Tax Planning Industry

• Generate an extra $250 - $1,000 in fees from every business client every year.
• It will increase your existing fees.
• It increases client retention and generates new clients from word of mouth referrals.
• No extra licensing or registrations are required.
• Your current compliance tax knowledge is the base level foundation upon which tax planning expertise can be readily built
• It creates the opportunity to differentiate yourself from your competitors.

For the year ended 30th June 2020 42,561 tax agents (RTA) and 19,550 tax (financial) advisers generated $330 million in revenue from tax planning. Tax planning accounted for 7.5% of the year's $4.4 billion tax services revenue.

Although 94% of accounting practices say they provide tax planning services, less than 10% of suburban accounting practices actually generate any revenue from the service.

To date, Australia has lagged behind the US in the adoption and use of tax planning software. As a result, tax planning in Australia has generally been provided manually, on an adhoc basis, to less than 10% of taxpayers.

A Google search for 'Australian tax planning software' only brings up 3 businesses;

• TaxFitness
• Tax Strategist
• Change GPS

Over the last twenty years, every task, function and service in the average accounting practice has changed dramatically. The personal computer, and associated software, has brought enormous efficiencies in the preparation of financial statements, budgeting, and tax return preparation. Today, no accountants perform these tasks manually.  

Tax planning has also greatly benefited from computerisation. Tax planning software has now taken an ad hoc, manual, time consuming process to a new level of efficiency and effectiveness. In the US tax planning software has been available for over 15 years with the main suppliers being:

• Tax Planner Pro
• Bloomberg Tax
• Planner CS
• Pro Series Intuit 
• Exec Plan