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Angela Melick - Founding Partner
email - angela.melick@nuwaru.com
mobile - +61 418 246 326 What Angela brings to clients
With over 30 years of experience specializing in state taxes, Angela brings with her a high level of expertise in stamp duties, land tax and payroll tax across all Australian jurisdictions. Having worked with clients from a wide range of industries, from individuals to multinationals, Angela is able to quickly understand the business issues in relation to which state tax expertise is required, and to provide advice that is commercial, practical and easy to understand. Angela has worked for clients both individually, as part of a tax team and also as part of a business team and, where appropriate, will advise on structuring options for the client to consider so achieve the most appropriate options/solutions. History As well as working with Nuwaru, Angela provides stamp duty, land tax and payroll tax advice and assistance to a range of small and mid-sized accounting and law firms across Australia, as well as to individuals, businesses and companies - through her consulting company, State Tax Specialists Pty Ltd. Before commencing her state tax consulting business, Angela was a partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers, specialising in stamp duties and other indirect taxes and, prior to that, worked with a law firm, Allens, in their tax division which included an overseas posting to Allens¹ New York office for 2 years. |
Expertise
Angela has presented a number of technical papers for the University of NSW, Taxation Institute of Australia, Institute of Chartered Accountants, Property Council of Australia, University of Sydney and IBC Annual Stamp Duty Symposium, and has written a chapter titled "Reform of State Taxes" in the book "Australian Business Tax Reform in Retrospect and Prospect" Thompson Reuters 2009.
Typical clients
Angela has worked with clients in the financial services industry, the information, technology, communications and entertainment industries, the manufacturing, retail and industrial industries, the property, hotel and building industries, the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries, engineering and private equity.
Qualifications
Angela is a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of NSW and of the High Court of Australia, a Chartered Accountant and a Chartered Tax Adviser of the Taxation Institute of Australia
Angela is a:
I love going to the theatre, the opera and the ballet, and enjoy dining out with friends. I also sail (though I haven't been convinced to sail the gruelling Sydney to Hobart yacht race), and sing in one of the Philharmonia Choirs, which brings with it the privilege of performing in the Sydney Opera House 2-3 times a year.
- business, asset and equity transactions
- mergers and de-mergers
- takeovers
- vendor due diligence work
- purchaser due diligence work
- group reorganisations and restructures
- landholder duty issues and planning
- leasing and financing transactions
- securitisation transactions
- covered bond transactions
- capital market transactions
- trade receivable financing
- insurance duty
- real property transactions
- property development arrangements
- retirement village transactions
- SMSF duty issues
- family law matters
- deceased estate matters
- stamp duty and land tax exemptions and concessions
- the planning and structuring of transactions from a stamp duty perspective
Angela has presented a number of technical papers for the University of NSW, Taxation Institute of Australia, Institute of Chartered Accountants, Property Council of Australia, University of Sydney and IBC Annual Stamp Duty Symposium, and has written a chapter titled "Reform of State Taxes" in the book "Australian Business Tax Reform in Retrospect and Prospect" Thompson Reuters 2009.
Typical clients
Angela has worked with clients in the financial services industry, the information, technology, communications and entertainment industries, the manufacturing, retail and industrial industries, the property, hotel and building industries, the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries, engineering and private equity.
Qualifications
Angela is a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of NSW and of the High Court of Australia, a Chartered Accountant and a Chartered Tax Adviser of the Taxation Institute of Australia
Angela is a:
- Member of the NSW State Tax Committee of the Property Council of Australia (was Chair of that committee from 2008 January 2012);
- Representative of the Institute of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand ("ICA ANZ") on the NSW State Taxes/Joint Accounting Bodies Liaison Committee;
- Member of the State Taxes Working Group Committee of the International & Capital Markets Division of the Property Council of Australia;
- Member of the Retirement Living Committee of the Property Council of Australia;
- Member of the Law Society of NSW;
- Member of the CA ANZ;
- Member of the Taxation Institute of Australia;
- Board member of a number of not-for-profit/charitable organisations.
I love going to the theatre, the opera and the ballet, and enjoy dining out with friends. I also sail (though I haven't been convinced to sail the gruelling Sydney to Hobart yacht race), and sing in one of the Philharmonia Choirs, which brings with it the privilege of performing in the Sydney Opera House 2-3 times a year.