Accountant & tax agent for Numurkah

Numurkah is a farming town on the Broken Creek, 37 kilometres up the Goulburn Valley Highway from Shepparton, with the irrigated country of western Moira Shire around it. It is close enough to our Shepparton North office that a visit is easy, and far enough that most people would rather not. SMT Accounting is a registered tax agent that handles Numurkah's tax, BAS and bookkeeping by phone, WhatsApp and video.

Twenty-four minutes down the highway

Google Maps puts the drive from Numurkah to 53 Mootwingee Crescent, Shepparton North at about 24 minutes, straight down the Goulburn Valley Highway. We see Numurkah clients there by appointment, often for a first meeting about a new business or a farm restructure. After that, nearly everything runs through your phone: photograph the documents, answer our questions by message, approve the draft, sign electronically. Sohail Yasin (CPA, registered tax agent) and Syed Shah (IPA member, registered tax agent) prepare the work personally and are the people who answer when you call.

Numurkah's economy and the people we work with

Numurkah had 3,807 residents at the 2021 Census and is one of the four main towns of Moira Shire, whose council sits in Cobram. The town was surveyed in 1875 once the pastoral runs were opened to selection, and a soldier settlement scheme after the First World War put hundreds of ex-servicemen onto farm blocks around it. Moira Shire's own formation in 1994 turned on the fact that its irrigated farmers in the west and dryland farmers in the east have different needs, and Numurkah sits on the irrigated side, which is why dairy, pasture and cropping dominate the paddocks around town. The 2012 Broken Creek flood, which inundated much of the town and led to the hospital being rebuilt, is still a reference point for local business owners' insurance, record-keeping and continuity planning.

The Numurkah clients we most often act for are:

• Dairy and mixed farmers with milk and livestock income, Farm Management Deposits, income averaging and water that is bought, sold and leased separately from the land.
• Grain and fodder growers whose income lands in lumps at harvest, with machinery depreciation, fuel tax credits and the timing of sales across 30 June to manage.
• Agricultural contractors: spraying, harvesting, fencing, earthmoving and hay carting, usually with a ute, a few machines and a BAS every quarter.
• Hospital, aged-care and school staff at Numurkah's rebuilt health service and local schools, with shift allowances, registration fees and self-education claims.
• Tradies and transport operators servicing farms and the housing on the town's edges.
• Melville Street retailers, cafés and service businesses managing GST, staff and the question of when a sole trader should become a company or trust.

For the farming rules in full, with the ATO source behind each one, see our agriculture and horticulture guide.

Services Numurkah clients use

• Individual tax returns, with the occupation-specific deductions checked rather than assumed.
• Sole trader tax returns for contractors and owner-operators.
• Business and company tax for farm and trade entities.
• BAS, GST and IAS each quarter, including fuel tax credits.
• Bookkeeping and payroll with Single Touch Payroll, with the Payday Super rules from 1 July 2026 built in.

What to have ready

• Photo ID and your tax file number, submitted only through our encrypted onboarding form.
• Employees: receipts, a vehicle logbook if you claim the car, and your work-from-home hours. Your income statement comes to us from the ATO once you nominate us.
• Farms and businesses: bank feed access or statements, sales and purchase records, livestock and grain-on-hand figures, payroll details, the asset register and last year's return.
• Investors: rental summaries, share and crypto statements. The tax return checklist lists everything by category.