Patrick Sargent CA

Patrick Sargent is a Chartered Accountant and registered tax agent who specialises in one thing: getting Australians out of overdue tax. Most of his work involves clients who are two, five or ten years behind on income tax returns or BAS, often with a growing ATO debt and, by the time they call, some form of ATO action already underway.

That focus shapes how the work is done - reconstructing records where receipts are long gone, lodging a full backlog in the right order so the debt figure becomes real, then applying for remission of failure to lodge penalties and general interest charge and negotiating a payment plan the client can actually sustain. He reviews every guide published on TaxNudge before it goes live.

Every guide published on TaxNudge is drafted against primary sources - ATO published guidance, the Taxation Administration Act 1953, and Tax Practitioners Board material - and reviewed by a registered tax agent before publication.

Rates and thresholds (penalty units, the general interest charge, lodgement due dates) are held in a single central source and updated site-wide when the ATO changes them, rather than being typed into individual pages. Each guide shows the sources checked and the date it was last professionally reviewed.

Guides are general information, not personal advice. Outcomes on penalties, remission and payment plans depend on individual facts and ATO decisions.