Welcome to Guardian Accounting

Expert Guidance for Your Business and Personal Tax

At Guardian Accounting, your financial success is our priority. As an independent firm, we provide objective, personalised advice designed to reduce your tax burden and simplify compliance. Our goal is to help you keep more of what you earn while staying on top of financial and taxation obligations.
With a focus on accuracy, efficiency, and strategic planning, we offer solutions tailored to your needs.
Contact us today to see how we can help.
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Personal Tax Solutions

Everyone’s tax situation is different. Whether you have complex deductions as an account manager, a straightforward return as a wage earner, or a part-time job with a HECS debt as a student, we offer tailored solutions to fit your needs.

Below are some of the services we provide to help you manage your personal taxes efficiently.

Tax Return Preparation

We make filing your tax return easy with flexible options, including phone, email, and mobile consultations—all at competitive rates.

Tax Review

Not sure if you received the best refund on your last return? We can review tax returns from the past two years to identify any missed deductions and ensure you receive the full refund you're entitled to.

Salary Packaging

Certain personal expenses can be structured to reduce your taxable income, potentially saving you thousands of dollars. Contact us to learn how salary packaging can work for you.

Investment Tax Solutions

Visit our Investor Solutions page to see how we can assist with managing tax obligations related to your investments.

Business Solutions

Starting a new business?

Looking to improve cash flow, reduce tax, or protect your assets?

Planning to sell?

Whatever stage your business is in, we provide expert support to help you navigate challenges and maximise opportunities.

As business owners ourselves, we understand the complexities of running a company. Our tailored solutions are designed to meet your needs, whether you're just getting started or looking to optimize your operations.

Our Business Services Include:

  • Income tax returns and advice

  • BAS/GST returns and advice

  • Capital Gains Tax planning and advice

  • Fringe Benefits Tax returns and advice

  • Tax planning strategies

  • Cash flow management

  • Business structuring advice

  • Financial reporting

  • Salary packaging guidance

Explore our services to see how we can support your business.

Contact us today to get started.

Investor Solutions

No matter the size of your investment portfolio—whether you own property, shares, managed funds, or other assets—we provide expert tax solutions to help you maximise returns and minimise liabilities.

How We Can Help:

Investment Property

Tax plays a key role in optimising your investment property’s returns. Are you taking full advantage of available deductions? Depreciation, in particular, can offer significant tax benefits. We recommend using the tax depreciation estimate calculator provided by BMT to see how much you could save.

https://www.bmtqs.com.au/tax-depreciation-calculator

Shares and Managed Funds

Ensure you’re maximising the tax benefits of your shareholdings and managed fund investments. We can help you navigate dividend imputation, capital gains, and deductions to improve your tax position.

Tax Planning

Proactive tax planning helps you reduce your tax bill and maximise your refund. We assist in structuring your investments efficiently before tax deadlines approach.

Investment Structure

Choosing the right structure can significantly reduce your tax burden and protect your assets for the long term. Setting up your investment portfolio correctly from the start is crucial.

Our Investment Tax Services:

  • Investment structuring advice

  • Tax planning strategies

  • Income tax return preparation

Note: We specialize in taxation and structuring advice. We do not provide investment or personal financial advice.
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Email

tax@guardianaccounting.com

Phone

0438 780 633

Address

PO Box 406, Wangaratta, Vic, 3676
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About Us

Established in 2006, Guardian Accounting was founded to provide practical and effective tax and business solutions for small business owners, investors, and individuals. Based in Wangaratta, Victoria, we serve clients across Australia, making regular interstate visits and leveraging technology to stay connected. By traveling to meet our clients, we gain a deeper understanding of their businesses while ensuring personalised and convenient service.

We believe that strong client relationships are built on personal service, trust, and tailored advice. Our goal is to provide clear, practical solutions that align with your best interests.

As an independent firm, we do not accept commissions, as we consider them a conflict of interest. Any commissions or financial incentives received in connection with our services are fully rebated to you.

Guardian Accounting is led by business owners Ross and Trudi Johnston and is a Registered Tax Agent, a Member of the National Tax & Accountants Association, and a Fellow of the Institute of Public Accountants. Our services and advice meet the highest industry standards and are regularly reviewed by the Tax Practitioners Board, Institute of Public Accountants, and the Australian Taxation Office.

Guardian Accounting Pty Ltd

as trustee for

Guardian Accounting Trust
ACN: 139 023 322
ABN: 61 921 652 869

(Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards Legislation)
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Privacy Policy
Effective date: 12 June 2018
 
About this privacy policy
This document sets out the policy of Guardian Accounting ABN 61 921 652 869 (GA) relating to the privacy of your personal information (Privacy Policy). GA is committed to protecting the privacy of the personal information it collects and receives. GA is bound by the Australian Privacy Principles (APP) contained in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth).
 
Your Personal Information
GA collects and holds personal information from clients, customers, employees, contractors and other individuals. We collect and hold this information when it is necessary for business purposes.
The main types of information collected and held by GA relates to the contact details and organisation roles of our clients, suppliers and other business contacts. Typically this information includes names, addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses and job titles.
We collect most information directly from individuals when we deal with them. The personal information collected may be provided in forms filled out by individuals, face to face meetings, email messages or telephone conversations. If you contact us, we may keep a record of that contact.
In the course of providing professional services to our clients, we may also collect sensitive and special categories of personal information. The types of special categories of personal and sensitive information that we may collect includes, but is not limited to, tax file numbers, financial details, credit information, insurance and health records and information regarding racial or ethnic origins.
In some instances it may be necessary to collect personal, sensitive and special categories of information from clients that relates to their employees, members, customers, third parties, their spouse and dependants to provide professional services. In those circumstances we rely on clients to only provide us with information that they have handled in accordance with the Privacy Act, including obtaining any necessary consent for GA to collect, use and disclose that information.
 
