About

JJ Smith Taxation & Advisory.

A Melbourne-based Chartered Accounting practice providing tax, structuring and lending strategy to business owners, property investors and high-income professionals across Australia.

About us

Integrated tax and lending advice under one engagement.

We operate as a single team of senior accountants, with tax compliance, advisory work, structuring and lending strategy delivered in coordinated engagements rather than as separate services. Each client is allocated a senior accountant who retains responsibility for the file from scoping through to ongoing advisory work.

Engagements are scoped and quoted in writing before any work commences. Most clients engage on a monthly retainer that covers compliance, BAS, quarterly reviews and year-round access to the engagement team. Project work is available on a fixed-fee basis.

Residential and investment lending is written in-house alongside the accounting work, accredited through a major lending aggregator. Clients are not handed over to a third-party broker, removing the loss of serviceability that typically results when accountant and broker operate independently.

How we operate

Three principles that shape every engagement.

01

Strategy ahead of compliance

Compliance is delivered as the by-product of advisory work already undertaken. Annual lodgements should not be the only output of the relationship.

02

Lending in-house

Tax structuring and borrowing capacity are addressed in the same conversation by the same team. Clients are not handed off between disciplines.

03

Senior on every file

Engagements are not delegated through a chain of juniors. The accountant who scopes the work is the accountant who reviews and signs out every deliverable.

Who we serve

Three client types.

We service a deliberately defined client base. New engagements are accepted on a selective basis following a scoping conversation.

Business owners

Privately-owned operating businesses with turnover from $1M to $30M. Often multi-entity, frequently considering acquisitions, expansion or succession in the medium term.

Property investors

From the second purchase onwards. Investors building portfolios deliberately, with active attention to structure, serviceability, land tax and capital gains tax positioning.

High-income professionals

Senior executives, medical and legal practitioners, and consultants. Personal income that warrants proper structuring and a tax position that benefits from forward planning.

Chartered Accountants Australia & New Zealand
Registered Tax Practitioner, Tax Practitioners Board
Xero Partner and Certified Advisor

Book a strategy call.

A 20-minute call with the senior accountant who would lead the engagement. We'll identify where there is room to reduce tax, sharpen the structure or improve borrowing capacity, and confirm whether the work is within our areas of focus.