Pricing

Sometimes, the nature of the service means that we can reliably estimate the time that it will take. In these cases, we perform the service at a standard price. All of our standard prices are listed on a price list. This gives you certainty and absolute peace of mind over your costs.

 
Examples of where this pricing approach might be appropriate include:

• ATO registrations, such as Tax File Number and ABN Applications;


• Structuring tasks, such as establishing companies, trusts and super funds;


• ASIC tasks, such as annual reviews, director appointments and resignations, and  share transfers;


• SMSF tasks, such as trustee changes, commencement of pensions and deed upgrades.

Depending on the service being provided and your individual circumstance, an upfront quote will often be the best way for us to price our services. This gives you certainty and absolute peace of mind over your costs.

Examples of where this pricing approach might be appropriate include: 

• We are providing you with regular services within an agreed scope and you would prefer to pay an annual retainer over the course of a year;

 

• We are providing you with a service that lends itself to being scoped and priced upfront, such as end-of-year tax returns and financial statement preparation.

 

• You have engaged us to perform a task that is large, or could span a significant period of time, and it is important that you have absolute certainty about costs before the work commences. Examples include the valuation of a business, re-structuring, or a private ruling application to the Tax Office; or

 

• You have engaged us to perform a task that involves seeking an outcome of some kind, and you would prefer to have the price of our services fixed, based on the outcome expected to be achieved. Examples of such tasks include submissions to the Tax Office to recover fines and interest.

Sometimes, the very nature of a task will mean it will have an open-ended timeframe or that our level of involvement simply cannot be estimated in advance.

In these types of situations, we will provide our services at hourly rates. Examples of where this pricing approach might be appropriate include:

• Representing you in divorce proceedings, where the extent of our involvement and the timeframes involved are simply not known at the outset;


• Providing you with day-to-day taxation and business advice, where your requirements are not yet known, and neither you or us are in a position to reliably estimate how much advice you'll need;


• Representing you in a tax audit, where the scope of the audit is not clear; and


• Representing you in negotiations for the purchase or sale of a business, where the extent of our involvement will depend on how long the negotiations last.

Even when hourly rates are used, in some cases, we will still be able to provide you with an estimate as to a likely price range.
 
Each of our team members have an hourly rate which is based on their experience, qualifications and market forces. We work on 5 minute blocks of time.
 
We allocate tasks to our team members on the basis of their experience and skills. This means that we can better control your costs by assigning less complex tasks to less senior staff at lesser hourly rates. Regardless of which team member may have been involved, a Director or Client Manager will oversee the outcomes.