Maggie and Tom Ellison look after tax returns, rental properties, family trusts and self-managed super funds for Brisbane households. The same faces every year, a proper explanation, and no surprises from the ATO.
Most of our clients came to us for one tax return and now bring the lot: their own, the kids’ first jobs, the investment unit, the family trust and the super fund. That’s the way we like it.
Wage earners, couples, teenagers with their first job, retirees with a few shares. We find every deduction you’re entitled to and explain the result in plain English.
Figtree’s own packages: from $190 for a standard return
One unit or ten, shares or crypto. Rental schedules done properly, depreciation reports chased, and capital gains worked out before you sign the contract, not after.
Figtree’s own packages: from $95 per rental property added to your return
Tom’s speciality. Setting up an SMSF, annual accounts and returns, arranging the independent audit, and keeping trustees on the right side of the rules.
Figtree’s own packages: from $1,650 a year including audit
The café, the physio practice, the consulting company. BAS, year-end accounts, trust distributions and a sensible chat about structure as the business grows.
A May sit-down to look at super contributions, prepaying interest and timing a sale, while there’s still time to act.
Got a letter you don’t like the look of? Bring it in. We deal with the ATO on your behalf, calmly.
Final returns for a parent, deceased estate returns, and working alongside your solicitor on succession.
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Four calculators our clients use most. They give a fair estimate using 2025–26 rates for Australian residents. Check ato.gov.au, and we’ll confirm the real figures at your appointment.
Tax, Medicare levy and the low income tax offset on your taxable income.
2025–26 resident rates: 0% to $18,200; 16% to $45,000; 30% to $135,000; 37% to $190,000; 45% above. Low income tax offset up to $700. Medicare levy 2% with the single low-income reduction phasing in from about $27,222. Doesn’t include HELP repayments, the Medicare levy surcharge or other offsets. ATO tax rates · Medicare levy. 2025–26 rates, check ato.gov.au.
Your net rental result, the approximate tax effect, and the weekly cost after tax.
Uses 2025–26 resident tax rates plus 2% Medicare levy to estimate the change in your tax. Assumes the property is yours alone (co-owners split by ownership share), available for rent all year, and every cost is deductible. Depreciation is a non-cash deduction, so it’s left out of the cash figure. ATO rental property guide. 2025–26 rates, check ato.gov.au.
See your employer’s 12% super guarantee, how much room is left under the cap, and roughly what salary sacrifice saves.
Super guarantee 12% of ordinary time earnings. Concessional contributions cap $30,000 for 2025–26; contributions are taxed 15% in the fund (30% for Division 293 on income plus contributions over $250,000). Saving = your marginal rate plus 2% Medicare, minus 15%. Unused cap from up to 5 earlier years may be carried forward if your total super balance was under $500,000 on the previous 30 June. ATO super. 2025–26 rates, check ato.gov.au. General information only; not financial advice.
The two shortcut methods most families use: 70c per work-from-home hour and 88c per work kilometre.
Fixed rate method: 70c per hour worked from home, covering energy, internet, phone and stationery. You need a record of actual hours for the whole year. Cents per km: 88c per km, capped at 5,000 km per car, with a reasonable basis for your kilometres. Tax back uses your marginal rate plus 2% Medicare. ATO working from home · ATO car expenses. 2025–26 rates, check ato.gov.au.
Call, text or use the form. In person on Merthyr Road, by phone, or by video if you’re away.
Tick through our checklist below. Forgot something? We’ll pull what we can from the ATO prefill.
We walk you through the result, line by line, before anything is lodged. Questions welcome.
We lodge, keep your file for next year, and send a reminder when your next deadline comes round.
Tick what you’ve got. Send us the list and we’ll tell you if anything’s missing before you come in.
Typical due dates for families, investors, SMSFs and small businesses. If you lodge through us, many of these move later.
General due dates only. Your dates can differ, for example with a tax agent lodgment program. Check ato.gov.au due dates.
Straight to the right page on ato.gov.au, asic.gov.au and business.gov.au, so you’re not wading through search results.
Nothing matches that. Try “tax”, “super” or “business”, or just ask us.
Maggie Ellison opened Figtree & Co. in 1998 in a converted Queenslander on Merthyr Road, with a filing cabinet and a handful of neighbours as clients. Her son Tom joined in 2014 after a decade in a city firm and brought the SMSF side with him.
We’re deliberately small. You’ll talk to Maggie or Tom, not a call centre, and we’ll remember that your daughter started uni or that you’re thinking of selling the Bulimba unit.
Why “Figtree”? There’s an old Moreton Bay fig at the end of our street. Maggie liked the idea of something that grows slowly, lasts a lifetime and gives the whole neighbourhood some shade.
Maggie has done our tax since before we were married. Now she does the kids’ returns too. She explains everything twice if you need it and never makes you feel silly for asking.
Tom set up our SMSF and made the whole thing feel manageable. Reminders arrive before I even think about it.
Two rental units and a refinance mid-year. They untangled the interest properly, which my last accountant never did.
Sorted Dad’s final return and the estate paperwork with real kindness at a hard time.
They do our café’s BAS and our family trust. One office, no drama, and they pick up the phone.
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Most clients are a short drive or ferry ride away. Plenty more are interstate kids of long-time clients who meet us by video.
Find us on Merthyr Road, New FarmTell us a little about what you need and we’ll call you back the same business day.