Music & Entertainment
We have 20 years of accounting experience in the music industry. Our current clients include some of Australia’s most prolific and internationally successful artists.
We act as accountants and tax agents for musicians, managers, record and publishing companies, publicists, booking agents, support crew, promoters, advertisers, live music venues and music festivals.
Our extensive experience in Australian and international tax, royalties and financial management ensures that each artist receives attentive business tax advice and service from fully qualified and knowledgeable professionals.
Our services encompass the following:
- Full back office and bookkeeping services, including processing payments, invoicing and debt collection
- Tour and project budgets and costings
- Profit and Loss and Balance Sheet reporting, preparation and analysis of monthly management accounts
- Preparation and lodgement of Income Tax Returns
- Preparation and lodgement of Business Activity Statements, Instalment Activity Statements, Fringe Benefits Tax returns, PAYG withholding reports, and Superannuation reporting obligations
- Tax planning
- General business and taxation advice
- Non-resident taxation obligations
- Foreign income and tax residency implications
- Withholding tax obligations, including special rules for performers
- Royalty accounting, analysis and audits
- Export marketing development grant applications and lodgements
- Grant acquittals