Income tax returns, prepared and lodged by a registered tax agent.

What's included

Completed Tax is a registered tax agent. That means we can prepare your income tax returns, lodge them with the ATO for you and deal with the ATO about them on your behalf. Our tax return service includes:

• Your business's income tax return, prepared from your year-end accounts.
• Your own return as the owner, including the income you receive from the business, so the two line up and nothing is missed or counted twice.
• Year-end review. Before anything is prepared, we check that the year's income and expenses are complete and correctly categorised. Most problems at tax time start with records that were never quite finished.
• Lodgement with the ATO. We lodge electronically as your registered tax agent and keep track of when each return is due.
• Clear explanations. We take you through the result before it's lodged: what you owe or what's coming back, why, and when any payment is due.

Clients of a registered tax agent can often lodge later than people who lodge themselves, under the ATO's lodgement program for tax practitioners. We'll tell you exactly which dates apply to you.

Who it suits

Our focus is income tax returns for businesses and their owners. It's a good fit if:

• you'd like your business return and your personal return handled by the same people who understand your books
• you already use our bookkeeping or BAS service, so your year-end figures are ready to go
• your records need tidying before a return can be prepared, and you'd rather someone sorted that properly
• you want straight answers in plain English, not just a figure at the bottom of a page

We work with business owners around Greensborough and across Melbourne's north-east, and lodge returns for clients right across Australia.

How it works

1. A free consultation. We talk about your business, how it's set up, what's been lodged before and whether any returns are outstanding.
2. Gathering information. We give you a clear list of what we need. If we already keep your books, most of it is in hand.
3. Preparation and review. We prepare the returns and go through them with you, answering your questions before anything is lodged.
4. Lodgement. Once you're happy, we lodge with the ATO and let you know what happens next, including any payment dates.

Good records make for a smoother tax return, and year-round bookkeeping means fewer surprises in July. If your books need attention first, we can help with that too, so the return is built on numbers you can trust.