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Business Registration Services in Australia

Register your business with confidence. Impact Taxation & Financial Services makes business registration in NSW and across Australia simple, clear, and fully compliant.
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What is Business Registration in Australia?

Business registration is the legal process of setting up your business to operate in Australia.

Our business registration service includes:

  • Applying for an Australian Business Number (ABN)
  • Registering a business name or company name
  • Registering for an Australian Company Number (ACN) with ASIC for new businesses
  • Getting a Tax File Number (TFN) if required
  • Setting up for GST and PAYG withholding, if applicable
  • Trust establishment paperwork
  • Fringe Benefits Tax (FBT) advice for employers
  • Integration with accounting software and payroll tools


Learn more about BAS lodgement, payroll and superannuation support, and business tax planning services.

Our team handles the registrations, applications, and documentation for you, so you can focus on growing your business and not getting stuck in admin work. Business types we can help register include:

Sole Trader

The simplest way to start; great for freelancers, tradies, and self-employed professionals. We’ll help register your ABN, business name (if needed), and ensure that you’re set up for GST or PAYG if required.
Learn more about sole traders and freelance tax returns.

Partnerships

Are you running a business with another person? We help you register as a partnership, including TFNs for the business and its partners, and also provide guidance on shared obligations.

Company

Setting up a company involves ASIC registration, director IDs, and a more complex compliance structure. Our team takes care of all documentation and ongoing compliance

Learn more about company tax returns.

Family Trust/Discretionary Trust

Ideal for asset protection and tax distribution. We help you establish a trust structure that suits your goals and register all necessary entities and tax components.

Our Company Business Registration Process

1

Initial Consultation

We’ll discuss your business goals, structure options, and everything you need to complete business registration.

2

Paperwork and Online Submissions

Our team prepares and lodges all required applications — ABN, TFN, GST, ASIC, and other requirements.

3

Confirmation and Next Steps

Once approved, we hand over your business certificates and guide you on tax, bookkeeping, and compliance moving forward.

Why Choose Us and Our Business Registration Service

Starting a business is exciting, but sorting out the paperwork? Not so much. Based in Bankstown, we help clients across Sydney and nationwide register properly online, choose a business structure, and meet all ATO obligations. We’ll help you get it right from day one.
Avoid Mistakes that Delay Setup
Incorrect details and structure choices end in ABN rejections or ASIC delays. We handle the paperwork properly the first time.
Choose the Right Business Structure
Your business structure impacts your tax, legal obligations, and flexibility. We guide you through the pros and cons of each.
Expert Advice After Registering
We offer strategic insight, and not just a registration number. You’ll walk away with a clear understanding of what comes next.
Stay Compliant in the Long-term
We don’t just help with registration and disappear. Our team provides ongoing support for BAS, tax returns, super, and ATO compliance.

Frequently Asked Questions About Business Registration

If you’ve registered a business name, you can download a copy of your registration certificate by logging into your ASIC Connect account. For company registrations, ASIC issues the certificate after successful registration. After we register your business for you, we will provide all relevant certificates directly after approval is complete.
Your business registration number is your Australian Business Number (ABN). If you’ve registered a company, you’ll also have an Australian Company Number (ACN) issued by ASIC. These numbers are important for trading, invoicing, and dealing with the ATO.
Not necessarily. If you’re trading under your own personal name (e.g. John Smith), you don’t need to register a separate business name. But if you’re trading as “Smith Consulting” or anything other than your legal name, registration is required through ASIC.
Most ABNs are issued within minutes, and business name registration is usually confirmed within 1-2 business days. Company registration through ASIC is often completed on the same day. We’ll handle all submissions and keep you updated throughout the process.
After registering, you’ll receive your ABN and business name or company certificate. From there, you may need to register for GST, PAYG, and superannuation depending on your structure. We’ll guide you through all your next steps to stay compliant.

Get Started On Your Business Registration Today

Are you just starting out, or perhaps you’re switching structures? Impact Taxation and Financial Services is here to help. Our business registration service takes care of the setup, so you can focus on taking care of your business.

Contact us today to book your registration and consultation.

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Impact Taxation and Financial Services Pty. Ltd. is a CPA Practice based in the Bankstown area. We are committed to customizing our services to meet your financial needs and help you achieve your visions and goals.

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    10 things you should consider before buying a property

    Are you considering buying a property? Do you know you could miss opportunities to save thousands, or tens of thousands of dollars if you don’t plan well before the purchase?

