Tax and compliance
Beyond BAS: from compliance to better financial visibility
How to prepare and lodge your BAS, the due dates and common mistakes, and how to read your BAS for insight into your business.
Tax and compliance
Stay across your tax obligations.
Plain-English guides to BAS, PAYG instalments, deductions, and record keeping for Australian businesses. Rules change, so check the date on each guide.
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Tax and compliance
Beyond BAS: from compliance to better financial visibility
How to prepare and lodge your BAS, the due dates and common mistakes, and how to read your BAS for insight into your business.
Jack Bickersteth
11 min read -
Tax and compliance
Can you claim tax deductions without receipts?
When you can claim work-related deductions without receipts up to 2025–26, and how the $1,000 standard deduction changes the rules from 1 July 2026.
The Visory Team
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Tax and compliance
EOFY survival guide for creative agencies: the most commonly forgotten financial tasks
The year-end tasks creative agencies most often miss, from unbilled work and prepayments to the TPAR test and next year's forecast.
Stacey Walsh
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Tax and compliance
Work-related travel expenses: how to track them and what to claim for your business
What Australian businesses can and can't claim for business travel, the records and travel diary the ATO expects, and how allowances and FBT fit in.
The Visory Team
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Tax and compliance
A back-office guide for NDIS compliance
The back-office side of NDIS compliance: registration, audits, worker screening, billing and claims, and the financial records that support them.
Daniel Carrasco
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Tax and compliance
Small business income tax offset guide
Who can claim the small business income tax offset of up to $1,000, how the ATO calculates it, and how an offset differs from a deduction.
The Visory Team
6 min read -
Tax and compliance
Everything you should know about PAYG instalments
How PAYG instalments work in Australia: who enters automatically, how to start voluntarily, due dates, and how they differ from PAYG withholding.
The Visory Team
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Tax and compliance
How much can you claim for laundry and work clothing?
What employees can claim for work clothing and laundry in Australia, how much per load, and the records the ATO needs, including the 2026–27 changes.
The Visory Team
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Tax and compliance
Can bookkeepers lodge tax returns?
Only a registered tax agent can lodge income tax returns for a fee. Here is what bookkeepers, BAS agents and accountants can each do in Australia.
The Visory Team
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Tax and compliance
Guide to lodging taxes for small businesses
How sole traders, partnerships and companies in Australia lodge their tax returns, with self-lodgment and tax agent due dates.
The Visory Team
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Tax and compliance
Are bookkeeping fees tax deductible?
When bookkeeping and tax agent fees are tax deductible for an Australian business, and the rules that changed for ATO interest and card fees.
The Visory Team
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Tax and compliance
Why is poor bookkeeping a tax liability?
How inaccurate books lead to tax problems for Australian businesses, from penalties and interest to missed deductions, and how good records prevent them.
The Visory Team
4 min read
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