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Returns and workpapers prepared for your review.

Also called: Tax Preparer, Tax Associate

From AUD $6 an hourAUD $6-27.50/hr

  • Accounting firms
  • Financial services
  • Xero
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  • Works your hours
  • Philippines hub, 2 to 3 hours behind Sydney
  • Month to month
What your Tax Accountant gets doneSample day
  • Prepares Australian individual, sole-trader, partnershipReturn preparation
  • Prepares BAS and IAS lodgements covering GST, PAYG withholdingPeriodic and indirect tax
  • Builds book-to-tax reconciliationsWorkpapers and reconciliation
  • Self-reviews every return against your firm's checklistQuality and reviewDoing
In your tools
  • Xero Tax
  • Xero Practice Manager
  • MYOB AE / AO Tax
  • IRIS Elements
  • Xero
  • QuickBooks Online

Pick the level. See the price.

AUD $10.50an hourFull time, 38 hours a week, all-in

Level 2 of 4, also called mid-level.Recommended
Even a local mid-level admin costsAUD $31.11/hr
A tested Intermediate Tax AccountantAUD $10.50/hr
60-75% lessBasis: a Seat's hourly price against the hourly wage of a comparable local hire at the same level. Super and on-costs would add to the local cost.

Prepares company, trust and partnership returns, CGT schedules, multi-property rentals.

  • Entity returns ready for review, with full book-to-tax workpapers
  • Trust distribution and Division 7A schedules
  • FBT returns

2-4 years preparing returns in a practice.

How the Intermediate level works

Per hour, all-in: recruiting, testing and management. Prices exclude GST.

What you hand to your Tax Accountant

Tasks

  • Return preparation

    • Prepares Australian individual, sole-trader, partnership
    • Rolls forward prior-year files

  • Periodic and indirect tax

    • Prepares BAS and IAS lodgements covering GST, PAYG withholding
    • Calculates fringe benefits

  • Workpapers and reconciliation

    • Builds book-to-tax reconciliations
    • Prepares Division 7A loan schedules
    • Reconciles returns against ATO pre-fill data, HMRC records and IRS wage

  • Quality and review

    • Self-reviews every return against your firm's checklist
    • Documents assumptions, opens queries and judgement calls

  • Client and authority liaison

    • Drafts clear client query lists for missing or inconsistent information
    • Prepares lodgement and signing packs
    • Logs ATO, HMRC and IRS notices

  • Tax-season capacity

    • Works your firm's lodgement queue in its practice management system
    • Flags at-risk statutory, lodgement program and extension dates

Tested before you meet them

  1. Written English and client queryAll levels30 min
  2. Jurisdiction technical testAll levels45 min
  3. Tax software practicalAll levels60 min
  4. Return preparation work sampleAll levels3 hrs
  5. Seeded-error review exerciseExpert and Specialist60 min
  6. Authority letter and partner escalation role-playIntermediate and up30 min

One score on every profileSample shown

88%

Three checks before your shortlist

  • Skills tested: A skills test for the role, marked by a senior
  • English and comms: written English tested, spoken English checked on a call
  • ID, work history and references: photo ID, past roles and two referees

From booked call to day one

  1. Step 1: Book a demo

    Tell us the role, your hours and your tools.

  2. Step 2: Meet your shortlist

    Their level and hourly price, tested before you meet.

  3. Step 3: Pick your person

    Month to month. We handle the contract, the equipment and the onboarding, and make sure it all runs.

  4. Step 4: They start work

    In your tools, within 12 to 48 hours of a successful interview.

Questions answered

An Intern Tax Accountant is AUD $6 an hour, Intermediate AUD $10.50, Expert AUD $16.50 and Specialist AUD $27.50, full time (38 hours a week). That is all-in: recruiting, testing and management, month to month. Prices exclude GST.

Return preparation, periodic and indirect tax, workpapers and reconciliation and quality and review, run to your priorities. You choose what they own first.

Six practical tests, marked by a senior, including written English and client query, jurisdiction technical test and tax software practical. You see the score before you meet.

Tell us and we replace them free, with a new shortlist of tested people to meet. Seats are month to month with 30 days' notice.

More questions

Within 12 to 48 hours of a successful interview. First you meet your shortlist, interview the people you like and pick your person.

Yes. Your Tax Accountant works your business hours in your time zone and joins your Teams or Slack like anyone else. The hub matched to Australia & NZ clients is in the Philippines, 2 to 3 hours behind Sydney.

Yes, where it helps. Your Tax Accountant works in the AI tools you already use. They use AI for first drafts and routine work, check every output, and follow your AI policy. You can ask for no AI on any task.

An Intermediate Tax Accountant prepares company, trust and partnership returns, CGT schedules, multi-property rentals. An Expert Tax Accountant handles complex groups, foreign income, CGT concessions, trust distribution issues, amended returns. We usually recommend Intermediate.

It stays under your rules: your admin settings and AI policy apply. Our talent rules ban client data in personal or free AI accounts, and passwords, card numbers, health details and ID numbers never go into any AI tool.

You direct the work day to day. We handle recruiting, equipment and quality checks.

Yes. Every Tax Accountant is tested live in the tools on your job description, such as Xero Tax and Xero Practice Manager, before you meet them.

In week one: grant a user seat in your firm's tax software and practice management system; hands over your firm's preparation checklists, workpaper templates, naming conventions; and walk through the lodgement calendar, internal due dates and how job status. You agree the first priorities with them on day one.

Yes. It's also called Tax Preparer and Tax Associate. Same tasks, tests and prices, whatever the name.

Their written English, with a scored test, and their spoken English, on a call with us. We also check their ID, work history and references.

Yes. You meet your shortlist on a short call and pick the person you want. Nobody joins without your yes.

In our talent hubs in the Philippines, Vietnam, Kenya, Nigeria, Brazil and Colombia, and we hire from 60+ countries. Wherever they are, they work your hours.

Pay only for the hours they work. All your Seats are on one bill, and Studio plans are billed monthly.

It can, at most once a year. Your person's hourly rate may rise by up to 5% a year, from the first anniversary of the Seat's start, with 60 days' notice and the right to end the Seat before it applies.

Only when you and your person both agree to it in advance. Otherwise they work the hours you set, and you pay for the hours they log.

You aren't charged for hours your person doesn't work, apart from paid leave. After their third month, your person earns 8 hours of paid leave a month. Paid leave hours are charged at their usual rate.

Your person logs their hours each day in the Get Hands client app, where you can see them. Your next invoice is adjusted to those hours.

Yes, with no minimum hours. From 20 to 37 hours a week, the hourly rate is 10% higher than full-time. Under 20 hours, it's 20% higher.

Yes. Tell us the roles on a call and we shortlist tested people for each.

Yes. You give them access in your own systems, and you can change or remove it at any time.

They get their own login in each of your systems, never a shared one. Any password that has to be shared goes through your own password manager, never email, chat, code or prompts.

A tested shortlist within 72 hours of your call, or your first week is free. That's part of The Right Hands Guarantee.

Yes. Call us on +61 3 4421 6491, or choose Talk now on the booking form for a Microsoft Teams link straight away, any time.

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