Chartered Accountants for tradies.
See how LINK works with tradies to build their businesses and keep more profit in their pockets every year - while QBCC, TPAR and the ATO stay permanently off your back.
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Built for how trade businesses actually run.
'We recommend LINK to anyone serious about their business and its future. They are, and continue to be, our most important partner.' - Cam James, Director, Novo Property
QBCC sorted
Minimum financial requirements tracked and annual reporting lodged on time, matched to your licence category - your licence never rides on missed paperwork.
TPAR handled
Pay subbies? Your Taxable Payments Annual Report is prepared straight from Xero and lodged every August without you thinking about it.
Job costing
Margin per job, visible while the job is still running. Pricing gets sharper, quotes get faster, profit stops being a surprise.
Subbie vs employee
Worker classification assessed properly against the ATO's current position, so super, PAYG and payroll tax never come back to bite.
More cash in your pocket
Structures, tax planning and equipment timing built around a trade business's cashflow - so you keep more of what you earn.
An accountant who answers
Call from the ute, get an answer. Unlimited access, fixed monthly fees, regular catchups around your schedule.
We integrate with the best technology around.
Xero at the core, Dext for receipts, and the job management tools tradies actually use - connected properly so quoting, invoicing and the books all talk to each other. Minutes of admin a week, not evenings.
Deduction guides, trade by trade.
What your specific trade can claim, how GST works on your jobs, and the structure question answered for your risk profile. Pick your trade:
Electricians →
Tax deductions and accounting for electricians
Plumbers →
Tax deductions and accounting for plumbers
Carpenters →
Tax deductions and accounting for carpenters
Builders →
Tax deductions and accounting for builders
Landscapers →
Tax deductions and accounting for landscapers
Painters →
Tax deductions and accounting for painters
Concreters →
Tax deductions and accounting for concreters
Tilers →
Tax deductions and accounting for tilers
What this looks like in practice.
An electrical contracting business, $3.8m revenue, 14 on the tools, trading through a sole trader ABN and a family trust.
Case study · TradesA good year, a big tax bill, and no idea it was coming.Structure, timing and drawings sorted before June, not explained after it. See what changed
The background
The owner had grown the business steadily and was, by any measure, doing well. He was also doing his tax the way he always had: find out in October what the year had cost him, and be surprised by it.
The challenge
The structure had been set up when the business was one van, and nothing about it had been revisited since. Trading income and personal income were entangled, so a good year pushed the owner to the top marginal rate on money the business needed to keep. Drawings came out of the company account whenever cash allowed, with no loan agreement and no repayments, which is a Division 7A problem accruing quietly. Equipment purchases were made on gut feel about the timing rather than against the year's actual position. And because there was no interim reporting, every planning conversation happened after 30 June - which is to say, after every lever had already been pulled or missed.
The approach
Nothing here needs cleverness. It needs the conversation moved from October to May, and a structure that matches the business the owner actually has rather than the one he started.
How the work ran
Stage 1
Find out where the year is going, in May
Interim figures to March and a projected position to June, so the owner could see the tax bill forming while there was still time to act on it. That single change is most of the value; everything after it depends on knowing the number early.
Stage 2
Fix the drawings before they become dividends
Existing loan account balances were quantified and put onto complying Division 7A terms with real minimum repayments, and a regular drawing set at a level the business could actually sustain. Deemed dividends stopped being a year-end discovery.
Stage 3
Match the structure to the business
The trading structure was reviewed against where the business had got to - retained profit, asset protection, who else works in it, and what happens if it is ever sold. Equipment purchases moved to being timed against the projected position rather than guessed at, and the year-end review became an annual fixture in May.
What changed
- Tax position
- known in Octoberprojected in May
- Drawings
- ad hoc, no agreementcomplying Div 7A terms
- Asset purchases
- timed on gut feelagainst the projected position
- Structure
- set up for one vanreviewed against the business today
- Planning
- after 30 Junea fixture before it
A surprising tax bill is almost never a tax problem. It is a timing problem: the levers that move it - super, timing, structure, purchases - all have to be pulled inside the year, and an accountant who only appears in October is reporting the weather rather than helping you dress for it.
A worked example, built from the pattern these engagements follow in trades. The business is composite and unnamed; the mechanics, the sequence and the order of work are the ones we use. Talk to us about your own numbers.
Frequently asked questions.
Do you handle QBCC annual reporting?
Yes - QBCC minimum financial requirements and annual reporting are core work for our Queensland trade clients. We track your licence category's requirements and lodge on time, so your licence is never at risk over paperwork.
What is TPAR and do I need to lodge one?
The Taxable Payments Annual Report covers payments to contractors in building and construction (among other industries), due to the ATO each August. If you pay subbies, you almost certainly need to lodge - we prepare it from your Xero data.
Should my offsider be an employee or a subcontractor?
The ATO looks at the totality of the relationship, not the invoice arrangement (their current ruling is TR 2023/4). Getting it wrong triggers super, PAYG and payroll tax exposure. We assess your actual arrangements and set them up defensibly.
Can you help me price jobs better?
Yes - job costing is where trade profits are won. We set up job tracking in Xero (or a connected tool like a job management app) so you can see margin per job, not just a bank balance at the end of the month.
I'm on the tools all day. How does the accounting actually work?
Photos of receipts into Dext, invoicing from your phone, and a bookkeeper who keeps Xero current behind the scenes. Your involvement is minutes a week, plus a regular catchup with your advisor.
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