EOFY approaches. Your accountant rings about a ‘tax planning meeting’. Two weeks before 30 June. You go in, they suggest a few quick deductions, maybe a super contribution. You sign something, write a cheque, and call it tax planning.
Six months later, the return shows the same tax bill as last year. Structure unchanged. Distribution mix identical. The CGT on that share sale you made in November went exactly as it would have if nobody had thought about it. The ‘planning’ was a tidy-up, not a plan.
Real tax planning is not a meeting; it is a year. Decisions made in July compound into October’s return. Concessions get identified before they apply, not after. Trinity builds tax planning into the year as a quarterly cadence rather than a single pre-EOFY conversation.