Darkwave Consulting

Darkwave Consulting is a chartered accounting firm in Fitzroy, Melbourne, with deep roots in the music business. It acts as accountant and tax agent for artists and the companies around them, and extends the same services to film, the arts and many other sectors. Its staff handle both Australian and international tax, including royalties.

What Darkwave Consulting offers

• Bookkeeping and back office: payments, invoicing and debt collection.
• Management accounts: monthly profit and loss and balance sheet reports with analysis.
• Tax returns: preparation and lodgement of income tax returns.
• Business statements: business and instalment activity statements and fringe benefits tax returns.
• Tour and project costings: planning the costs of tours and productions.
• Royalties and international tax: financial management for artists earning abroad.

Clients

• Musicians, managers, labels, publishers, promoters, venues and festivals
• Film and TV producers, talent and crew, plus theatre and visual artists
• Software and web firms, hospitality, fashion, medical, legal and property businesses
• Not-for-profits and charities

Key facts

• Based in: Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia
• Music experience: 20 years of accounting in the music industry