We are very efficient at completing tax work for small businesses in Agriculture or Ag related businesses.

Our clients include shearing contractors, merino ram studs, contract harvester’s & sprayers, new ag related systems integrators and inventive people in the agriculture industry. Here’s what our ideal client looks like.

New clients seek our expertise when they’re:

• Lacking awareness of how tax work and what is involved
• Not knowing how best to commence record keeping and tax compliance
• Still relying on hardcopies of invoices and receipts
• Unable to connect the dots between their income for the year and tax liability
• Missing conversation opportunities with other likeminded individuals
• Struggling to stay compliant with the tax man

How we help solve those problems

We implement our services within an intentionally designed and discipline filing system, four-step framework, as follows:

1. Bookkeeping: Monthly record keeping to get from point A to point B
2. Business Activity  Statement: Collate reports from bookkeeping to record and lodge GST reports when due.
3. Tax Planning: Most critical base of business tax that will needed to be paid is tax planning before the end of the financial year, at 30th June each year.
4. Financial and tax returns: Ongoing work for the year comes together to complete the financials that record income and expenses that you can forward to third parties showing your business activity for the year, and recording taxable income

Learn more about this framework and how our process works.

Three things make us different

1. Ag and Ag related business are our niche  We work with new businesses created by an enthusiastic individuals in NSW, wanting to grow with a little bit of tax to pay.
2. We’ve written a new business tax compliant playbook  Instead of helping clients to minimise tax and succession plan, we’ve designed a tax compliance framework allowing you and your business starting from nothing and growing on a steady growth path.
3. Business Growth is our metric  We use Australian Tax Office reports like industry metrics, outstanding tax still owing and keeping tax simple as a guide to success.

How we price our services

For a full-scale program with JohnShepherd.com.au, we recommend budgeting roughly $3,000/year.

That said, we like to eliminate as many barriers as possible to getting started, so each of the four parts of our framework can be implemented one step at a time, and at the right pace for you.