Tax Accountant for Sydney

Yes. The office is in Cherrybrook in Sydney's north-west, but returns are prepared, reviewed and lodged digitally, so the work reaches clients right across greater Sydney — the inner west, the east, the north shore, the south and the western suburbs. Appointments can be in person at the Cherrybrook office, by phone or by video. As a registered Tax Agent (TPB 25523469) lodging through Online Services for Agents, your physical postcode does not change what we can do — it only changes where we meet if you prefer to meet face to face.

Same Chartered Accountant, different framing. The Cherrybrook and Hills District pages are for people searching for a tax accountant in their own suburb who want a local, in-person relationship close to home. This Sydney page is for the broader audience — someone anywhere in greater Sydney choosing a CA-led practice and happy to work mostly remotely. If you are specifically Hills-local and want the suburb detail, the Hills District page is the better read; the difference is reach, not service.

Individual returns including rental schedules, share and managed-fund income, foreign income and capital gains events; company returns with financial statements, franking and base-rate-entity treatment; discretionary and unit trust returns with the distribution paperwork; partnership returns; and SMSF annual returns. Business activity statements and instalment activity statements sit alongside the income-tax work for business clients. The work is prepared in-house under registered Tax Agent obligations rather than passed to an unrelated processing pool.

The accounting and the lending are kept as separate engagements, but having one practice see both sides is useful. Your tax position — how income is declared, what is added back, how a structure is treated — is the same information a lender assesses for serviceability. We can prepare your returns with that in mind, and where a finance decision is in play, point you to our broking side. Any loan approval depends on the lender’s assessment, their lending criteria and your circumstances; nothing here is a credit offer.

Indicative starting points: individual returns from $550 incl. GST; company or trust returns from $2,200 incl. GST; SMSF compliance from $3,300 incl. GST. These are floors, not the final number. Every engagement is quoted in writing after a short scoping call, because a single PAYG return and a trust with multiple beneficiaries and a CGT event are very different jobs. The fees page sets out how scope is built so you are not surprised at invoice time.

Standard individual returns are typically lodged within 5 to 10 business days of receiving complete information. Company, trust and SMSF returns usually take two to four weeks, depending on complexity and whether financial statements are needed first. Turnaround and a milestone checkpoint are both set at engagement, so you always know where your return sits. ATO prefill is reconciled against your own records before anything is lodged, because prefill is routinely incomplete in June and July.

It 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, depreciation schedules, 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 anything out first. We reconcile what we receive before relying on it, so nothing carried over is taken on trust.

No — everything here is general information only, not personal tax advice. The right treatment of income, deductions, a structure or a capital gain depends on your circumstances and current law, which changes. Rohan Manokaran scopes each engagement individually before any position is taken. Use this page to understand how the practice works, then book a scoping call so the advice you act on is built around your actual facts rather than a general guide.