Editorial Policy | AusBusinessRegister.com.au
AusBusinessRegister.com.au publishes guidance for foreign companies setting up and operating in Australia. The topics we cover (company registration, ASIC compliance, tax, employment law, FIRB) carry real financial and regulatory consequences. This page sets out how content on the site is researched, written, reviewed, and kept current.
If you can’t get the answer you need from a published page, the fastest route is to email [email protected] or call +61 2 8599 9890.
Who writes the content
Content on AusBusinessRegister.com.au is written and approved under the direction of James Carey, CA CTA JP, Director of AusBusinessRegister.com.au, a Chartered Accountant and Chartered Tax Adviser with 15+ years of experience advising foreign businesses operating in Australia. James is also a Justice of the Peace in NSW.
AusBusinessRegister.com.au is a Sydney-based professional-services firm and forms part of the Prime Partners group. We are not a publisher of generalist content; we publish in the areas in which we work every day.
Drafts may be prepared by trained writers or research staff working from briefs we approve, but every page that touches a regulated subject (tax, ASIC, employment law, migration-adjacent guidance) is reviewed and signed off by a qualified team member before publication.
How we research
Our standard sources, in the order we prefer them:
1. Primary law and regulator publications. The Corporations Act 2001, Income Tax Assessment Acts, Fair Work Act 2009, Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Act 1975, and the regulator guidance issued under them. 2. Regulator websites. asic.gov.au, ato.gov.au, abrs.gov.au, firb.gov.au, fairwork.gov.au, and the Department of Home Affairs. 3. Our own working files. Anonymised lessons from real client work, where they illustrate a point of practice without identifying anyone.
We do not republish content from other commentary sites without independently verifying the underlying source. Where another firm’s view is referenced (for example, a Big Four tax alert), it is cited and clearly distinguished from regulator guidance.
Government source citations
Any page that quotes a government fee, threshold, rate, or deadline carries a citation block at or near the relevant figure, in this format:
> Government source: [link to the regulator page] · Last checked: [date]
If you find a citation that no longer resolves, or where the government page now shows a different figure, please tell us. See the Corrections Policy.
Author and reviewer attribution
Substantive guides and pillar pages name the author and the reviewer at the foot of the page, together with their relevant credentials (CA, CTA, JP) and the date the page was last reviewed. Short utility pages (calculators, simple FAQ stubs, redirects) may not carry a byline; the editorial sign-off still applies.
Distinction between general information and regulated advice
This is the most important line in this policy.
- General information. Almost everything on AusBusinessRegister.com.au is general information for a foreign-owned-business audience. It explains how the Australian system works in plain terms. It is not tailored to your facts.
- Regulated tax or legal advice. Advice that we are willing to stand behind for your specific circumstances is delivered under a written engagement, by a named adviser, after we understand your facts. That advice is not on the website.
If a page on the site appears to give a definite answer for your situation, treat it as a starting point and confirm it for your facts before acting. Tax law in particular turns on small differences in fact pattern (residency, control, source of income, treaty position) that a general guide cannot cover.
We will not provide migration advice. Where migration is relevant (for example, business visa pathways linked to subsidiary registration) we describe the landscape and refer you to a registered migration agent or immigration lawyer.
Update cadence
Content is reviewed on a schedule and on event. The two largest scheduled sweeps each year are:
- 1 July. ASIC fee indexation, the start of the Australian income year, and the typical effective date of Fair Work Commission Annual Wage Review decisions. Pages that quote ASIC fees, tax rates, the superannuation guarantee rate, or the minimum wage are reviewed in the weeks either side of 1 July.
- 1 January. Half-year sweep of FIRB monetary thresholds and any mid-year regulator updates.
Off-cycle reviews are triggered by a regulator announcement, a substantive change in law, or a reader correction. See the Review Policy and the Fee Update Policy for the detail.
Use of AI tools
We use AI tools as research assistants. For example, to summarise long regulator documents, or to produce a first draft of a section that a qualified team member then rewrites and verifies. We do not publish AI-generated text without a human author taking responsibility for it. Every regulated fact on the site has been read against its source by a person.
Corrections, complaints, and feedback
Errors of fact, broken government source links, and out-of-date figures should be reported to [email protected] with the URL and the issue. The full process, including response times and how a correction is recorded, is set out in the Corrections Policy.
Contact
- Email: [email protected]
- Phone: +61 2 8599 9890
- Office: 1 James Place, North Sydney NSW 2060
AusBusinessRegister.com.au is a private professional-services firm. We are not the Australian Government’s Australian Business Register (ABR), the Australian Business Registry Services (ABRS), or ASIC. See Why we are not the government ABR for a full disambiguation.