Outline of Services
Preparation of your Income Tax Return for the year ended 30 June. This includes:
- Preparation of Income Tax Returns & associated schedules
- Electronic lodgement of Income tax Returns
- Lodgement with ATO Review of Notice of Assessment to ensure correct tax calculation
The following schedules will be charged additionally if required:
- Investment Schedules (Trusts, Rental, Overseas income)
- Offsets (Net Medical Offset, Spousal Offset)
- Business Schedules
Terms and Conditions
By submitting this form, you agree to the terms and conditions as outlined in the engagement letter.
This is to confirm our understanding of the terms and objectives of our engagement and the nature and
limitations of the services we will provide.
"Client" or "you" means the entity, acquiring goods or services from us in the Engagement Letter.
"Engagement Letter" means this document including the Terms and Conditions, schedules and annexures set
out herein.
"Services" means the scope of the services specified in the Proposal, Engagement Letter, or as varied in
accordance with these Terms and Conditions.
Purpose, Scope and Output of the Engagement
David King Accounting will provide professional services at your request. We will provide the Services to
you in accordance with relevant professional and ethical standards. The details of the services provided
in this agreement are detailed herein.
Unless otherwise stated herein, the Services covered by this engagement do not include audit or review
services, therefore, no assurance will be provided. Unless agreed with you, the Services will not
include specific identification of fraud or other illegal acts. If we do identify such acts or
omissions, we will inform you. Before doing so, we will notify you as soon as practicable that we have
identified instances of fraud or illegal acts / omissions.
Unanticipated Services
Only the services which are listed in the attached schedules are included within the scope of our
instructions. If there is additional work that you wish us to carry out which is not listed in the
schedule, any additional work will be quoted to you before the commencement of said additional work.
Once the scope of the additional work is agreed upon, we will issue an additional or updated letter of
engagement via our online proposal system, and will ask you to sign the new agreement before we commence
the new work.
Furthermore, {{clientname}} will agree that if an unanticipated need arises (such as an audit, an amended
tax return or a personal financial statement required as part of a loan agreement), this additional work
will be performed only after arriving at a mutually agreed-upon price and a Change of Service Request is
accepted with a digital signature.
Period of Engagement
This engagement starts on the date that the form is signed and is valid until it's ended by mutual
agreement or superseded by a new engagement. We will not deal with earlier periods unless you
specifically ask us to do so and we agree. You or we may agree to vary or terminate this agreement at
any time without penalty. Notice of variation or termination must be given in writing.
Service and Price Guarantee
David King Accounting will always stand behind the quality and professional nature of the services that
we offer. If at any point you are not completely satisfied with the services we have performed, we
encourage you to bring this to our attention immediately. We'd love the opportunity to correctly address
your concerns and allow us a chance to win your trust back and prevent similar problems from happening
in the future.
If you are still not satisfied with the outcome of our services, we will work towards a mutual agreement
regarding the payment for services completed. As an example, we may agree to either forgive the related
payment or accept a portion of the originally agreed price that reflects your level of satisfaction.
Our advice and information is for your sole use, and we accept no responsibility to any third party,
unless we have expressly agreed in the engagement letter that a specified third party may rely on our
work.
Ownership of Documents
All original documents obtained from the client arising from the engagement shall remain the property of
the client. However, we reserve the right to make a reasonable number of copies of the original
documents for our records.
Client Responsibilities and Warranties
In conducting this engagement, information acquired by us in the course of the engagement is subject to
strict confidentiality requirements. That information will not be disclosed by us to other parties
except as required to provide the Services; as allowed for by law; or with your express written consent.
The Client is responsible for the reliability, accuracy and completeness of the accounting records,
particulars and information provided and disclosure of all material and relevant information. Clients
are also responsible for providing us with such materials and relevant information in a timely manner so
that we may provide our Services to you in a timely manner. Clients are required to arrange for
reasonable access by us to relevant individuals and documents, and shall be responsible for both the
completeness and accuracy of the information supplied to us. Any advice given to the Client is only an
opinion which is based on our knowledge of the Client's particular circumstances and is informed by the
information, materials account records and particulars provided to us by the Client.
You agree that we are entitled to rely on the accuracy and completeness of any information you provide us
under this agreement and in order to provide our services to you. David King Accounting accepts no
liability or responsibility for any loss, damage, claim or expense that you may suffer as a result of
you providing us with inaccurate, incomplete, incorrect out of date or untimely accounting records,
particulars or information, and you waive and release us from any and all such liability.
You agree to pay David King Accounting the Fees in accordance with the Billing Schedule set out in this
agreement.
You warrant that you have not relied on any representations or warranties made by David King Accounting
in respect of the Services which have not been expressly set out in this agreement.
