Tax accountant for clients across Brisbane and Ipswich

How we work with Brisbane clients

Tax Doctorz works with clients across Brisbane and Ipswich, and across Australia and New Zealand. We do not publish a street address. Meetings happen in person by arrangement, or online. If you work in the city, an online meeting at lunchtime saves the travel.

A tax return or a set of company accounts is built from documents, so where you live in Brisbane changes very little. You can email them, hand them over at a meeting, or send them through the forms on this site. There is no client portal and no e-signature system to learn.

If you live in the western corridor, our areas pages say more about the suburbs there, from Redbank Plains and Goodna out to Springfield Central. If you are on the northside or the bayside, it works the same way.

What a chartered accountant and tax agent does for you

Two credentials sit behind the name. Our principal is a member of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (membership number 2147512) and holds a Certificate of Public Practice, so the practice works to its professional standards. We are also registered with the Tax Practitioners Board as a tax agent, number 26343636. The TPB registration is the one that lets us charge you to prepare and lodge a return: the ATO says only a registered tax agent can do that for a fee, and the ATO's page on using a tax agent explains how to check one.

Individuals and investors

For someone on a salary, the job is an accurate return with the deductions your work supports, and the records the ATO expects you to keep behind each one. For investors it goes further: rental schedules, depreciation and the capital gain when something is sold. Our tax and compliance page covers the returns, and the property investors guide covers rentals in more depth.

Businesses

For a sole trader, partnership, company or trust, the work is the books, GST and BAS, payroll and Single Touch Payroll, the annual return, and the advice that comes before a decision. That might be whether to move from sole trader to a company, how to handle money taken out of a company, or what a large equipment purchase does to this year's tax. Registration for GST becomes compulsory once GST turnover reaches $75,000. We work in Xero, MYOB or QuickBooks, whichever you already use. See accounting and operations and strategic tax advisory.

People with a foot in New Zealand

Australia–New Zealand tax is a specialty of the practice. If you have moved across the Tasman, or still have a rental, a business or a KiwiSaver account on the other side, read moving from New Zealand to Brisbane and the trans-Tasman service.

Queensland taxes a Brisbane client runs into

Income tax works the same in every state. Two Queensland taxes are different: land tax and payroll tax are collected by the Queensland Revenue Office, not the ATO. What follows is general information on the thresholds; exemptions and grouping rules depend on your facts, so get advice before relying on them.

Land tax

Queensland land tax is assessed on the land you own at midnight on 30 June. The figure used is the land's taxable value, worked out from the Valuer-General's annual land valuation. It is generally the lower of this year's valuation and the average of the last three, and it has nothing to do with the price you paid.

An individual is liable once the total taxable value of their Queensland freehold land, including their share of anything owned jointly, is $600,000 or more. Land you use as your home may be exempt. Companies and trustees, including the trustee of a self-managed super fund, start paying at $350,000. That gap is one reason to settle who will own an investment property before you sign the contract.

Land tax on a rental property is generally deductible. The ATO lists it alongside council rates, water rates and loan interest as costs you can claim while the property is held to produce rent.

Payroll tax

Payroll tax applies once an employer's annual Australian taxable wages pass $1.3 million. For a group of related employers the threshold is tested on the group's combined wages. That catches owners who run two or three businesses that are each comfortably under the line on their own. The rate is 4.75% for employers or groups paying $6.5 million or less in Australian taxable wages, and 4.95% above that. The QRO notes you may need to register before you have any liability.

For a growing employer the time to look at it is while a second entity or a round of hiring is still a plan. The federal obligations carry on alongside it. Since 1 July 2026 super guarantee contributions must reach each employee's fund within seven business days after payday, which our note on payday super walks through.

The 31 October line

If you lodge your own return, the usual deadline is 31 October. Most registered agents run a lodgement program that gives their clients a later date, but the ATO is clear that your due date depends on your situation and when you engage the agent. If you are coming to a tax agent for the first time, or changing agents, the ATO says to make contact before 31 October. The full year is laid out on our key dates page.

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