Find A BAS Agent You Can Trust

The Tax Practitioners Board (TPB) has been listening to feedback and have developed a new advertising campaign to promote the necessity for businesses to use the services of a registered BAS Agent.

Their ‘Find a BAS agent you can trust’ campaign raises awareness among businesses of the risks of using unregistered BAS preparers. Unregistered preparers don’t have the required qualifications to advise clients on their obligations, and if they lodge statements to the Australian Taxation Office on behalf of a business, such as yours, they are doing so illegally. Incorrect or incomplete submissions may result in penalties or legal consequences for the client.

Accurate financial reporting is vital for businesses, and this campaign links through to the online register to allow businesses to check that their BAS Agent is registered with the TPB. Because BAS can be submitted monthly, quarterly or annually, the TPB are running the campaign throughout 2025 and 2026 and will refine targeting and messaging throughout the year.

Is Your BAS Agent Registered?

To confirm if a BAS Agent is registered with the TPB, you can:

• Search the TPB Register
• Look for the registered tax practitioner symbol.

TPB Register

The TPB Register includes details of registered tax practitioners and some deregistered practitioners, including the reasons for termination of their registration. For further information about how to use the register, refer to Help with using the TPB Register.

Registered Tax Practitioner Symbol

The registered tax practitioner symbol is an easy way for consumers to see if their BAS Agent is registered with the TPB. The practitioner’s symbol may be found on a range of business materials, including websites, stationery, email signature blocks, brochures and business cards. For further information, refer to Look for the symbol.

Further information:

• Finding and using a tax practitioner
• Risks of using unregistered tax practitioners

Employing Casuals?

Casual employees generally have different entitlements to permanent employees, including pay, hours of work, and leave. To ensure you’re meeting your employer obligations, the Fair Work Ombudsman has the essentials covered in their Guide to casual employment.

The guide answers FAQs about casual employment and includes practical tips to help you understand casuals’ rights under the ‘employee choice pathway’ to permanent employment.

The pathway allows eligible casuals to notify their employer in writing of their intention to change to permanent employment and will start to apply to eligible casuals employed by small businesses from 26th August 2025.

While casual employees have some different rights and entitlements, they have the same access to 10 days of paid family and domestic violence leave per year. If you employ casuals, it’s important to be across the laws.

This resource helps employees and employers understand the entitlements and obligations of casual employment.

It provides:

• A summary of casual employee entitlements (see below).
• How casual employment is different to permanent employment.
• Answers to frequently asked questions about casual employment.
• Examples to help you apply the information to your own situation.

Find more info here: Casual employees – Fair Work Ombudsman.