Key legal question
Whether the 19 June 2009 tax notices were validly served on the taxpayer through the fiduciary
Extracted holding
Yes. The court held that the 1 June 2005 correspondence constituted an election of domicile to the fiduciary, so service on 19 June 2009 was valid.
Extracted reasoning
The taxpayer had already mandated counsel and the fiduciary to handle the tax file. Given the wording and context of the 1 June 2005 letter, the tax authority could understand that further correspondence should be sent directly to the fiduciary.