Count On Us Ltd is a chartered accounting firm on Bay Road in Hataitai, Wellington, that has been helping businesses and individuals across the greater Wellington region for 25 years. Members of Chartered Accountants of Australia and New Zealand (CAANZ), the team offers friendly, professional accounting you can trust — fully trained in accountancy, taxation and financial planning, and gladly subscribing to CAANZ's strict code of ethics and the accountability that membership brings.
The firm operates as a one-stop shop for commercial and personal financial services: traditional accounting and taxation, financial portfolio structuring and management, business planning and development, mortgage broking, family or trading trusts, company administration and business computing systems. Specialist strengths include GST, fringe benefit tax, rental property matters, guidance for independent contractors, and professional help for anyone in trouble with Inland Revenue. As a Xero-friendly practice, they also help businesses choose and configure a Xero package, with ongoing training and support.
Every business is treated as unique, with transparent, easy-to-understand pricing agreements tailored to business goals and personal circumstances. New clients are always welcome — the team invites you to make a time for a confidential, obligation-free chat and to see how authentic relationships, meaningful advice and modern tools can turn today's challenges into tomorrow's opportunities.
For 25 years, Count On Us Ltd has been helping businesses and individuals across the greater Wellington region with their financial affairs. From its base on Bay Road in Hataitai, the firm has built its reputation on a simple promise: friendly, professional accounting you can trust. Its stated purpose is to make business easier for real people — using authentic relationships, meaningful advice and modern tools to help clients turn today's challenges into tomorrow's opportunities.
The firm's name is also its refrain. Count On Us to save you time and money. Count On Us to be professional. Count On Us to be onto it. Behind the wordplay sits a serious credential: the team are members of Chartered Accountants of Australia and New Zealand (CAANZ), fully trained in accountancy, taxation and financial planning. The firm gladly subscribes to CAANZ's strict code of ethics and welcomes the accountability and responsibility that membership brings — a pointed contrast, the site notes, to back-street operators who simply have a go at doing your books.
Count On Us positions itself as a one-stop shop for commercial and personal financial services. Alongside traditional accounting and taxation work, its staff handle financial portfolio structuring and management, business planning and development, mortgage broking, family or trading trusts, company administration and business computing systems. Staff are qualified and kept up to date with the relevant laws and industry trends, and where specialist help is required, the firm uses and recommends external suppliers that are tried and proven.
The specialist tax services are a particular strength. The team knows New Zealand's GST legislation like the back of its hand, covering registration queries, preparation of GST returns, filing and adjusting returns, IRD audit assistance and specialist events involving GST such as the sale or purchase of property. Fringe benefit tax advice covers both the preparation of FBT returns and the FBT consequences of proposals, so clients can make fully informed decisions rather than paying excessive amounts.
For property investors, Count On Us offers services and advice to manage rental properties — demystifying ring fencing, non-deductible mortgage interest and ongoing housing tax changes. Independent contractors get guidance on their obligations, and anyone in hot water with Inland Revenue is urged not to wait while overdue payments and accumulating interest mount: the firm provides professional taxation help to get things sorted.
Count On Us is a Xero-friendly practice. It helps businesses choose and configure a Xero package to suit their needs, then provides training and support to make online accounting easier.
Financial and business planning follows a structured six-step approach: understand your current position, define your lifestyle objectives and future financial needs, develop a strategy, agree on the strategy and action items, implement, then manage progress towards your objectives. Goals might include financial security in retirement, preserving and growing the real value of your capital, protecting your lifestyle and dependants, funding children's or grandchildren's education or weddings, or travel abroad. The firm is upfront about its limits: it does not provide investment or retirement planning services, but is happy to assist you in choosing from the numerous options available.
Pricing is designed to remove guesswork. Every business operates differently, so support comes via transparent, easy-to-understand pricing agreements tailored to your business goals and personal circumstances — choose the essentials that support daily operations, then add the services that accelerate growth, improve performance and build lasting success.
Client testimonials on the site speak to long, hands-on relationships. One property building project manager with multiple rentals, a trust and various companies relies on the team for the magic stuff, general business advice and staying out of trouble. Two brothers who built their own rental properties credit the firm with steering them through historic ownership structures that time had made difficult — with one visiting monthly with one problem or another. Another client credits Peter with spotting the strategic value of a run-down property in an expensive old suburb, a purchase that later drew a bidding war between neighbours.
The firm's mission is to be recognised by the Wellington business community as an innovative and ethical organisation and the premium supplier of commercial advice and related services. New clients are welcomed with a confidential, obligation-free chat — call 04 387 8113 to make a time.