Tax help

Help for your situation, your work and your suburb.

Plain answers from a registered tax agent — the situations, occupations and places we are asked about most. Every page reflects the same discipline: nothing is lodged without the evidence behind it.

Who we help

Occupations and industries whose tax profiles we know well.

Tradies

Apprentices, subcontractors and crews. Tradie returns carry some of the highest deduction claims the ATO sees — which is exactly why yours should be the one with the receipts behind it.

Doctors & medical

Registrars, locums and private practitioners. Medical incomes draw more ATO attention, not less — so every figure on your return should carry its evidence.

Nurses & midwives

Shift allowances, overtime, agency work across multiple payers — nursing pay is complicated before tax even starts. We report it correctly and substantiate what you claim.

Teachers & educators

Classroom costs out of your own pocket, working-from-home hours, study that never stops — teaching generates real claims. We substantiate them so they hold.

IT contractors

Day rates through a company or an ABN, overseas clients, a home office that is genuinely an office. The structure questions have answers — ours go on file in writing.

Uber & rideshare

Driving for a platform makes you a business, whether or not it feels like one. The platforms report their data to the ATO — we prepare returns that agree with it.

Real estate agents

Commission that swings quarter to quarter, a car that earns its keep, marketing spend with your face on it. We substantiate the claims and plan the instalments — before either becomes a problem.

Builders & construction

Builders run a business inside a trade — progress claims, retentions, subcontractors, structures. We keep the business side in order, with the records and the reasoning on file.

Cafés & restaurants

Cafés and restaurants run on small transactions and long days. The ATO reads them through patterns — so the strongest position is takings that reconcile and records that answer.

Property investors

One property or a portfolio, the discipline is the same: interest apportioned on workings, depreciation carried correctly, and every year's file kept — because the year you sell, every earlier year gives evidence.

Crypto investors

The exchanges report; the ATO matches. What most crypto holders lack is not honesty — it is a consolidated history. We rebuild it, establish the cost bases and keep the workings.

Truck drivers

Employee drivers and owner-drivers live different tax lives, and the ATO reads both closely. We prepare returns where the claim matches the method, and the method matches the records you actually keep.

NDIS support workers

Many NDIS support workers are, in effect, small businesses — platform statements, invoices, an ABN and a car that works between clients. We keep that side reconciled, documented and planned.

Situations we sort out

From overdue lodgments to ATO letters — handled with the file in order.

Late tax returns

People fall behind for ordinary reasons — illness, a business under pressure, records that scattered. The fix is not heroic. It is methodical, and it starts with knowing exactly where you stand.

Years behind on tax

Five years, ten, more. Deep arrears feels bottomless because it has never been measured. We measure it, rebuild each year from records that still exist, and lodge — oldest first — until you are current.

ATO reviews & audits

A review or audit letter is not an accusation — it is a request to show your workings. The mistake is answering fast instead of answering well. We build the evidence file first, then respond.

ATO payment plans

Whether the bill has arrived or is still forming, the path is the same: confirm the real number, propose what your cash flow can keep, and stay current while it runs. We manage each step with the ATO.

Fixing a lodged return

Errors and omissions happen — data matching finds them, honesty finds them sooner. A correction lodged properly, with the evidence retained, turns a worry back into an ordinary tax matter.

CGT on property

The sale price is public. The cost base — purchase records, improvements, holding costs, use history — is yours to prove. We assemble that side, answer the exemption questions in writing, and lodge a figure that withstands review.

Rental property returns

Rental deductions draw standing ATO attention. The answer is not caution — it is records: interest apportioned and documented, repairs decided on facts, depreciation on proper schedules, and every figure traceable.

Sole traders

Nothing is withheld from ABN income. The tax still arrives — as a bill, at lodgment — unless someone has planned for it. We prepare sole trader returns from reconciled records and tell you what is coming before it comes.

Company tax returns

A company return is a reconciliation, not a form. We take the accounting profit, adjust it to taxable income with each step documented, and keep the workings — so every figure lodged can be traced back to the ledger.

Trust tax returns

A trust distributes what its deed allows, to whom it allows, decided when the rules require. We read the deed, resolve distributions in time, and lodge returns the whole family's file agrees with.

BAS & GST

A bank feed is a list of transactions. A BAS is a set of declarations. The distance between the two is reconciliation — and it is the step most lodgments skip. We do not.

Foreign income & residency

Whether Australia taxes your worldwide income turns on tests applied to facts — where you live, what you keep here, what you intend and can show. We work through the tests, document the answer, and prepare the returns that follow from it.

Where we work

Based in Brisbane's centenary suburbs — serving every Australian state by phone and video.

Mount Ommaney

TaxProof runs from Mount Ommaney in Brisbane's centenary suburbs. A local practice with one discipline: every figure we lodge carries its evidence.

Centenary suburbs

Jindalee, Sinnamon Park, Westlake, Middle Park, Riverhills, Jamboree Heights, Seventeen Mile Rocks — we are based among them, and we prepare returns that can be shown, not just lodged.

Brisbane

From Mount Ommaney in the city's south-west, we prepare returns for Brisbane's businesses, professionals and investors — with the file ready before the ATO asks.

Oxley

Workshops, trades and small businesses along the south-west corridor — Oxley's work is practical, and its tax should be too. We are minutes away in Mount Ommaney, and we prepare returns that can be shown, not just lodged.

Forest Lake

Families, first investment properties and side ABNs. Forest Lake's tax questions are ordinary ones — which is no reason to answer them casually.

Australia-wide

Tax law is federal; your accountant's postcode is irrelevant to the ATO. We run engagements for clients in every Australian state — by phone, video and secure portal, from our Brisbane base.

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