Milkias Gebreyesus

Tax sits where legal obligation meets business strategy. For Milkias, that intersection has defined a career, and it still does.

With a Bachelor of Commerce and Laws with Distinction from Deakin University, he is both a CPA and a dual-qualified Solicitor. It’s a rare combination in an Australian tax practice, and a deliberate one. Complex matters involving trust structures, estate planning, or business acquisitions are handled in a single, cohesive engagement, no hand-offs, no gaps, no translating between advisers who speak different languages.

Over seven years across audit, compliance, and advisory, he has worked with Australian business owners, SME operators, SMSF trustees, and professionals in medicine, law, and the trades, people building wealth alongside their practice, not separate from it. That breadth of experience across industries and structures means most situations aren’t unfamiliar territory.

The work centres on tax advisory, SMSF advice, and business succession planning, disciplines that sit naturally at the intersection of accounting and law. Many clients arrive having grown quickly without a considered structure. What started as a simple setup has outgrown itself, and now comes with unnecessary tax exposure, personal liability, or both. The work is to establish the right entity architecture, efficient profit extraction, and long-term asset protection before those problems compound further.

Outside of client work, the same discipline applies. Consistent weight training, active investing across Australian equities and digital assets, and building technology to make professional services more intelligent and efficient. It’s the profile of someone who thinks in systems, which is exactly how complex tax and succession problems get solved.

The advice is direct: don’t confuse compliance with planning. Lodging on time satisfies the ATO. The real work, timing income, structuring trust distributions, reviewing your entity setup before EOFY, belongs in April, not June. Clients who engage early leave more on the table. Those who wait until June rarely do.

The moment a client sees their financial position with genuine clarity, when the complexity lifts and decisions come easier, that’s what this work is for. It hasn’t lost its meaning after seven years. That’s probably the best endorsement of all.