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“In many respects, we regard MS Accountants as an extension of our own team rather than an external professional firm. Dr. Sridaran and the team at MS Accountants have consistently exceeded our expectations.”
Sydney tax advisory
Tax advice for decisions too important to treat as routine.
Led by Dr Maheswaran Sridaran, chartered accountant, lawyer, registered tax agent, and PhD in Australian tax law.
Director-led review
Chartered Accountant · Lawyer · Registered Tax Agent · PhD Australian Tax Law
The team prepares the work. Dr Sridaran personally reviews the quality on every engagement.
In their words
Long relationships. Difficult matters. Directly attributed.
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“I do consult Sridaran for his advice on complex tax issues affecting clients of my firm, advice which he has always provided to me promptly, thoroughly, and in a very professional manner.”
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“Dr Sridaran’s firm, MS Accountants, has served as our accountants throughout that period, serving us always to our complete satisfaction.”
What we do
Any firm can file a return. Far fewer can tell you, before you sign, what a sale, a restructure, or passing the business to your children will really cost you. That is the question that matters most. Most accountants answer it last. We answer it first.
“Are Capital Gains Equitably Taxed in Australia?”
Dr Maheswaran Sridaran · his first book, 2012
How the firm works
Timely care, responsible judgement, and work the team can be proud of.
Ours is a professional services firm that seeks to always employ the best staff, staff who are committed to serving all our clients to the highest standard (irrespective of the stations of our clients). To provide our staff a working environment in which they have access to all the resources they need for optimally serving our clients, we must generate sufficient profits to fulfil the commitments we owe to all our stakeholders: all our clients, staff, suppliers, government, community, and owners.
Our clients and our staff are our most important assets. We will always do our utmost to provide our clients timely care, which is responsible, constructive, and respectful. We will never charge our clients a fee they cannot sustain. Through our unfailing adherence to these principles, we strive to ensure that all our staff can rightly feel proud of their work, and thereby find their voice.
Trustworthiness
Responsibility
Professionalism
Teamwork
Learning from the work
Services
Explore all servicesFive disciplines, one director on every file.
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Tax Advisory & PlanningFlagship
The hard questions: capital gains, restructures, succession, transaction tax. Studied to doctoral level, applied to your situation.
Tax Disputes, Investigations & Litigation
Audits, complex investigations, litigation. Your accountant is also a lawyer, so your case is argued by someone qualified to run it all the way.
Tax Compliance & Returns
Every return, every obligation, handled accurately and on time.
Business & CFO Advisory
The strategic financial support of an in-house CFO, without the headcount.
Self-Managed Super
Your SMSF compliance work done properly.
The director
Why an accountant and lawyer chose to run a small firm.
People with his background usually end up in a corner office at a global firm. He built the opposite: a practice small enough that his own eyes pass over every piece of work that leaves it.
You get the technical depth of a global firm and the access of one adviser who knows your business by name.
- Doctorate
- A doctorate in Australian tax law.
- CA + Lawyer
- A chartered accountant who is also a lawyer.
- 45+ years
- Over 45 years, across more than five countries.
The bench
Meet the whole teamHe reviews every file. These are the people who build them.
Ms Niroshi Sewwandika
Senior Accountant
CPA (Aust) · Registered Tax Agent
Ms Anne Tran
Practice Manager
BCom (Accounting), Macquarie
Ms Lakshika Subramaniam
Accountant
CPA (Aust) · ACMA (UK)
Ms Eshani Rathnayake
Assistant Accountant
CPA (Aust) · ACA (Sri Lanka)
Ms Lakshika Senaviratne
Assistant Accountant
CPA Australia (Assoc.) · MPAF, Deakin
Client proof
What earns trust is what happens when the matter is difficult.
These references were supplied by clients or approved by them in writing. Each one is published with permission and a clear attribution.
01 / ATO matter
“Sridaran had been a friend of my husband for at least the past 12 consecutive years. After a hiatus of a few years, in 2025 my husband approached Sridaran for help with a highly complex matter he was working through with the Australian Taxation Office, one which our accountants at the time had advised offered no legal scope for mitigation. Sridaran accepted the professional responsibility of exploring the prospects for mitigating that matter, and did substantially mitigate it, in a manner that was entirely transparent and therefore legitimate. Sridaran's firm, MS Accountants, now serves as accountants to both my husband and myself. Both my husband and I regard Dr Sridaran to be a professional with a high degree of versatile expertise who is also highly reliable.”
02 / Independent voice
“In many respects, we regard MS Accountants as an extension of our own team rather than an external professional firm. Dr. Sridaran and the team at MS Accountants have consistently exceeded our expectations.”
03 / Independent voice
“I do consult Sridaran for his advice on complex tax issues affecting clients of my firm, advice which he has always provided to me promptly, thoroughly, and in a very professional manner.”
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approved client references
2010
relationships documented from the firm's beginning
35+
years in the longest client relationship described
How it works
One director. On your file, start to finish.
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You speak with the director.
Not an account manager, and not a rotating cast. From the first conversation, you deal with Dr Sridaran.
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The position is modelled before you commit.
The tax consequences of a sale or restructure are worked out in advance, as the courts would read them, with no surprises after you sign.
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He stays on the file.
The team prepares the work; he signs off on all of it. Even compliance-only clients receive senior time on the strategic issues each year.
The promise
You hired the expert. You should get the expert.
Elsewhere, a partner wins the work and a junior does it. Here, Dr Sridaran reviews the quality on every engagement himself. That is the whole point of a boutique firm built on trustworthiness, responsibility, and professional care. The person whose name is on the door is the person on your file.