Outsourced Services
We may involve third party contractors or outsourced service providers in providing various aspects of
your accounting work. These services may include:
- Accounting file preparation and/ or Data entry into our accounting systems
- Auditing of accounts (including Self-Managed Super Funds)
- Hosting of data on cloud based servers
Acceptance of our services in conjunction with this engagement document indicates your acceptance of the
use of outsourced services as described above. Where the outsourced service requires the disclosure of
personal information to an overseas recipient, a consequence of your consent is that David King
Accounting will be required to take reasonable steps to ensure that Australian Privacy Principles are
complied with by the overseas recipients of the Personal Information.
David King Accounting has taken all available measures to ensure the security and privacy of your data is
protected and follows the notifiable data breaches scheme as outlined in the Privacy Act 1988.
Limitation of Liability
Our liability is limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards Legislation. Further
information on the scheme is available from the Professional Standards Councils' website:
https://www.psc.gov.au/.
Termination of this engagement
Subject to any statutory provisions that apply to the Services, and unless otherwise outlined in this
Terms document, either party may terminate this engagement at any time by giving 28 days written notice
to the other. Either party may terminate this engagement immediately if the other commits any material
or persistent breach of its obligations under this agreement, in particular the Terms and Conditions set
out in the Engagement Letter (which, in the case of a breach capable of remedy, has not been remedied
within 7 days of discovery by the party in breach), or if the other becomes insolvent.
In addition, we may terminate this engagement on reasonable notice if any of the following circumstances
occur:
- you fail to pay our accounts on time;
- You fail to provide us with requested information
- you fail to provide us with adequate instructions;
- your instructions involve acting contrary to the interests of another client;
- a conflict of interest has arisen or it is not appropriate for us to continue to act on your behalf;
- we are no longer be able to provide all or part of the Services to you because of applicable auditor
independence rules or legislation without ceasing to be independent in relation to an audit client;
- for any other reasonable and just cause.
In addition to our other rights, upon termination you will be required to pay our charges for work done,
and for any expenses incurred up to the date of termination together with our reasonable costs and
expenses incurred in connection with the early termination of this engagement.
Termination of this engagement is without prejudice to any rights that may have accrued before
termination. The Terms and Conditions of this agreement which expressly or by implication are intended
to survive its termination or expiry will survive and continue to bind the parties.
Force majeure
Neither party will be liable to the other for any delay or failure to fulfil their obligations under this
agreement if that delay and/or failure arises from causes beyond their control, including but not
limited to fire, floods, acts of God, acts or regulations of any government or supranational authority,
war, riot, terrorist activities, strikes, lockouts and industrial disputes.
Electronic Communications
You agree that we will communicate with each other by electronic means such as e-mail, SMS etc. We and
you each recognise that e-mail and the internet are inherently insecure and that emails and data can
become corrupted, are not always delivered promptly (or at all) and that other methods of communication
may be appropriate. In addition, the internet is prone to viruses. We and you each recognise these
hazards and so each of us will be responsible for protecting our own systems and interests and neither
of you nor we will be responsible to the other on any basis for any loss or damage in any way arising
from the use of electronic communication.
Billing
Services may be billed on a fixed rate or hourly billing rate, as indicated herein. Where we cannot
provide a fixed rate quote, we will quote an hourly rate in cases of project work where it is difficult
to define the scope of the service required. In the case where you have been quoted an estimate based on
an hourly rate, David King Accounting will inform {{clientname}} of the amount of time used before we
issue the final bill and collect payment. Our professional fees will be based on our regular billing
rates, plus direct out-of-pocket expenses and applicable GST, and are due when rendered. Fees for
additional services will be established separately.
Invoicing and Payment
We will submit our bill(s) as indicated herein. If an extension of our services is requested, we will
discuss our fee arrangements at that time. Plan implementation as well as plan monitoring and updating,
if needed, are separate engagements. If you choose one of these additional services, a separate
engagement letter will be provided. These services will be billed separately.
We reserve the right to suspend our services or to withdraw from this engagement in the event that any of
our invoices are deemed delinquent. In the event that any collection action is required to collect
unpaid balances due to us, you agree to reimburse us for our costs of collection, including lawyers'
fees.
Privacy Act
We may collect Personal Information about your representatives, your clients and others when we provide
services to you. If we do, you agree to work with us to ensure that we both meet the obligations that we
each may have under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (as amended) (Privacy Act). The obligations may include
notifying the relevant person to whom the personal information relates who we are and how we propose to
use their personal information. Where you have collected personal information, you confirm that you have
collected the personal information in accordance with the Privacy Act, that you are entitled to provide
this personal information to us and that we may use and disclose the personal information for the
purpose/s we provide our services to you. We will handle personal information in accordance with the
Privacy Act.