We are a registered BAS Agent as required in order to provide BAS Services (including advice, interpretation, interactions with the ATO, lodgement of forms in respect to GST, BAS, Payroll and Superannuation Guarantee). Any practitioner providing these services must be a registered BAS Agent or Tax Agent.
We are subject to the Code of Conduct prescribed in the Tax Agent Services Act 2009 and additional determinations. The Tax Practitioners Board (the board) regulates Registered Agents. We are also required to adhere to the ATO’s requirements in our interactions with their Online Services and use of other relevant software.
We advise as follows:
We advise that to the best of our knowledge and based on all information known to us, Blackwood Bookkeeping Solutions and its representatives:
- Have not committed a prior material breach of the Act or instruments made under the Act
- Are not being investigated by the Board on any material breach
- Are not subject to any sanctions imposed by the Board
- Do not have any conditions applying to our registration
- Have not been disqualified from providing services
- Do not have as employees nor engage with others who have been disqualified from providing services
- Have appropriate and required processes and systems of supervision and quality control of all work performed on our behalf
- Have not had any charge or conviction relating to an offence relating to fraud or dishonesty
- Have not had any imposition of a promoter penalty under the tax law; and
- Had any charge or conviction relating to a tax offence.
We are not aware of any matter that we have not otherwise discussed or presented to you that would significantly influence your decision to engage or continue to engage our services. If there is anything you would like to discuss, please contact us.
Register of Tax Agents and BAS Agents
The Board maintains a public register of Tax Agents and BAS Agents.
The register contains registration details of registered, suspended and deregistered tax and BAS agents.
The register is available at https://www.tpb.gov.au/public-register
Guidance on how to use the Register is available at https://www.tpb.gov.au/help-using-tpb-register
Complaints
We note that we hope that any concerns you may have with our service are able to be discussed with us first to ensure we are able to respond to any misunderstanding or any performance issues.
Complaints about the services you receive can be made directly to the Board.
The Board’s complaints process is explained, and the online form available at https://www.tpb.gov.au/complaints
Our Rights, Responsibilities & Obligations
Our rights, responsibilities and obligations as a registered tax practitioner, including to our client, under the taxation laws (including the TASA and Code) includes, but is not limited to information about obligations under the Code, such as:
- Acting lawfully in the client’s best interests
- Acting honestly and with integrity
- Having arrangements in place to manage any conflicts of interest
- Taking reasonable care to ensure the taxation laws are complied with, and
- providing services in a competent and timely manner.
Your Obligations
Your obligations to Blackwood Bookkeeping Solutions Pty Ltd, includes but is not limited to:
- Making all relevant information available to Blackwood Bookkeeping Solutions in a complete and timely manner
- Being truthful with the information provided to Blackwood Bookkeeping Solutions
- Advising of any changes in any matter that is relevant to the BAS Agent services that are to be provided by Blackwood Bookkeeping Solutions
- Keeping the required records and providing information to Blackwood Bookkeeping Solutions in a timely manner
- Being cooperative with Blackwood Bookkeeping Solutions’ requests and meeting your due dates.
Statements Made to The ATO
In our role of providing services to you, the law states:
We must not make a statement, prepare a statement, or permit an entity to make or prepare a statement to the commissioner that:
- Is false, incorrect or misleading in a material particular.
- Omits anything that causes the statement to be misleading.
If, after making a statement, based on subsequent information, it is apparent that the statement is false or misleading in a material particular, then we should discuss any further information that indicates the statement is not, in fact, incorrect
If we have reasonable grounds to believe that the false or misleading nature of the statement resulted from:
- Failure to take reasonable care in connection with the preparation or making of the statement; or
- Recklessness as to the operation of a taxation law; or
- Intentional disregard of a taxation law.
Then we must advise you:
- That the statement should be corrected.
- The possible consequences of not taking action to correct the statement.
This information is required to be provided by TASA2009 Sn 45(2) and is required when an entity is considering to engage or re-engage a registered tax agent or BAS Agent or upon request.
This information is true and correct at the time of making this statement. Any change to this information must be updated within 30 days of us becoming aware of any change matter.