not for profit and church

gadens melbourne has extensive experience working with religious, charitable and other not for profit bodies across the full range of legal issues.

Of particular significance is our extensive experience in the following areas of law:

• advising on trust law issues arising from religious, charitable and non-profit structures;
• advising religious, charitable and other non-profit bodies on structuring strategies, governance and corporate arrangements, taxation issues, government funding and related issues and assisting in joint ventures, partnerships, consortiums and other commercial arrangements;
• advising on a range of taxation, stamp duty and land tax issues for charitable and not-for-profit entities;
• advising on income tax, fringe benefits tax, social security and superannuation implications of remuneration of religious practitioners;
• advising on structuring and establishment of tax concession charities and applications for tax concession and deductible gift recipient endorsements to the Australian Taxation Office;
• assisting charitable bodies in dealing with changes to taxation, laws, regulations, exemptions and concessions;
• establishing charitable investment schemes and registration as exempt schemes with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission;
• advising on the establishment of statutory trust bodies corporate and liaising with parliamentary draftsmen in preparation of legislation or amendments to the legislation;
• advising on terms and conditions of federal and state government funding agreements;
• reviewing, developing and refining legislation and subordinate legislation which creates or otherwise affects religious or charitable bodies, as well as policy statements and rulings; and
• providing GST advice on religious organisation and structure, including intra-religious group transactions.