How we may use your personal information
The main purposes for which GA collect, hold and use personal information are:
  • To provide you with our professional services;
  • To respond to an individual’s request;
  • To maintain contact with clients;
  • To keep clients and other contacts informed of the services we offer and industry developments or legislative changes that may be of interest to them, and to notify them of service offerings, seminars and other events we may be holding;
  • For general management and reporting purposes such as invoicing and account management;
  • For recruitment purposes;
  • For purposes related to the employment of our personnel and providing internal services to them; and
  • Other purposes related to our business.
GA also uses your personal information to send you information (either by email or post) that you request. You may elect at any time to no longer receive such information by writing to the Privacy Officer, Guardian Accounting PO Box 406, Wangaratta, Vic, 3676 or by emailing us at admin@guardianaccounting.com.
Alternatively, if we have contacted you by email, you may use the unsubscribe function in that email to notify us that you do not want to receive further marketing or resource information from us by email.
Employee records are generally not subject to the Privacy Act and therefore this Privacy Policy may not apply to the handling of information about employees by GA.
 
Disclosure of personal information
GA does not routinely disclose personal information to other organisations unless:
  • Use or disclosure is permitted by this policy;
  • We believe it is necessary to provide you with a service or product which you have requested;
  • To protect the rights, property or personal safety of any member of the public or a client of GA or the interests of GA;
  • Some or all of the assets or operations of GA may be transferred to another party as part of the sale of some or all of GA business, in which case permission would be sought from all of our clients to pass on any information;
  • You give your consent; or
  • Such disclosure is otherwise required or permitted by law, regulation, rule or professional standard.
GA may also share non-personal, non-identifiable and aggregated information for research or promotional purposes. Except as set out in this policy we do not sell or trade personal information with third parties.
As part of the provision of our services and business operations it may be necessary to allow individuals or organisations outside of GA access to personal information held by us. This may include, but is not limited to, independent contractors and consultants, off-site security storage providers, information technology providers, event managers, credit managers and debt collecting agencies. We require our service providers to adhere to our privacy guidelines and not to keep, use or disclose personal information we provide to them for any unauthorised purposes.
 
Privacy policy on our website
This Privacy Policy applies to any personal information we collect via our websites including www.guardianaccounting.com. In addition to the personal information you provide to us directly (such as where you make a request or complete a registration or subscribe to a publication), GA may also collect personal information from you via our applications and websites.
Cookies may be used on some areas of our websites to allow a website to recognise a previous user and to observe how a user navigates within a website. If you are concerned about the use of cookies, you can configure your web browser to reject or delete cookies.
In order to properly manage our websites and applications we may log certain statistics about users of the facilities, for example software versions used, device identifiers (IP address), location data, dates, times, file metadata, referring website, data entered and user activity such as links clicked. This information does not specifically identify an individual and is used solely to ensure our website and applications present the best possible navigational experience for users.
In some cases third parties may use cookies and other technologies such as those described above in connection with activities like surveys, website analytics and email campaign management. The services we may use from time to time include Google Analytics, Campaign Manager and Microsoft. You can contact us to request further details for the services we use.
As we endeavour to ensure website users are provided with as much information and resources as possible, our websites include a number of links to websites operated by third parties. GA is not responsible for the privacy practices or policies of those sites. We encourage you to review each website’s privacy policy. A link to a non-GA website is not an express or implied endorsement, promotion or warranty of the products or services offered by or accessible through that site or advertised on that site.
 
Security of personal information
We hold personal information electronically and in hard copy form, both at our own premises and with the assistance of outside service providers based in Australia. Some or all of this personal information may be available to directors and authorised staff of GA for use in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
We implement a range of measures to protect the security of your personal information. We also take measures in respect of destroying or de-identifying personal information that is no longer required for any business or legal purpose.
GA may also use overseas facilities or contractors to provide certain services to us. As a result, we may at times be required to transfer your personal information to our overseas facilities or contractors for these purposes. However, any such transfer of information would only be done with your permission and does not change any of our commitments to safeguard your privacy and the information remains subject to existing confidentiality obligations.
 
Procedures for access, correction and feedback
We will provide access to personal information upon request by an individual except in limited circumstances in which it is permitted for us to withhold this information, for example where granting access would infringe another person’s privacy.
If you make a request to access personal information we may require that you provide some form of identification such as a driver’s licence or passport so that we can verify that you are the person to whom the information relates.
If at any time you want to know what personal information we hold about you, you may contact us by writing to: The Privacy Officer, Guardian Accounting, PO Box 406, Wangaratta, Vic, 3676, or email us at admin@guardianaccounting.com.
If you believe that the information we hold about you is incorrect or out of date, or if you have concerns about how we are handling your personal information, please contact us and we will try to resolve your concerns.
If you wish to have your personal information deleted, please let us know and we will take reasonable steps to delete it (unless we need to keep it for legal, auditing or internal risk management reasons).
 
If you have any further queries relating to our Privacy Policy, or you have a problem or complaint, please contact our Privacy Officer. If you are not satisfied with our handling of your problem or complaint you may contact the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner at www.oaic.gov.au or by phone 1300 363 992.
 
Contact Details
Privacy Officer
Guardian Accounting
PO BOX 406
Wangaratta Vic 3676
P: 0438 780 633
E: admin@guardianaccounting.com
 
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to review and amend this Privacy Policy from time to time and to notify you by posting an updated version on our website at www.guardianaccounting.com.
 
Additional Privacy Information
Further information on privacy in Australia may be obtained by visiting the website of the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner at www.privacy.gov.au.