About Us

Suntax was established in 1989 in the leafy outer Melbourne township of Sunbury.

The practice is a member of CPA Australia and our vision is, “To help our clients and our team to achieve more than we both thought possible, and have fun doing it”. Our passion and focus is “Growing your Business and Your Wealth”.

We are a four partner firm consisting of founding partner John Lawry, his son Mark Lawry, Daniel Riley and Brent West. They are supported by a highly experienced team of 10 accountants and the firm has combined taxation and accounting experience of more than 150 years. Our team are committed to ongoing professional development to ensure that we are at the forefront of technical and accounting developments.

We have developed many consulting tools, templates and benchmarks to help you plan, control and measure your relative performance against your competition and also against the Taxation Office expectations for your industry.

Our business expertise includes the following industries:

• Solicitors
• Building and Trades People
• Airline Industry Employees
• Real Estate Agents
• Franchises
• Travel Agents
• Retailers
• Sports People including AFL Footballers and International Cricket Players

In the past two decades we have also developed specialist skills in a number of key areas including business start ups, negative gearing of an investment property and establishing and operating a self managed superannuation fund.

Professional services offered by Suntax include the preparation of Individual, Business, Partnership, Company, Trust and Self Managed Superannuation Fund income tax returns. The firm is also highly experienced in GST, Capital Gains, Fringe Benefits and income tax audits.

Suntax has established strategic alliances with a number of specialists to ensure clients have access to financial advice, superannuation and retirement planning, mortgage broking and property management.

Suntax is Sunbury’s first Gold Xero Partner and we have embraced cloud computing to help our clients in the digital age.

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