Bookkeeping and payroll for Canberra businesses.

The tax-free threshold fell from $2 million to $1.75 million a year, and the rate for employers with Australia-wide wages up to $20 million fell from 6.85% to 6.75%. A business with wages in that gap may now owe tax. Visory keeps payroll reconciled to the books, so each return draws on the same wages.

Visory’s head office is in Melbourne and our team works across Australia, so we support businesses in Canberra as we do everywhere else. A Canberra business gets a dedicated team you know by name, who keep the books and run payroll inside your own Xero, MYOB or QuickBooks file and meet you by video call. Your records stay in your file, which you can open at any time.

Your team works 9am to 5pm Melbourne time, all year round, on business days. In Canberra that is 9am to 5pm all year, because Canberra and Melbourne change their clocks for daylight saving together. Outside those hours, the Visory platform is your 24/7 access point, so your books and payroll information are there whenever you need them.

Yes. Bookkeeping and payroll happen in your accounting and payroll software, not in an office, so a remote team can keep a Canberra business current. What matters is that the team knows ACT rules on payroll tax, long service leave and public holidays, and that you know who they are. You speak by video call.

Visory charges one flat monthly fee for the scope we agree, with no hourly billing and no timesheets. The fee reflects the services you take, from bookkeeping and payroll to Insights, and the volume of work in your business. You get the quote in writing after a discovery call, so you know the monthly cost before you start.

Yes. Your team works inside your own Xero, MYOB or QuickBooks file, for the books and for payroll, so nothing has to move to a new system. Pay runs are reported through Single Touch Payroll from that file, and super is calculated with every pay run. Delphi AI, overseen by your team, is there if you choose it.

Yes. Visory is a registered BAS agent, so your team prepares your business activity statement from reconciled books and lodges it with the ATO for you. The GST and PAYG withholding figures come from the same Xero, MYOB or QuickBooks file your team keeps current every month. Payroll tax and workers compensation returns work differently: they draw on reconciled payroll.

Employees earn about 6 weeks of paid leave after 7 years of continuous service, and pro rata leave can be payable from year five when employment ends in set circumstances, earlier than in most states. Community sector, cleaning, security and construction employers report to portable schemes run by ACT Leave and pay a quarterly levy on wages.

Yes. Your team runs one payroll across the border, with each employee on the right public holidays and long service leave rules. Payroll tax is worked out in each jurisdiction, and a business with wages in both shares each threshold between them. Every return draws on the same reconciled wages as your books.

Visory has no standalone CFO offer: that work sits inside Visory Insights, which gives you monthly plain-English reporting and structured sessions with a named Business Performance Partner, which covers what many growing businesses look for when they search for a virtual CFO. For a business paid on government contracts, that means contract timing, milestone invoices and wages read together.