Accounting & Tax Advisory for Individuals, Families & Business Owners

Eternity Group Accountants charges from $550 incl. GST for individual tax returns, from $2,200 incl. GST for company or trust returns, and from $3,300 incl. GST for SMSF compliance. Retainer packages start at $1,000 per month plus GST for Essentials. Every engagement is scoped after a 20-minute scoping call so quotes reflect your actual complexity.

Yes. Rohan Manokaran is a registered Tax Agent with the Tax Practitioners Board (Registration 25523469) and a member of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (CA ANZ member 266544). All returns are prepared and signed under our registered tax agent obligations.

Small business deductions include operating expenses (rent, utilities, software), motor vehicle costs (logbook or cents-per-km), depreciation on assets, home-office expenses, marketing, professional services, insurance, superannuation, and bad debts. Small Business Entities (turnover under $10M) can access instant asset write-off, simplified depreciation, and prepayment concessions. We map every claim to your industry benchmarks.

The answer depends on your marginal tax rate, asset protection needs, succession plans, and whether the property is owner-occupied, investment, or business premises. Companies pay 25%–30% flat but cannot access the 50% CGT discount. Discretionary trusts give flexibility to stream income but cannot distribute losses. We model both scenarios with your actual numbers before you sign anything.

Standard individual returns are typically lodged within 5–10 business days of receiving complete information. Company, trust, and SMSF returns take 2–4 weeks depending on complexity. We provide a fixed timeline at engagement and keep you informed at every stage. Urgent returns are accommodated where possible at no premium.

Yes. While we’re based in Cherrybrook and most of our clients are in the Hills District, we work with clients across greater Sydney, regional NSW, and interstate. Most communication is by phone, email, and video call, with in-person meetings available at our office when needed.

As your registered tax agent, we respond to ATO correspondence on your behalf, prepare position papers, attend interviews if requested, and manage objection and appeal processes. Audit support is included in retainer packages and quoted hourly for one-off clients. Most reviews resolve at the document-request stage when records are well-kept.

Yes. We model the structure against your projected income and goals, register the entity (ABN, TFN, GST if required), draft trust deeds via our solicitor partner, set up Xero, configure ATO portal access, and run the structure for you ongoing. Standard structure set-ups complete within 2–3 weeks from instruction.

Yes — there is no need to wait for 30 June. Switching involves an ethical clearance letter to your previous accountant, adding you to our tax agent list with the ATO, and collecting prior-year returns, depreciation schedules and carried-forward figures so nothing is lost in the handover. We manage each of those steps. If lodgements have fallen behind, we also map what is outstanding and agree a catch-up order before anything is lodged.

For individual tax returns, no software is required — documents through our secure portal are enough. For businesses, we work primarily on Xero and can set up a new file or migrate an existing one. A well-kept cloud file means bank feeds instead of shoeboxes, a live GST position before each BAS, and financials that are ready when a lender or the ATO asks for them. We will not force a conversion where your current records genuinely work.

We do. As your registered tax agent we receive most ATO correspondence through the agent portal — notices of assessment, PAYG instalment notices, lodgement reminders and debt letters. We review each item, action what sits within the engagement (varying instalments where justified, arranging payment plans, requesting remission where grounds exist), and bring anything needing your decision to you with a plain-English explanation.

The first year carries more set-up than any year after it. We obtain ethical clearance from your previous accountant, add you to our tax agent list with the ATO, collect prior returns and carried-forward balances, and map every due date across your entities. Business clients usually have opening balances confirmed in Xero as well. Once the first lodgement round is through, the engagement settles into the ordinary quarterly and annual cadence.

Usually, yes — fee quotes reflect the time an engagement genuinely takes, and a file that needs reconstruction is quoted differently from one that reconciles cleanly. The habits that keep fees down are unglamorous: a dedicated business bank account, receipts captured when the money is spent, private spending kept out of business accounts, and reconciliation queries answered while transactions are still fresh. Where clean-up is needed, we say so at scoping, quote it separately, and fix the underlying habit so it is a one-off cost rather than an annual one.

Yes — SMSF accounting, the annual return and audit coordination with an independent auditor sit in their own section of the practice, scoped separately from personal and business tax work. If your fund and your business or investment affairs sit with the same practice, contribution timing and entity questions get considered together rather than in isolation. Start at our SMSF services page.