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Registered office and registered ASIC Agent services for company directors who would rather run their business than manage a register - with every fee published up front.

Registered Office & ASIC Agent Services | Conscious Wealth Creation

Every Australian company must maintain a registered office and keep its ASIC record accurate — and the obligations sit with its directors personally. Get it right and you never hear about it. Get it wrong and the consequences arrive quickly: escalating late fees, an inaccurate public register, statutory notices sitting unread in a pile of mail — and, at the extreme, ASIC deregistering the company. We take the whole job off your desk.

New from February 2026: ASIC no longer shows directors’ residential addresses on company extracts — so the registered office and business address are now the addresses a company search actually reveals. That makes your registered office the last public address decision a director makes.

Why directors appoint a registered agent

The annual review is more than paying ASIC’s invoice. Each year, within two months of the review date, the directors must pass a solvency resolution — a formal minute recording that the company can pay its debts as they fall due. Nothing is lodged with ASIC when the company is solvent, which is exactly why it gets missed: the minute still has to be drafted, signed and kept with the company’s records, and ASIC must be notified if the resolution is not passed. We draft it for your signature every year as part of the annual review service.

The deadlines become ours to watch

We track your annual review date, check your company statement for errors, and prepare the directors’ solvency resolution for signature within the required window — every year, without you needing to remember any of it.

Late fees never arrive

ASIC’s late fees escalate quickly and dwarf the cost of the service, and a review left unpaid or unactioned can end in the company being deregistered. On-time payment and paperwork is the whole point of what we do.

Changes are lodged correctly, first time

Officeholder, address and share changes have prescribed forms and strict lodgement windows. We prepare and lodge them properly, so the public register stays accurate and penalty-free — untangling a mis-lodged form costs far more than lodging it right.

No ASIC portal, no corporate key

As your registered agent we receive your company statements and ASIC correspondence electronically and deal with ASIC on your behalf. No logins to maintain, no letters lost in the post, no hold music.

Why use our address as your registered office

Your registered office is your company’s legal front door — it appears on the public register, and it is where statutory notices and court documents are validly served. And in an age of data breaches and identity crime, an address on a public register does not stay on the register: it is scraped, aggregated and resold into data-broker and marketing lists. That makes the choice of address matter more than most directors realise:

Your home stays off the company’s public record

With directors’ residential addresses now suppressed on ASIC extracts, the registered office is the address anyone searching your company sees. If it’s your home, your home is the company’s public address. Use ours and it isn’t — one less place your personal details live online.

Time-critical documents are seen the day they arrive

Some documents served on a registered office start strict clocks — a statutory demand, for example, gives a company only 21 days to respond. Ours is professionally monitored every business day, so nothing sits unread.

Move house or office without ASIC paperwork

Your registered office stays put no matter where you live or work — no forms, no fees, no risk of statutory mail chasing an old address.

Your accountant opens the mail

ASIC and statutory correspondence is actioned by the practice that already looks after your company — with context, not a mail room. And because we hold your registered office, your AML due diligence is done, monitored and included, so nothing ever holds up a transaction.

Two offerings — every fee up front

Registered Office + ASIC Agent

Complete peace of mind

Your registered office at our Balmain address — statutory and ASIC mail received, actioned and safely stored
We act as your ASIC registered agent — lodgements, company statements and ASIC liaison handled
Annual review managed end to end, including your directors’ solvency resolution
AML due diligence included — identity verification and the ongoing monitoring the law requires, handled for you

$429 per year + ASIC review fee at cost (currently $342)

Getting started: $165 establishment per company, plus a once-only due-diligence fee of $132 covering identity checks for up to two people ($33 each additional person). Charged once across your related companies — never twice for the same people. For a single company that is a one-off of $297 all up.

ASIC Agent only

You have premises of your own

Suits companies with commercial premises where mail is reliably opened every business day
We act as your ASIC registered agent — lodgements, company statements and ASIC liaison handled
Annual review managed end to end, including your directors’ solvency resolution
No routine identity checks — AML due diligence applies only if we later provide a service the rules cover (see when in our FAQs)

$297 per year + ASIC review fee at cost (currently $342)

Getting started: $165 establishment per company (covers the ASIC forms and file set-up, including nominating your registered office address).

Prefer to deal with ASIC yourself? Self-managing is a legitimate choice for directors comfortable tracking their own review dates, lodgement windows and statutory mail. We can step down as your agent and hand everything over cleanly — a one-off $165 covers the ASIC forms. You then manage your annual review and lodgements directly with ASIC.

Other ASIC forms — as you need them

Beyond the annual cycle, company changes come up from time to time. These are our fees for the common ones, so you know before you ask:

Service	Our fee	ASIC fee	Due diligence?
Change of registered address (Form 484A)	$165	—	No
Change of officeholder (Form 484B)	$165	—	No
Change to members / shares (Form 484C)	$165	—	Yes — + $132 due-diligence fee
Change of company name (Form 205)	$165	At cost	No
Voluntary deregistration (Form 6010)	$650	At cost	Yes — + $132 due-diligence fee
Reinstatement (Form 581)	Quoted	At cost	Usually
Minute / resolution (e.g. dividend)	$165	—	No
Identity verification when a new person joins later (e.g. a new director or shareholder) — verification only; the ASIC form to update the company (Form 484, above) is charged separately	$110	—	This fee is the verification
Late annual review payment	—	Currently $102 / $428	No

Where due diligence is required and we already hold current verification for the people involved, there is usually nothing further to do — the fee applies once per group of related companies, not per form. The $33 additional-person rate applies when we verify extra people as part of your initial due diligence; the $110 applies when someone new joins the company later, and covers their identity verification only — the ASIC form to update the company (a Form 484, priced above) is a separate fee. ASIC late fees shown are the rates from 1 July 2026.

Fee notes — no surprises

All fees include GST. ASIC statutory fees are GST-free and passed on at cost — we add no margin, and they change with ASIC’s annual indexation each July. The due-diligence fee is only ever charged once for the same people, however many of your companies we act for. Where a company’s ownership runs through a trust or a foreign entity that we must look through, that additional due-diligence work is quoted separately based on complexity, before we start. And whichever offering you choose, we confirm your exact fees in writing before anything is charged.

Why the identity checks?

From 1 July 2026, providing a registered office is a designated service under Australia’s AML/CTF rules, regulated by AUSTRAC. That means we verify the identity of each director and beneficial owner, keep those records current, and monitor the relationship on an ongoing basis — the same kind of checks your bank performs, applying to every accounting practice in Australia, and not a reflection of any concern about you or your company. If we are only your ASIC agent, there is no routine identity check — our AML/CTF FAQs explain exactly when one would arise, including a plain-English guide to what is and is not a designated service.

Hand it over in five minutes

Tell us which offering suits each of your companies, or ask us to talk it through — we’ll take care of the ASIC paperwork from there.

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Disclaimer: This page is general information about our services and the AML/CTF framework, current at August 2026. It is not legal, tax or financial advice. Fees include GST; ASIC statutory fees are GST-free, passed on at cost, and change with ASIC’s annual indexation. Services are provided subject to the terms of our engagement letter. Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards Legislation.