Pty Ltd company registration for Australian businesses

A named person on our team owns your file and reviews everything that leaves it. Software does a real share of the grinding underneath it — coding, matching, flagging the obvious gaps — but nothing regulated happens without a person’s judgement, and nothing here is signed or filed by an algorithm.

CapEasy prepares the registration and coordinates lodgment through an ASIC registered agent; constitution drafting beyond replaceable rules is reviewed by an Australian professional.

Whatever you already run. Most commonly QuickBooks, Xero, NetSuite, Sage, Zoho Books and a handful of others — we work inside your system rather than moving you onto one of our own.

A short, free read-only look at what you already have, and a written note on what we found. A scoping call decides the size of the engagement — nothing here commits you to anything.

There is no published price for pty ltd company registration — it depends on volume, how many entities are involved, and how far behind the books are. We quote after the read-only review, which is free.

Pty Ltd company registration sits inside company formation, alongside Australian subsidiary of an Indian company, Sole trader setup, Partnership setup. Most clients end up buying the category as a whole rather than one leaf at a time, but starting narrow is fine.

The ASIC registration fee is $636 under the FY2026-27 schedule (from 1 July 2026; it was $611 the year before), plus a $342/yr annual review fee every year after. Those are the government charges — the fee schedule is indexed annually, so the number is worth confirming against the year lodgment actually happens in.

We prepare the complete Form 201 pack — name check, registered office, share structure, replaceable-rules or constitution election — and coordinate lodgment through an ASIC registered agent. The director whose Director ID is on the form is the one who signs the parts a director must personally sign; that step doesn't move to us.

It's a unique identifier ABRS issues to an individual, and every proposed director needs one before Form 201 can name them — it's a pre-appointment requirement, not a post-registration formality. An Australian resident applies themselves via myGovID, usually same-day; nobody else, including us, can lodge that application for them.

The paper process for a foreign-resident director runs roughly 28–56 business days per ausbusinessregister.com.au and other sources, materially longer than the instant online path for Australian residents. We map that timeline against a founder's target date at the start of intake, not partway through registration.

A straightforward sole-director, sole-shareholder company can run entirely on the Corporations Act's free replaceable rules with no drafting needed. Multiple shareholders, different share classes, or specific exit terms usually call for a constitution — that drafting is reviewed by an Australian professional, not finalised by us.

No — Australia has no separate one-person-company class. A sole director who is also the sole shareholder registers on the exact same Form 201 as a company with several directors and shareholders; the Corporations Act permits one person to hold both roles.

An Australian Company Number (ACN) and a Certificate of Registration from ASIC. From there the company applies for its own ABN, TFN and GST registration (if turnover will exceed $75,000/yr) through the Australian Business Register — those are separate applications made after the company exists, which we prepare as part of the same handoff.

ASIC charges a late-payment penalty on top of the $342 review fee — $102 if paid within one month of the due date, $428 if later than that. The due date is the incorporation anniversary, not the financial year end, which is why it's easy to lose track of a year in. We flag the date ahead of time as part of the registration handoff.

We coordinate lodgment through an ASIC registered agent rather than holding that status ourselves. The director signing Form 201 remains the person legally responsible for the company; the registered agent handles the formal lodgment mechanics on the director's instruction.

Structuring and tax advice for a fee requires registration with the Tax Practitioners Board under the Tax Agent Services Act 2009 — an unregistered preparer was fined $230,000 in a real Federal Court case for exactly this. We prepare the registration facts and documents; the structuring call sits with your registered tax agent or accountant.

It has to be a real Australian street address where documents can be served — a P.O. box alone doesn't qualify. A director's home address or a registered agent's address both satisfy the requirement; we confirm which one a founder wants to use before the form is finalised.