Websites for tax agents, BAS agents and accounting practices across Geelong, the Bellarine and the Surf Coast. Beach-house owners, families buying in the new estates and business clients each land on a page written for them, your registration can be checked in one tap, and existing clients reach your portal from the header.
A Geelong accountant's clients can range from a young family building at Armstrong Creek to a Melbourne couple who keep a weekender at Ocean Grove. They come to your site with different questions, so the pages should separate them instead of listing every service in one long block.
Someone who owns a house at Anglesea or Point Lonsdale, and lives in Melbourne, may ask about three state charges in one go: the short stay levy if they let it out, vacant residential land tax if nobody uses it enough, and ordinary land tax either way. If that's work you take on, give it a page that names each charge and links to the State Revenue Office for the current rules.
Armstrong Creek in the south, and the growth areas planned north and west of the city, are where much of the region's new housing is planned. A page for buyers can set out what you look after, from the grant paperwork to the records for a first investment property later, and a section for the builders and trades putting up the houses can sit beside it.
Plenty of business owners choose an accountant by the software they already run. If you hold a Xero partner status, we put the badge you use in the footer and link it to your listing in Xero's advisor directory, so anyone can confirm it. A MYOB or QuickBooks status gets the same treatment, using the artwork each company supplies.
Beach-house owners based in Melbourne, and business clients down at Lorne or Apollo Bay, seldom want to drive in to sign a return. A Client login button in the header of every page takes them to the portal you already use for signing and uploads, and a booking link offers a phone or video meeting at a time that suits them.
People search by where they live: Lara, Leopold, Drysdale, Ocean Grove, Torquay, Bannockburn or Colac. Name your office suburb, the towns most of your clients come from, and whether you visit the coast in person or look after those clients remotely.
Your TPB registration number and type in the footer of every page, linked to your entry on the TPB Register, plus the client information the TPB expects practitioners to provide. If partners are active in the local CPA Australia or CA ANZ community, a line on the about page says the practice is part of the profession here, not just listed in it.
The rules, briefly. Tax and BAS agents in Geelong register with the Tax Practitioners Board like practitioners anywhere else, and the state taxes clients bring in are administered by Victoria's State Revenue Office. Our Melbourne accountants page covers the TPB's registered tax practitioner symbol and the Victorian land tax changes since 2024, and our Perth accountants page covers the information the TPB expects you to give clients. This section sticks to what's particular to Geelong and the coast.
A coastline of second homes. The City of Greater Geelong's 2023 estimate of the Barwon region's population on a peak weekend, such as New Year, counts 12,950 people staying in holiday homes around Torquay, Jan Juc and Bellbrae, and 10,330 at Ocean Grove. Those houses come with state charges of their own. Since 1 January 2025 the short stay levy (opens in a new tab) has been 7.5% of the total booking fee for a stay of less than 28 consecutive days: the platform pays it on a platform booking, and the owner or tenant pays it on a booking they take directly. Also from 2025, vacant residential land tax applies to residential land anywhere in Victoria rather than only in parts of Melbourne. A holiday home can be exempt when the owner or relatives use it for at least four weeks in the calendar year and the owner's main home, owned or rented, is elsewhere in Australia. The SRO has to be satisfied it's a genuine holiday home, and only one holiday home exemption can be claimed a year. Land tax itself is a separate assessment.
Where the new houses are going. The council describes Armstrong Creek, on the city's southern edge, as the largest contiguous growth area in Victoria, planned for about 22,000 homes and between 55,000 and 65,000 people. To the north and west, the Northern and Western Geelong Growth Areas are expected to house more than 110,000 new residents, which the council calls the largest urban growth project in regional Victoria. Victoria's First Home Owner Grant applies only to new homes, $10,000 for a newly built or never-occupied home valued up to $750,000, so it's a question buyers in those estates are likely to raise. A practice that helps families through a first purchase, and later a first rental property, has an audience here that keeps renewing.
The region and the profession. The G21 alliance joins Greater Geelong with the Surf Coast, Colac Otway, Golden Plains and Queenscliffe councils, and all five are on the SRO's list of regional councils for the lower regional employer rate of payroll tax, something your business clients may ask about. CPA Australia's Geelong branch committee runs local professional development and networking events for members in 40 postcodes, from Little River and Lara to Torquay, Queenscliff, Colac and Bannockburn, which is a fair outline of the area a Geelong practice can expect to draw on.
Working with us. We're an Adelaide team at Ste 3/110 Hutt St and work with Geelong practices by phone and email, half an hour behind you all year. None of our clients is in Geelong; our Victorian client, shown below, is in Melbourne. You send your services, registration details, photos of your people and the portal and booking links you use, and we send back a draft to approve before anything is paid.
We've built a website for an accounting firm, and its review is below. The two sites shown are professional practices with features Geelong accountants tend to ask about: a first meeting booked from any page, and an intake form that gathers the background before anyone picks up the phone.
Our Victorian client: a Melbourne specialist anaesthetist who coaches doctors. Online booking for a discovery call is linked from every page, the same set-up that would let a beach-house owner in Melbourne book a first video meeting with a Geelong practice.
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A Sydney family dispute resolution practice. Its five-step intake form collects the background before a first session, alongside six service pages and FAQs. A first home buyer page could gather the basics of a purchase, such as suburb, budget and whether it's a new build, in the same way.
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$399
A sole tax or BAS agent: services, the towns you cover, TPB details, a client login button and an enquiry form on a single page.
$899
A home page, a services page with sections for individuals, businesses and property owners, and an about page with your people, memberships and TPB client information.
Suits practices with distinct client groups
$1,499
Separate pages for holiday-home owners, first home buyers, business clients and builders, plus home, team, client information and contact pages.
Name them, say you help owners work out whether they apply, and link to the SRO's pages for the rules and rates. A sentence such as “We look after holiday homes on the Bellarine and the Surf Coast, including the short stay levy and land tax” tells an owner they've come to the right place. The detail changes, and the SRO keeps its own pages current, so we'd leave the figures to them.
The website can make it obvious that they can. A line on the holiday-home page saying you work with owners by phone, video and your document portal, a Client login button on every page and a booking link for a first call cover it. The portal stays the one you already use; the site links to it, so tax file numbers and bank statements never go through a website form.
In your words: what you do for a first purchase, how you set the fee, and what happens at the first meeting. Name the suburbs and estates you know, link to the SRO for the First Home Owner Grant rules, and finish with an enquiry form or a booking link. We arrange the page; you supply and approve the wording.
Yes. Send us the badge image for your current status and the address of your listing in Xero's advisor directory, and we'll place the badge and link it to the listing. If your status changes, swapping the image is a change to an existing page, covered by the $30 monthly hosting.
By phone and email throughout. We have no clients in Geelong yet, so the local detail comes from you: the towns you cover, the client groups you want more of and your registration details. We build a draft, you ask for as many changes as you need, and you pay once you approve it. We reply within 24 hours.
Tell us where your office is, which client groups you'd like more of and the portal and booking tools you use now. We'll quote first, build the draft, and you pay only once you've approved it.
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