Accountants for medical and allied health.
GPs, specialists, dentists, physios and allied health owners: your industry's tax landscape has moved sharply in the last few years. We keep practices structured, compliant and profitable.
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What's keeping practice owners up at night.
Three issues dominate medical accounting right now - and all three are structural, which means they are fixable.
Payroll tax on practitioners
State revenue offices are applying payroll tax to many clinic-practitioner arrangements, retrospectively. Whether yours is exposed turns on contracts and payment flows - we review and restructure before the audit letter, not after.
Service entities, done properly
Still legitimate, still useful - if fees are commercial and the substance matches the documents. We build service arrangements that hold up to scrutiny.
Practice structures
Ownership, new partners, asset protection and exit - structured while options are still open. Restructuring an established practice costs ten times what starting right does.
Practice bookkeeping
Practice software, Medicare, gap payments and practitioner splits reconciled weekly in Xero, so the numbers you manage by are real.
Personal + practice tax
The practice, your personal return, your super - one advisor seeing the whole picture is where real planning happens.
Growth decisions
New rooms, new practitioners, buying the building - modelled properly before you commit, with the LINK group's finance team behind you.
Guides for your kind of business.
What your corner of the industry can claim, how GST treats your work, and the structure question answered for your situation. Pick yours:
Doctors & GPs →
Claims, GST and structure for doctors & gps
Dentists →
Claims, GST and structure for dentists
Physiotherapists →
Claims, GST and structure for physiotherapists
Psychologists →
Claims, GST and structure for psychologists
Chiropractors →
Claims, GST and structure for chiropractors
Podiatrists →
Claims, GST and structure for podiatrists
Optometrists →
Claims, GST and structure for optometrists
Medical specialists →
Claims, GST and structure for medical specialists
Frequently asked questions.
Does payroll tax apply to my contracted practitioners?
In Queensland (and most states), revenue offices have applied payroll tax to many clinic-practitioner arrangements under the relevant contract provisions, and the outcome turns on how your agreements and payment flows are actually structured. If your practice hasn't had its arrangements reviewed recently, that review is urgent - the assessments are retrospective.
Are service entity arrangements still okay?
Service entities remain common in medical practice, but they attract ATO attention when the service fees aren't commercial or the substance doesn't match the paperwork. We structure and document them conservatively, in line with ATO guidance.
What structure suits an allied health practice?
It depends on how many practitioners own the business, how you engage clinicians, and your growth plans. Multi-owner practices especially benefit from getting the structure right before adding partners.
Can you handle the bookkeeping for a busy practice?
Yes - including the reconciliation quirks of practice management software, Medicare and gap payments, and practitioner splits. Your Xero file stays current weekly.
Do you work with doctors personally as well as the practice?
Yes. Most of our medical clients have us handle the practice, their personal tax and often their SMSF - one team seeing the whole picture is where the planning value comes from.
Get your practice arrangements reviewed.
Especially if no one has looked at your practitioner contracts since the payroll tax cases. The first conversation is free.
Or call 07 3899 8311.