The national rules, in brief. Tax and BAS agents register with the Tax Practitioners Board wherever they practise, so an Adelaide firm has the same obligations as one in Perth or Melbourne. Our page for Perth accountants walks through the client information requirement in section 45 of the 2024 Code Determination, and our Melbourne page covers the registered tax practitioner symbol. In short, the TPB's own example of meeting that requirement includes publishing the information on the website you use to promote your services, as well as in engagement letters and its client factsheet.
RevenueSA and its July changes. State taxes here are collected by RevenueSA, and land tax thresholds are adjusted each year in line with site values. The 2026-27 thresholds were published in the Government Gazette on 4 June 2026 and apply from 1 July, after an average site value change of 12.44 per cent; the general threshold is now $936,000. Land held on trust is assessed separately from the trustee's own land, and unless the trust meets RevenueSA's criteria for the general rates, it's taxed on the trust scale, which starts at $25,000. Trustees also have to tell RevenueSA within one month of a trust acquiring land. On payroll tax, an employer paying wages in South Australia must register once its Australia-wide taxable wages exceed the 1.5 million dollar annual threshold. And for contracts from 6 June 2024, eligible first home buyers get full stamp duty relief on a new home, an off-the-plan apartment or vacant land to build on, whatever its value; an established home doesn't qualify.
Wine and farm clients. Wine Australia's National Vintage Report 2026 puts South Australia's crush at about 658,000 tonnes, more than half the national total of 1.27 million tonnes and the largest of any state, with the Riverland the largest inland region. Winemakers bring wine equalisation tax with them, and the ATO's maximum producer rebate a winemaker can claim each financial year went up on 1 July 2026, from 350,000 to $400,000. If growers and winemakers are a real part of your client list, name the regions you cover, whether that's the Barossa Valley, McLaren Vale, the Adelaide Hills, the Clare Valley, Coonawarra or the Riverland, and say how you meet clients during vintage.
Suburbs, country towns and languages. At the 2021 Census almost four out of five South Australians lived in Greater Adelaide, so a city practice can draw clients from Mawson Lakes in the City of Salisbury, Glenelg in Holdfast Bay or Mount Barker in the Hills, while clients in country towns may only ever deal with you by phone and video. Name your office suburb and the areas you see people in person, then explain how regional clients work with you. The same Census found that, after English, the languages most used at home in the state were Mandarin, Italian, Greek and Vietnamese, so if someone in your practice works in one of them, that line belongs near the top of the page.
Working with us. We're at Ste 3/110 Hutt St, Adelaide. Most of our projects run by phone and email, local ones included, which suits partners who can't spare an hour between client meetings; if your practice would rather sit down with us before work starts, that can be arranged. Simple Engineers, shown below, is the closest of our South Australian clients to an accounting practice: a professional service whose quote form shows an estimated fee range before anyone sends an enquiry.