Websites for Canberra tax agents, BAS agents and accounting practices, built by our Adelaide team by phone and email. Public servants, agency contractors and families on overseas postings can each find the page that describes them, existing clients reach your portal in one tap, and new ones can book a first meeting.
About 35% of the Australian Public Service works in Canberra, according to the APSC, so many of the people looking for an accountant here work for the Commonwealth, directly or under contract. A site that names those situations reads as written for this city.
APS levels, a PSS or CSS pension, the PSSap, a posting coming up: a Canberra client often arrives with a vocabulary of their own. If government employees are a real part of your book, a page describing what you do for them, in the words they use, shows you've done it before. You supply the substance; we arrange it so that page sits one tap from the menu.
If your clients include IT, policy or project contractors working inside Commonwealth departments through a recruitment or labour-hire firm, the personal services income rules will be at the centre of their questions. Give that work a heading and a page of its own, and link to the ATO's explanation of how getting work through an agency affects the personal services business tests.
A DFAT officer three years into a posting, or the spouse who went too, can't drop papers at reception. Spell out how you work with clients overseas: email, video meetings, your document portal, and the hours you answer in Canberra time. A line saying you handle the residency questions a posting raises tells them they've found the right firm.
Xero's partner program has partner, bronze, silver, gold and platinum levels, and bronze and above include a listing in its advisor directory. If you hold a status, we place the badge image you use for it, sized so it doesn't compete with your own logo, and link it to your directory listing so a business owner choosing an accountant by software can check it. Any other software partner badge gets the same treatment.
Put a Client login button in the header of every page, and the same link on the contact page, so an existing client looking for the portal where they sign and upload documents finds it without emailing you. We link to the portal you already use rather than building document handling into the site, which keeps tax file numbers and payslips out of website forms.
A client with a desk job in Barton or Woden may only be free before nine, at lunch or on a video call from work. If you use Calendly, Microsoft Bookings or a practice tool with its own booking page, we link it from every page, with a line on how long a first meeting runs and whether it's charged. If you'd prefer booking built into the site itself, we quote that separately.
There are no council names to search by in Canberra, so the place names that matter are districts and suburbs: Belconnen, Gungahlin, Tuggeranong, Woden, the Inner North. Name your own suburb and the districts you see people from, plus Queanbeyan, Jerrabomberra or Googong if you act for clients over the border, where land tax and payroll tax are administered by Revenue NSW.
Registration, in brief. Tax and BAS agents in the ACT register with the Tax Practitioners Board under the same national law that applies to practitioners in Hobart, Darwin or Perth. Our page for Perth accountants sets out the client information the TPB expects you to give current and prospective clients, and our Sydney accountants page explains the registered tax practitioner symbol. What follows is the part that belongs to Canberra.
A city that works for the Commonwealth. The Australian Public Service Commission counted 198,529 APS employees at 30 June 2025, and 70,221 of them, or 35.4%, were located in the national capital. For a Canberra practice, that means many prospective clients are public servants, and some others contract to the agencies that employ them. For contractors, the questions usually turn on personal services income, which the ATO describes as income produced mainly from an individual's own skills or efforts. Its guidance says that someone who gets work through a labour-hire firm or other agency most likely won't pass the results test, and that for the 80% rule the agency, not the department where they work, is the source of the income. A contractor placed through one agency only can't self-assess under the other personal services business tests, so the PSI rules apply unless the ATO has made a determination. A page that names this work, and links to the ATO for the detail, speaks directly to the people who need it.
Postings and the superannuation test. The ATO has a residency test designed for Australian government employees at posts abroad, such as Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade officials. Under it, a contributing member of the Public Sector Superannuation Scheme (PSS) or the Commonwealth Superannuation Scheme (CSS) is an Australian resident for income tax purposes, and so are their spouse and any children under 16. The test doesn't apply to members of the PSSap, and the PSS and CSS are both closed to new members, so two colleagues sharing a posting can be in different positions. If postings are part of your work, the site can say so, explain how clients overseas deal with you and link to the ATO's page; the advice itself belongs in your engagement, not on a web page.
