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Tax research AI,
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TaxResearch is the Australian tax AI for accountants, advisors and lawyers. Ask any tax question and get a cited answer — then turn that research into a Word memo, an Excel reconciliation workpaper, a step-by-step restructure plan or a PowerPoint pitch deck, all in your firm’s own template.

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Ask questions here to get answers about laws, rules and how they've been applied.

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AI for tax questions like
Division 7A loan repayment timingCGT small business 15-year exemptionTrial balance → company tax return workpapersDraft a thin-cap advice in our firm styleStep-by-step Div 615 restructure planBoard pitch deck for a small-business CGT rolloverGST going concern requirementsFBT car parking exemption rules

Why TaxResearch

The AI for tax research, made for Australia.

Australian tax software that thinks like an Australian tax professional. Cite a statute. Quote a ruling. Draft the advice. Build the workpapers. All in one place.

AI for Australian tax

Trained on the Australian tax corpus

Statutes (ITAA 1936, ITAA 1997, GST Act, FBT Act, TAA 1953), every ATO ruling type (TR, TD, GSTR, MT, LCR, PCG, PS LA) and Australian court decisions. No US tax leakage, no generic AI guesswork.

Verifiable by design

Cited answers, no hallucinations

Every claim links to a real statute section, ATO ruling paragraph or judgement paragraph with the supporting quote. If the AI cannot find a source, it tells you. Built for professionals who need to defend their advice.

Deliverables, not just answers

Word, Excel and PowerPoint — in your firm’s template

Upload your firm’s Word, Excel and PowerPoint templates once. From any brief or cited research, TaxResearch drafts the deliverable — memo, letter of advice, step-by-step restructure plan, reconciliation workbook or pitch deck — in that exact look, headings, fonts, footers and citation style preserved.

Trial balance → workpapers

Tax return workpapers in minutes

Drop a trial balance into a brief and get back a single Excel workbook: TB as a structured first tab, one working tab per material reconciliation adjustment (Div 7A, Div 40, R&D, thin-cap, FBT, Div 152 …) and a recon spine that ties accounting profit to taxable income to tax payable.

See it work

Cited answers, then turned into the deliverable.

TaxResearch isn’t just chat. Verifiable citations, tracked redlines on your existing draft, reconciliation workpapers built straight from a trial balance, step-by-step restructure plans and full pitch decks — all from the same query thread, all in your firm’s own templates.

Outputs asWord .docxExcel .xlsxPowerPoint .pptx

Verify every citation

Hover any citation. See the source quote.

Every claim TaxResearch makes is linked to a real Australian source paragraph. Hover a citation and the supporting quote opens in line — from the statute, ATO ruling or court paragraph the AI relied on.

  • Citations open the actual source paragraph and quote
  • No fabricated citations — if the AI cannot find a source, it says so
  • Click through to the full source document for context

Unfrankable Distributions from Share Capital Account: A distribution is unfrankable if it is sourced, directly or indirectly, from a company’s share capital account. 3 This applies to distributions that constitute a reduction or return of share capital, even if labelled as a dividend. 4 The definition of a share capital account includes an account a company keeps of its share capital, or any other account where the first amount credited was share capital. 5 Therefore, any portion of a selective buyback that is a return of share capital cannot be franked.

Benchmark Franking Percentage: A corporate tax entity franks a distribution by allocating a franking credit to it. 6 The benchmark franking percentage is a key concept in determining the maximum franking without penalty. If an entity franks a frankable distribution at a percentage that exceeds its benchmark franking percentage for the franking period, it is liable to pay over-franking tax. 7 This effectively sets the benchmark franking percentage as the maximum franking allowed without incurring a penalty.

The Augmenter

Apply your research straight into a client document.

Once you have your cited answer, the Augmenter applies it into your existing draft — pulling in new findings, citations and tightened wording as tracked redlines you can review and accept.

  • Tracked redlines on your existing draft — green additions, red strikethroughs
  • Citations from your research carry through into the document
  • Review every change before accepting
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Tell the Augmenter what to change. It will mark up your existing document with tracked redlines so you can review every edit before accepting.

Update this section using my Cyter Tax research on CGT events E6 and E7. Tighten the wording and add citations to the rulings.
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Workpapers from a trial balance

Tax return workpapers in minutes.

Paste a trial balance into a brief and TaxResearch returns a single Excel workbook: the TB as a structured first tab, one working tab per material reconciliation adjustment, and a recon spine that ties accounting profit through to taxable income and tax payable.

  • Every TB line classified, materiality flagged, schedule triggers detected
  • Working tabs for the adjustments that matter — Div 7A, Div 40, R&D, thin-cap, FBT, Div 152, prepayments and more
  • Recon spine cross-references every working tab — the numbers tie
ACME_Pty_Ltd_FY2025_Workpapers.xlsx

Trial Balance — FY2025

AccountClassDRCR
4-1000 Sales revenueIncome12,480,000
5-2100 COGSExpense7,940,000
6-3300 EntertainmentExpense — adj48,200
6-3450 Director loansLoan — Div 7A380,000
7-1200 DepreciationExpense — adj612,800
8-9000 R&D salariesExpense — adj742,500
Totals9,723,50012,480,000
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Word, Excel and PowerPoint

Every deliverable, in your firm’s exact look.

Upload your firm’s Word, Excel and PowerPoint templates once. From any brief or research thread, TaxResearch drafts the full deliverable in that template — a memo or letter of advice, a step-by-step restructure plan, a reconciliation workbook, a pitch deck — headings, fonts, footers, brand colour and citation style preserved.

  • Memos, advice, objections and step-by-step restructure plans as Word .docx
  • Reconciliation workpapers, tax calculations and schedules as Excel .xlsx with live formulas
  • Board packs, pitch decks and client-facing summaries as PowerPoint .pptx
  • Same template across every matter — no manual re-formatting
Firm template

Cited research

Thin-cap analysis under Div 820, debt deduction creation rules per TR 2024/D2.

s 820-35s 25-90PCG 2024/3
HENDERSON PARTNERSLetter of Advice

Thin Capitalisation — FY2025

We have considered the application of Division 820 of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 to the Group’s debt deductions for the year ending 30 June 2025.

1. Background

Henderson Partners • Tax AdvisoryPage 1 of 6

Same research, re-flowed into whichever template the firm uses — fonts, brand colour, headings and footer preserved.

The tax corpus

The complete Australian tax research library, already indexed.

Every major Australian tax statute, every ATO ruling type and every relevant Australian court decision — pre-loaded and ready to query. No setup. No imports. No subscription stacking.

Want to research alongside your own files? Upload client precedents, prior advice or engagement memos and TaxResearch will search them in the same query.

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Australian-only sources

8

ATO ruling types covered

Statutes

Tax legislation
ITAA 1936ITAA 1997GST Act 1999FBT Act 1986TAA 1953Superannuation legislation+ more

ATO Rulings

Every ruling type
TRTDGSTRMTLCRPCGPS LAEPBATO IDPrivate Rulings

Case Law

Australian courts
High CourtFederal CourtState Supreme CourtsART Decisions

Your documents

Optional
Client precedentsInternal memosPrior adviceEngagement files

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Ruling
TR 2012/5, at [5].
“Paragraph 202-45(e) of the ITAA 1997 prevents the franking of a distribution paid by a company to its shareholders where that distribution is a reduction or return of share capital.”