About

Who we are

Based in Surrey Hills Melbourne, Cinch Bookkeeping Services is a reliable, friendly professional firm, working together with business owners and their accountants.

Jacinta Hewer has been working with small businesses for over 20 years and knows exactly what’s important. The love of helping businesses through good bookkeeping has put her focus on just that, a first rate, cost effective service.

Jacinta is a registered BAS agent, licensed under the Tax Practitioners Board in accordance with the Tax Agent Services Act 2009 and the Tax Administration Act 1953.

A registered BAS agent can advise on and ascertain liabilities for a business owner in respect to GST, PAYG withholding, PAYG Instalments, superannuation, taxable payments annual report and other BAS-related services, including fuel tax credits and wine equalisation tax. This legislation was implemented in order to provide security, standards and reliability for business owners who want to outsource their bookkeeping.

Jacinta is a Member of The Institute of Certified Bookkeepers.

In accordance with the requirements of the Institute of Certified Bookkeepers, and the Tax Practitioners Board, we are bound by professional codes of conduct, which include maintaining qualifications, participating in ongoing education and holding professional indemnity insurance. We must also act with honesty, integrity, independence, confidentiality and competence.

We are committed to providing you with outstanding service, expert advice, contemporary technology and continuous improvement.

 

Pure Bookkeeping System

We are proud to use the Pure Bookkeeping System with all of our clients. We are accredited licensees, and all our bookkeepers have been trained in the Pure Bookkeeping System.

The Pure Bookkeeping System has been developed over 10 years by a team of professional bookkeepers and tested with dozens of bookkeepers working in 100’s of organisations. It details industry best practice for bookkeeping, reporting and BAS lodgement. It is the only bookkeeping system endorsed by the Australian Bookkeepers Network – Australia’s premier professional body for bookkeepers.

What does that mean for you?

First and foremost your books will be impeccable. Whenever you look at any report the numbers will be right. When your Accountant gets the books at the end of the year, everything will be perfect – you won’t have to pay for your accountant to fix anything up. And if you ever get audited by the ATO, the process will be a smooth and quick as possible.

So most of all it gives you peace of mind – you can relax knowing that the finances of your business are in good hands.

Our qualifications and memberships include:

  • Registered BAS Agent 25307314 (with the Tax Practitioners Board)
  • Institute of Certified Bookkeepers – Member
  • Pure Bookkeeping System – Licensee
  • Xero – Certified Advisor & Professional Partner
  • HubDoc – Certified Partner
  • Receipt-Bank – Professional Partner

 

Here’s what an accountant says about the Pure Bookkeeping System:

I’m blown away by the depth, thoroughness, and quality of the Pure Bookkeeping System, and the financials that I receive as a result. After experiencing the difference it makes to my business partnering a bookkeeper who is using the Pure Bookkeeping System I would never go back – and I recommend my clients only use bookkeepers who use the Pure Bookkeeping System.

Craig Lawson – Craig Lawson Consulting. 

 

Disclosure Statement

Tax Agent Services Act 2009 

We are a registered BAS Agent as required in order to provide BAS Services (including advice, interpretation, interactions with the ATO, lodgement of forms in respect to GST, BAS, Payroll and Superannuation Guarantee).  Any practitioner providing these services must be a registered BAS Agent or Tax Agent.

We are subject to the Code of Conduct prescribed in the Tax Agent Services Act 2009 and additional determinations. The Tax Practitioners Board (the board) regulates Registered Agents. We are also required to adhere to the ATO’s requirements in our interactions with their Online Services and use of other relevant software.

 

We advise that to the best of our knowledge and based on all information known to us, we
  • Have not committed a prior material breach of the Act or instruments made under the Act.
  • Are not being investigated by the Board on any matter.
  • Are not subject to any sanctions imposed by the Board.
  • Do not have any conditions applying to our registration.
  • Have not been disqualified from providing services.
  • Do not have as employees nor engage with others who have been disqualified from providing services.
  • Have not had any charge or conviction relating to an offence relating to fraud or dishonesty.
  • Have not had any imposition of a promoter penalty under the tax law; or
  • Had any charge or conviction relating to a tax offence.
  • We are not aware of any matter that we have not otherwise discussed or presented to you that would significantly influence your decision to engage or continue to engage our services.  If there is anything you would like to discuss, please contact us.

 Register of Tax Agents and BAS Agents

The Board maintains a public register of Tax Agents and BAS Agents.
The register contains registration details of registered, suspended and deregistered tax and BAS agents.
The register is available at https://www.tpb.gov.au/public-register
Guidance on how to use the Register is available at https://www.tpb.gov.au/help-using-tpb-register

 

Complaints

We note that we hope that any concerns you may have with our service are able to be discussed with us first to ensure we are able to respond to any misunderstanding or any performance issues.

Complaints about the services you receive can be made directly to the Board.

The Board’s complaints process is explained, and the online form available at https://www.tpb.gov.au/complaints

This information is required to be provided by TASA2009 Sn 45(2) and is required when an entity is considering to engage or re-engage a registered tax agent or BAS Agent or upon request. 

This information is true and correct at the time of making this statement.  Any change to this information must be updated within 30 days of us becoming aware of any change matter.