For Business · Compliance
Business Activity Statements
BAS prepared and lodged accurately, on time, every time, by registered tax agents who already know your books.
Overview
Leave your BAS to the experts
Spending hours reconciling invoices and receipts before every Business Activity Statement? Preparing and lodging a BAS is time-consuming, and the rules around GST, PAYG withholding and PAYG instalments change more often than most business owners realise. Get it wrong and the ATO applies penalties and interest. Get it late and you lose the credit for lodging through a registered agent.
Tax Visory takes the whole process off your desk. We prepare your BAS from your live accounting data, review it for errors and missed credits, and lodge it with the ATO under our registered tax agent number, which also gives you access to extended lodgement dates.
How we help
- 01
BAS preparation from your software
Xero, MYOB or QuickBooks. We reconcile, code and review before anything is lodged.
- 02
GST review and error correction
Missed input tax credits, incorrectly coded transactions and prior-period adjustments identified and fixed.
- 03
PAYG withholding and instalments
Reported correctly alongside your GST, with instalment variations where cash flow justifies it.
- 04
Lodgement with the ATO
Lodged electronically under our tax agent registration, with extended due dates where eligible.
- 05
ATO correspondence handled
We deal with the ATO on your behalf, including payment plans if you fall behind.
Resources
Key dates and obligations
- 28 Oct
- Q1 BAS due (Jul–Sep)
- 28 Feb
- Q2 BAS due (Oct–Dec)
- 28 Apr
- Q3 BAS due (Jan–Mar)
- 28 Jul
- Q4 BAS due (Apr–Jun)
Monthly lodgers report by the 21st of the following month. Lodging through a registered tax agent generally extends quarterly due dates by four weeks. We confirm your cycle and dates at onboarding.
Behind on your BAS?
We can bring overdue lodgements up to date and negotiate with the ATO on your behalf.
FAQ
Business Activity Statement questions
A Business Activity Statement is the form GST-registered businesses use to report and pay GST, PAYG withholding, PAYG instalments and certain other obligations to the ATO.
If you are registered for GST you must lodge a BAS for every period, even one where you traded nothing. Registration is compulsory once turnover reaches $75,000 in a twelve-month period. Businesses with PAYG withholding or instalment obligations may also need to lodge.
If your bookkeeping is with us, nothing. Otherwise we need bank feed access, your sales and purchase records for the period, and payroll reports. Photographs of receipts loaded into your accounting software are enough.
Usually yes. Most GST errors under the ATO correction limits can be adjusted in your next BAS rather than by revising the original. Larger or older errors need a revision, which we prepare and lodge for you.
Lodge on time anyway, then deal with the payment. Late lodgement attracts penalties on top of interest. We negotiate payment plans with the ATO on your behalf, which are far easier to obtain while your lodgements are up to date.
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No obligation. We’ll review where you are and tell you what we’d do.
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