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.
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
Timely care, responsible judgement, and work the team can be proud of.
MS Accountants was built around a simple standard: serve clients to the highest level, regardless of their station, while giving the people doing the work the resources, respect, and responsibility they need to do it properly. The firm treats clients and staff as its most important assets, acts constructively and respectfully, and never charges a fee a client cannot sustain.
Trustworthiness
Responsibility
Professionalism
Teamwork
Learning from the work
Five disciplines, one director on every file.
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.
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.
He reviews every file. These are the people who build them.
Ms Niroshi Rathnayakage
Senior Accountant
CPA (Aust) · Registered Tax Agent
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
Ms Anne Tran
Practice Manager
BCom (Accounting), Macquarie
When the ATO and the Office of State Revenue both opened audits, the response had to be comprehensive, correct, and cost-effective.
“Sri assisted us to manage our dealings with the Australian Taxation Office and NSW Office of State Revenue in relation to audits they had initiated of our two colleges. Sri most competently oversaw the work required, providing comprehensive, appropriate and timely responses to both authorities. He also ensured that work was carried out in a manner that was cost-effective to us.”
Ms Neda Morris
Principal Executive Officer, Director · Caprock International Pty Ltd
“Sri has taken care of the tax work for our company, Quikstar Pty Ltd, for several years. He has always generously given us his time to address any concerns and has always advised us of what we should do; mindful of what is best for us. We have always had complete confidence of his professional competence and reliability and would highly recommend his services to any company.”
- “Tax reform for the best and fairest” · Australian Financial Review · 2008
- “High Court gets it right on GST” · Australian Financial Review · 2008
- “There's a different way to view takeover concerns” · Australian Financial Review · 2007
One director. On your file, start to finish.
You speak with the director.
Not an account manager, and not a rotating cast. From the first conversation, you deal with Dr Sridaran.
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.
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.
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.
