BAS Preparation & Review

BAS without the quarterly scramble

A BAS quarter should be a quiet week. It becomes three days of frantic reconstruction only when the bookkeeping behind it was never kept current — and rushed work is exactly where errors come from.

We prepare, review and lodge your BAS under the supervision of a Registered BAS Agent, working from records that have been maintained throughout the quarter rather than assembled at the end of it.

What gets checked

The common errors are consistent and predictable: GST claimed on bank fees, on certain government charges, or on payments to suppliers who are not registered. Because these are coding habits rather than one-off slips, they usually repeat all quarter. Reviewing the coding before lodgement catches them before they reach the ATO.

Payroll figures feed into your activity statement too, which is why payroll errors tend to show up twice. If we handle your payroll as well, both are reconciled together.

If you are behind

Being several quarters behind is more common than you would think, and entirely fixable. Catch-up bookkeeping establishes an accurate position first, then BAS becomes a review rather than an excavation.

Not sure whether this is what you need? We will tell you honestly — including when the answer is that you are managing fine without us. Get in touch for a free, no-obligation chat about your BAS obligations.