GST, checked before it's filed

• •The period reconciled and closed off before anything is calculated
• •Every transaction checked for the right GST treatment
• •Overseas subscriptions and services checked — a common place GST gets claimed when it shouldn't be
• •Entertainment, donations and private-use items treated correctly
• •Anything unclear comes back to you as a short list of questions
• •The return filed with IRD, on time
• •A plain one-page sheet: what's owed, when it's due, and what it's made up of

Two things go wrong in GST returns. Claiming GST you weren't entitled to — which IRD will eventually want back, with interest. And not claiming GST you were entitled to — which is your money, quietly left with the government.

Both come from the same cause: coding done in a hurry with nobody checking it afterwards. Running a proper check over the period catches both, and after a few returns you start seeing the same handful of accounts causing the same handful of problems. Then we fix the cause, not just the symptom.

Xero access, the paperwork for the period, and answers to the queries we send after the check. The queries are usually short — "is this ute purchase business or personal", "did this trip have a job attached".

If you also want us filing on your behalf, we'll get set up as your agent with IRD, or you can file it yourself from what we prepare. Your call.

Fixed price per return. The work is the same shape every period, so you shouldn't have to wonder what it will cost — and we shouldn't be paid more for a period that happened to be messy.

The price is set once we've seen a period of your books. If your business changes shape — staff, a second entity, a big volume shift — we'll tell you before the price moves, not after.

It happens more often than people admit, and IRD is far more workable than the silence in your inbox suggests. We catch the outstanding periods up as a defined piece of work, file them, and get you back onto a normal cycle.

No lecture. Just get it sorted and keep it sorted.