Small business returns, big business outcomes.
Partnerships and small businesses get the full treatment — BAS, GST reconciliation, and the year-end income tax return — handled in one place by AI plus a registered agent who knows your industry.
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What our AI finds
Deductions you'd otherwise miss.
Night Tax AI scans every line of your data against thousands of ATO-recognised deduction patterns specific to your situation.
Instant asset write-off opportunities up to threshold
R&D and small business tax offset eligibility
Loss carry-back claims where eligible
Employee superannuation & FBT positions
Stock & WIP year-end adjustments
Capital allowance optimisation
How it works
From sign-up to lodged in days, not weeks.
Hand us the books
Connect Xero, MYOB, QuickBooks or share your files — we'll take it from there.
AI reconciles & flags
Every transaction reviewed, queries surfaced as plain-English questions.
Agent finalises & lodges
BAS, GST and income tax return all lodged with the ATO under your name.
Eligibility
Is this the right return for you?
Our small business return is built for partnerships, joint ventures and small operating businesses turning over anywhere from $75,000 up to the small business entity threshold. Whether you're running a café, a two-partner trade, an agency, a bricks-and-mortar retail store or an online seller, the process and pricing are the same.
Every small business return includes the year-end income tax lodgement plus a full BAS and GST reconciliation. If quarterly BAS have already been lodged, we'll reconcile them against actuals and correct any drift; if you've fallen behind, we'll catch you up as part of the engagement.
If you operate through a proprietary limited company, a discretionary or unit trust, or a self-managed super fund, please use the matching product — the small business return doesn't include the specialised financial statements those entities require.
- Partnership, joint venture or unincorporated business
- Turnover under the small business entity threshold
- Currently GST-registered (quarterly or monthly BAS)
- Uses Xero, MYOB, QuickBooks or bank-fed spreadsheets
- Employs staff (STP-reporting or contractor-only)
- Wants a single agent to manage BAS and year-end
Deductions in detail
The deductions our AI hunts for on every return.
Small businesses have access to a wide set of concessions and deductions most owner-operators never fully use. Our AI cross-references your industry, entity type and transaction history against the current small business tax law to make sure every legitimate opportunity is captured before lodgement.
Instant asset write-off
Immediate deduction for eligible assets under the current threshold, applied automatically to qualifying purchases identified in your books.
Simplified depreciation pool
For assets above the write-off threshold, we apply the small business simplified depreciation rules to accelerate deductions.
Prepayments
12-month prepayment rule for eligible small businesses — rent, insurance, subscriptions and interest paid in advance.
Small business tax offset
Applied to eligible unincorporated entities up to the maximum offset, reducing the tax payable on business income.
R&D tax incentive
Where you've undertaken eligible research and development, we assess and coordinate the R&D claim with your technical documentation.
Trading stock adjustments
Year-end stocktake treatment, obsolete stock write-offs and the small business stock valuation shortcut where eligible.
Motor vehicles & FBT
Correct treatment of business vehicles under FBT, exempt vehicle categories, and log-book or statutory methods for employee use.
Employee super & PAYG
Reconciliation against STP data, correcting under- or over-paid super, and confirming super guarantee deductibility.
Capital gains concessions
For eligible small business sales — 15-year exemption, 50% active asset reduction, retirement exemption and rollover — assessed at year-end.
Real-world examples
What a Night Tax return looks like in practice.
Illustrative scenarios based on typical client outcomes. Names changed; numbers realistic.
A two-partner café doing $620,000 in annual sales. Their previous accountant charged $2,900 and missed instant asset write-off on new equipment plus a prepaid rent deduction.
Outcome: Night Tax picked up $34,000 in additional deductions, lodged BAS reconciliation and the partnership return for $550 — saving the partners over $8,000 in combined tax.
A partnership with three utes, two apprentices and messy paperwork after their bookkeeper left mid-year. Six months of transactions were uncoded.
Outcome: We recoded the year, corrected two overdue BAS, applied simplified depreciation on tools and vehicles and lodged the partnership return within a week.
A physio practice with three practitioners, room rentals, HICAPS income and mixed employee/contractor pay. Wanted a single agent for BAS and year-end.
Outcome: Night Tax now handles quarterly BAS and lodged the year-end return with correct contractor treatment, super reconciliation and small business tax offset applied.
Timeline
From start to refund — what to expect.
- Day 1Sign the engagement letter, grant Xero/MYOB access and complete the small business intake (typically 25 minutes).
- Day 2–3AI reconciles the ledger, flags coding queries, checks BAS variance and drafts the return with all applicable concessions.
- Day 4Registered tax agent reviews the draft, discusses any material items with you and confirms deduction positions.
- Day 5Return and BAS lodged electronically with the ATO under your name; year-end file archived for your records.
- 5–21 business daysATO issues assessments; refund or debit outcomes tracked inside your Night Tax dashboard.
Pricing
Flat fees. No surprises. Pay from your refund.
Partnership return, GST/BAS reconciliation and year-end lodgement. Clean books, single trading entity.
Adds quarterly BAS preparation and lodgement, plus mid-year check-in with your agent.
Partnership plus related trust or company; consolidated year-end review across entities.
- Prior-year catch-ups quoted transparently before work begins.
- Book clean-up available at hourly or fixed-fee rates.
- Includes direct communication with a dedicated tax agent.
- Fee deductible in the following year's return.
FAQs
Common questions, straight answers.
What entities do you lodge for?+
Partnerships and small businesses that lodge a partnership return or trust distribution. Companies (Pty Ltd) are handled under our company return product, and self-managed super funds under SMSF.
Can you also do our BAS?+
Yes. Our small business package includes annual BAS reconciliation and, on request, quarterly BAS lodgement throughout the year at a flat monthly fee. You can add this at intake or later.
Do you work with our existing bookkeeper?+
Absolutely. We'll pull data directly from Xero, MYOB or QuickBooks, ask your bookkeeper any questions we have, and prepare the year-end file for your records once lodgement is complete.
How is the fee calculated?+
The $550 starting fee covers most small businesses with clean books and a single BAS reconciliation. Additional entities, complex GST positions, prior-year catch-ups or messy files are quoted transparently before we begin work.
What if our books are a mess?+
That's a Night Tax speciality. We regularly reconstruct a full year from bank statements, invoices and card data. There's a clean-up quote provided up front so there are no surprises.
Do you handle payroll and superannuation?+
We review employee super and PAYG withholding as part of the return and flag any variances against STP-reported figures. Ongoing payroll processing is outside scope, but we can refer a specialist.
Can we speak to a real person?+
Yes. Every small business return is assigned a registered tax agent who introduces themselves after intake, is your point of contact throughout and personally reviews and lodges the return.
How long does a small business return take?+
Most returns are lodged within 5 business days of receiving your books. If reconstruction or extensive queries are required, we'll give you a realistic timeline in writing before we begin.
Related services
Not quite the right fit? Try one of these.
Single-owner ABN businesses. Business schedule inside your individual return from $99.
Pty Ltd entities with financial statements and ASIC reporting from $990.
Family, unit and discretionary trusts with full distribution statements from $199.
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