    Below are a few key considerations:

    1. How should you set up your loan structure? If you don’t have a loan offset account for a rental property, after you make extra payments directly to the loan account, you can only claim interest deduction on the remaining balance of the loan. For tax purposes, this deductible balance can’t be changed even if you redraw the overpaid amount later. A good loan structure could also help you to stabilize interest rate and speed up loan repayment by combining a standard variable loan (with an offset account) and a fix rates account.

    2. Timing of renovation. You might want to do a renovation right after you have bought the rental property. But do you know for any genuine repair & maintenance included in the renovation, you can claim an outright deduction against the rental income when the property is available for rental? If the work is done before the date when the property is available for rental, you can only claim the deduction against future capital gain when the property is sold. Depend on when you are going to sell, it could take years or up to decades before you can claim the deduction.

    3. How should you split ownership? You might want to share the property ownership with a family member. For tax purposes, the percentage of ownership is based on the legal title, regardless of who is paying more on the mortgage. If the property will give you a tax profit, you might want to allocate more
    ownership to the low-income earner to utilize the lower marginal tax rate. If it is giving you a tax loss, you might want to allocate more ownership to the high-income earner to utilize the loss. The goal is for the family to pay minimum tax together.

    4. Should you use a family trust to purchase the property? There are many pros and cons related to a family trust. The advantages include tax savings on rental profit or capital gain, asset protection and succession planning on family wealth. However, family trust can’t distribute losses. All losses are trapped in the trust to be used to offset future trust profit. Therefore, you can’t utilize any rental loss in a trust to offset other income such as salary & wages. Family trusts also attract high accounting fees on initial setup and annual fees on financial statements and tax returns. State governments also charge much higher land tax on family trusts.

    5. Will the income level change in future years for different owners? You might want to forecast the possible income for different owners to understand total tax payment / savings related to the property. This could also impact on your decision making on point 3 and 4 above.

    6. Understand when you can treat your property as main residence to receive an exemption on capital gains tax. When eligible, even if you have received rental income, you could still treat your rental property as main residence and receive the exemption. To be eligible, you will need to treat it as your main residence at the beginning. Please check out this ATO link: Treating former home as main residence.

    7. Decide whether you need to purchase a depreciation report. Most taxpayers don’t know that the depreciation on the building will need to be added back to calculate capital gains tax when the property is sold. When the property is held for more than 12 months, after applying the capital gains tax discount of 50%, it will effectively cut the tax rate by half at the time of sales. This makes depreciation deductions desirable for high income earners. However, for low-income earners it might not be ideal to claim depreciation as a rental deduction since they could be paying more on capital gains tax in the future. It could get more complicated if the property is under joint ownership between high and low income earners.

    8. You might want to consider Centrelink payments for future or existing owners. Most Centrelink payments are income and asset tested. Before attaching a rental property to a family member who is receiving, or plan to receive government benefits, you might want to check the testing thresholds first to see if the Centrelink payment will be impacted. This is also applicable when you are making distributions from a family trust to different family members.

    9. Have you considered using your SMSF (selfmanaged super fund) to make the purchase of a rental property? There are a lot of tax saving opportunities with a SMSF since the income tax rate is only 15%. And the capital gains tax rate is effectively only 10% after factoring in the 1/3 discount. The major downside with a SMSF is normally you can’t get the money out until you retire or on compassionate grounds (SMSF does have more flexibilities compared to normal retail super fund. But the choices are still very limited). It could be expensive to set up and operate a SMSF too. There are also strict legal requirements on the trustees. Penalties on incompliance could be severe. Tax law around SMSF is very complicated too. You will need to find a good tax accountant specialized in SMSF to help you to understand the structure, also do a cost-benefit analysis before setting it up.

    10. Consider internal ownership changes. For your existing rental properties, you can also consider whether you should transfer the ownership between family members, or between different business structures (this is not applicable for SMSF). You might want to do this when the income level changes with family members, or rental property changes between tax profit and loss. Before the change, you need to consider the cost of transfer including capital gains tax, stamp duty, conveyancer fees, etc. Again, a cost-benefit analysis is a must before the change.

    Last but not the least, did you combine all the above strategies and compare your choices? If you haven’t yet, how would you know that you have picked the best strategy to minimize your taxes? We can help you to factor in all considerations, compare different scenarios, also present you with a Property Prepurchase Report with all our findings to help you to make a decision. Contact us today to book in a consultation with an experienced tax accountant!

    IMPORTANT INFORMATION
    This is general advice only and does not consider your financial circumstances, needs and objectives. Before making any decision based on this document, you should assess your own circumstances or seek advice from your financial adviser and seek tax advice from your accountant.

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