O’Loughlin QC for the plaintiffs, resolved before hearing).

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