Tax Accountant Cherrybrook for Individuals, Families & Business Owners

It means the person signing your lodgement is bound by the Tax Practitioners Board's Code of Professional Conduct. Rohan Manokaran is a Chartered Accountant (Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (CA ANZ) 266544) and a registered Tax Agent (TPB 25523469). In practice that gives you three things a non-agent cannot: lawful access to lodge through Online Services for Agents, the agent lodgement program (later due dates than self-lodgers), and a professional standard you can hold the preparer to if something is wrong.

Switching is light work for you. You sign an engagement letter and an authority for us to contact your previous agent; we request the prior-year return, the depreciation schedules, any carried-forward losses, the franking account balance and the relevant workpapers; and we connect you in the ATO portal as your tax agent. You do not need to "close out" anything first. We reconcile what we receive against ATO prefill before we start so nothing carried over is taken on trust.

It is principal-led and single-office. The person who scopes your engagement, prepares the return and signs the lodgement is Rohan Manokaran — not a rotating returns-prep team. That is a deliberate trade-off: a larger firm has more hands and longer opening hours, but you get continuity, one point of accountability, and direct access to the Chartered Accountant who knows your file. For most Cherrybrook individuals, families and small businesses that continuity is the thing that was missing.

Indicative fees: individual returns from $550 incl. GST; company or trust returns from $2,200 incl. GST; SMSF compliance from $3,300 incl. GST. These are starting points, not the final number. Every engagement is quoted in writing after a short scoping call so the price reflects your actual complexity — a single PAYG return and a trust with three beneficiaries and a CGT event are not the same job. See the fees page for how scope is built.

Individual returns (including rental schedules, share and managed-fund income, and CGT events), company returns with financial statements, discretionary and unit trust returns with distribution paperwork, partnership returns, and SMSF annual returns. BAS and IAS for business clients sit alongside the income-tax work. All of it is prepared in the Cherrybrook office rather than outsourced.

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 and whether financial statements are needed first. Turnaround and a milestone checkpoint are both set at engagement, so you are never left guessing where your return sits.

No. The office is in Cherrybrook and many clients are local, but returns are prepared and lodged digitally, so distance is not a constraint. The appointment can be in person at the Cherrybrook office or by phone or video. The location page covers the office, parking and getting there in detail.