One government, one revenue office. Canberra has no council or mayor. The Legislative Assembly and the ACT Government look after local matters as well as territory ones, so general rates, land tax and payroll tax all come from the ACT Revenue Office. Land tax here applies to residential property that isn't the owner's principal place of residence: rented and vacant homes, a rented granny flat on the owner's block, and property owned by a corporation or a trustee. Commercial property isn't subject to it, and an owner has 30 days to notify the Revenue Office once a property becomes liable. Payroll tax changed on 1 July 2026, when the annual threshold dropped from $2 million to $1.75 million and the rate became tiered by Australia-wide wages, from 6.75% up to $20 million to 8.75% above $150 million. A practice that registers employers for payroll tax, or helps investors and trustees with land tax, can give each its own heading and send readers to the Revenue Office for current figures.
Districts, the border and working with us. The ACT's planning system groups the city into districts including Belconnen, Gungahlin, Inner North and City, Inner South, Woden, Weston Creek, Molonglo Valley, Tuggeranong and East Canberra. Name the ones you draw clients from, along with your own suburb. Across the border, the Queanbeyan-Palerang Regional Council area lies between 10 and 100 kilometres east of the Canberra CBD, takes in Queanbeyan, Jerrabomberra, Googong and Bungendore, and had about 67,600 residents in 2025 by the ABS estimate. We're an Adelaide team at Ste 3/110 Hutt St and work with Canberra practices by phone and email. Adelaide runs half an hour behind Canberra all year round, and our current clients are in SA, NSW, VIC and QLD, none of them in the ACT.
Neither of these clients is in the ACT or is an accounting practice; we show them for features a practice can borrow. Resolve Forward ties priced packages to online booking, and Dr Tabara Dione's site keeps a discovery-call booking on every page alongside an about page covering her credentials. The review below comes from an accounting firm we built a website for.
A Sydney practice in family law dispute resolution. The site has six service pages, priced packages linked to online booking, and a five-step intake form for new clients. A practice can use the same pattern for a fixed-fee first meeting, or for an intake form that a contractor fills in before setting up a company.
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A Melbourne specialist anaesthetist who coaches other doctors one on one, in confidence. Her about page covers her credentials and a discovery-call booking is linked from every page, a layout that suits a principal whose name is the reason clients ring.
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“Salem was fantastic to work with on our accounting firm’s website. From day one, he was professional, responsive…”
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$399
A sole tax agent or BAS agent: services, the client groups you look after, TPB details, a client login button and a booking link, all on one page.
Fits most small practices
$899
A home page, a services page with sections for individuals, contractors and employers, and an about page with your people, registrations, partner status and TPB client information.
$1,499
A home page, then pages for public servants, agency contractors, clients on postings and employers facing ACT payroll tax, plus team, client information and contact pages.
Yes. Describe the work in plain terms, say how clients abroad send documents and meet with you, and link to the ATO's page on the superannuation test rather than restating it. Whether a particular client is a resident depends on their scheme and circumstances, which is a matter for your advice, not the website. We arrange the page around the wording you settle.
If registering employers and preparing their returns is work you want, a heading for it with a sentence on who now has to register is worth having, since the ACT threshold fell to $1.75 million from 1 July 2026. Link to the ACT Revenue Office for the rates rather than copying its table. When the figures move again, editing that sentence is a text change covered by the $30 monthly hosting.
Yes, name them. Someone in Jerrabomberra looking for an accountant wants to see that you take NSW clients and know that land tax on NSW property and payroll tax for NSW employers are handled by Revenue NSW, not the ACT Revenue Office. One site covers both: a line on the home page, and a short section on the services page if cross-border work fills a good part of your year.
Yes. Send us the badge image you use for your current status and the address of your advisor directory listing. We place the badge in the footer or on the about page and link it to the listing, so a client can confirm it for themselves. If your status changes, replacing the image is covered by hosting.
By phone and email from start to finish. You send your services, registrations, team photos and the portal and booking links you use; we build a draft and send you the link, you ask for changes until it's right, and you pay once you approve it. Adelaide is half an hour behind Canberra all year, and we reply within 24 hours.
Tell us who your clients are, whether public servants, contractors, employers or families abroad, and which portal and booking tools you use. We'll send a quote, then a draft, and nothing is owed until you approve it.
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