Southport is the Gold Coast’s business capital — the legal and professional precinct around the courts, the medical cluster near Gold Coast University Hospital, the CBD office towers and the small businesses that serve them. That mix is our client base: professionals with partnership and trust questions, practices with payroll and structure needs, and families balancing property, super and tax.
Being local matters in practical ways: documents can be dropped in, meetings happen face to face at short notice, and we know the difference between a Scarborough Street lease and a Brickworks one. Parking is easy at our Cloyne Road office, five minutes from the CBD core.
Tax and accounting for Southport professionals
Lawyers, consultants, engineers and medical specialists around the Southport CBD and the courts precinct tend to share the same questions: whether to practise through a company, trust or partnership, how the personal services income rules apply, how to pay themselves in a tax-effective way, and when a service entity makes sense. We set the structure up, keep the books in Xero and plan the tax before 30 June rather than after it.
Practices near Gold Coast University Hospital and the Health and Knowledge Precinct add payroll tax questions on practitioner arrangements and the treatment of service fees. Those are specialist issues in Queensland, and we deal with them alongside the routine work of BAS, payroll and annual accounts.
Small businesses and trades in the 4215
Southport also has a deep base of family businesses, retailers, trades and builders. For construction clients we prepare QBCC annual reports and MFR calculations from the same accounts we keep during the year. For hospitality and retail we focus on payroll compliance, GST and cash flow through the quieter months.
Families, retirees and SMSF trustees
Many Southport households have investment property, a self managed super fund or a family trust, and some have all three. Our tax agents prepare the returns, and our SMSF team handles the fund accounts, audit and lodgement. When the question turns to retirement or investment strategy, licensed financial planners from Navnet FP Pty Ltd work in the same building.
Every service is available to Southport clients: accounting, taxation, SMSF, QBCC reporting, structuring and financial planning.