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Trust structures, base-rate entity tests and FBT all handled in-house.","2",{"id":485,"num":486,"numUsd":49,"eyebrow":49,"headline":487,"avatar":49,"body":488,"span":483,"rowSpan":79,"accent":131,"dark":79,"href":49},27826,"TECH","Xero & MYOB specialists.","Xero Certified Advisors and MYOB Partners. Live feeds from major Australian banks. STP-enabled across all client payrolls.",{"id":490,"num":491,"numUsd":49,"eyebrow":49,"headline":492,"avatar":49,"body":493,"span":483,"rowSpan":79,"accent":79,"dark":79,"href":49},27827,"SPEED","Books on the 5th. BAS on time.","5-day month-end SLA and a discipline around BAS deadlines that means missed quarterly filings are not part of our vocabulary.",{"id":495,"num":496,"numUsd":49,"eyebrow":49,"headline":497,"avatar":49,"body":498,"span":483,"rowSpan":79,"accent":79,"dark":79,"href":49},27828,"VALUE","AUD-priced. Fixed monthly fees.","Local AUD pricing. From AUD 760\u002Fmonth. No hourly billing. R&D Tax Incentive support included on Professional and Enterprise tiers.",{"id":500,"quote":501,"name":502,"role":503,"company":49,"avatar":49,"__component":504},2575,"We were paying a Sydney bookkeeper $2k\u002Fmonth for service that lagged six weeks. Accountaire delivers cleaner books, on time, every month, and BAS just happens without us thinking about it.","Director · E-commerce brand","Sydney, NSW","blocks.testimonial",{"id":506,"heading":507,"items":508,"__component":541},1927,"What Australian businesses ask us first.",[509,513,517,521,525,529,533,537],{"id":510,"question":511,"answer":512},12160,"Are you registered as a Tax Agent in Australia?","We operate as a remote bookkeeping and accounting provider with ATO Online Services authorisation through Access Manager. For activities reserved to registered Tax Agents under TASA (specifically the lodgement of certain returns), we coordinate with an Australian-registered Tax Agent partner, at no additional cost to you.",{"id":514,"question":515,"answer":516},12161,"How does Single Touch Payroll Phase 2 affect my business?","STP Phase 2 requires expanded data reporting on every pay event: income type, country code, tax treatment codes, and others. We configure your payroll to STP Phase 2 spec during onboarding, so reporting flows correctly to the ATO every pay run.",{"id":518,"question":519,"answer":520},12162,"What's the difference between base-rate entity and general corporate tax?","Both limbs have to be met, and the passive income limb is the one that catches people: a trading company with a large interest or rent line can drop out of the lower rate in a year when trading dips. The rate also sets the franking percentage, so a company franking at 25 percent that is later assessed at 30 leaves its shareholders short of credits.",{"id":522,"question":523,"answer":524},12163,"Can you handle Australian trust structures?","Yes. Discretionary trusts (family trusts), unit trusts and hybrid trusts are all within scope. We handle annual income distribution resolutions, trustee-level returns, beneficiary K-equivalent statements, and the appropriate tax filings.",{"id":526,"question":527,"answer":528},12164,"How is superannuation guarantee handled?","One day late is late. Miss the quarterly date by any margin and the shortfall becomes the superannuation guarantee charge, calculated on total salary and wages instead of ordinary time earnings, loaded with interest and an administration component, reported on its own statement, and not deductible. We fund the run several days early for that reason. Clearing houses are not instant and the date does not move.",{"id":530,"question":531,"answer":532},12165,"Do you handle the R&D Tax Incentive?","Yes. Registration with AusIndustry is a separate step from the tax return, with its own deadline after year-end, and missing it costs the whole year. The usual mistake is claiming a whole project rather than the experimental part of it. For software, AusIndustry expects a documented hypothesis and a recorded result, so the engineering write-up has to exist before the claim, not after.",{"id":534,"question":535,"answer":536},12166,"Can you work with my existing Australian Tax Agent?","Plenty of clients keep their existing Tax Agent for the annual returns and bring us in for bookkeeping, BAS, STP payroll and management accounts. Each year your Tax Agent receives a clean trial balance and the workpapers sitting behind it.",{"id":538,"question":539,"answer":540},12167,"How do you handle FBT?","FBT returns are prepared annually based on benefits provided during the FBT year (1 April to 31 March). We track reportable benefits (motor vehicles, expense payments, entertainment, loans) through the bookkeeping cycle and file the return alongside the supporting workpapers by the May deadline.","blocks.faq",{"id":543,"cta":544,"__component":549},2226,{"id":543,"eyebrow":545,"heading":546,"body":547,"primaryLabel":548,"primaryHref":323,"secondaryLabel":49,"secondaryHref":49,"dark":79},"For Australian SMEs","Want Australian accounting done properly?","Thirty minutes on a call. Written, fixed-fee proposal within 24 hours. ATO authorisation set up in onboarding.","Book an Australian accounting call","blocks.cta-banner"]