What changes for small business on 1 July

The headline change on 1 July is for employers: the super guarantee rate went up from 11.5% to 12% for wages paid from 1 July 2025. The quieter change touches every business with a registration, because ASIC fees moved too.

ASIC fees usually change on 1 July each year with indexation. That covers registering and renewing a business name, the yearly company review fee and most other ASIC fees. The increase is normally small, but a renewal or review paid after 1 July may cost slightly more than the same thing did last year. If you keep a budget line for these, nudge it up. When you renew or pay through us, the price at checkout already includes the current ASIC fee.

This is general information. Your accountant can tell you how any of it applies to your business.

A good month to look at your registrations

July is a natural point to step back from the day to day. A change is easier to make at the start of a year than in the middle of one, and registrations are the part that gets skipped.

Start with your trading name. If you trade under a name that is not your own personal name or your company's exact name, that name has to be registered as a business name and kept renewed. It is easy to drift into using a slightly different name over a few years, or to let an old one run close to lapsing.

Renewing with us is short. You search your business name in the renewal box on our business names page, choose a one or three year term and pay. The ASIC renewal fee is included in our price, so there is nothing separate to pay ASIC. If you need a new name instead, you search it on the same page to see if it is available, give the holder's details (an ABN is needed first), pay, and we lodge the registration with ASIC.

Then your structure. A sole trader who has grown a lot, or brought in a partner, may find a company now suits them better. That is a conversation for your accountant. If the answer is a company, we register proprietary companies limited by shares: you check the name, enter the directors, shareholders and registered office on our form, pay, and we lodge it with ASIC and send you the ACN. An ABN application for the company can go in the same order.

Every company has a review date, usually the anniversary of its registration. Around that date ASIC sends an annual statement and an invoice for the review fee. The fee has to be paid each year to keep the company in good standing, and with fees indexed on 1 July, the next invoice may be a little higher than the last one.

Not sure when your review date is? It is on your last annual statement, or our team can look it up for you. When the fee falls due, you can pay it through our company review page. You search for the company and pay us, we pay the ASIC review fee for you, and we email you a solvency resolution document for the directors to sign.

The contact details behind it all

Renewal notices and annual statements go to whatever email and postal address is on the record. If that is an old inbox, or belonged to a staff member who has since left, the notice still gets sent and the due date passes without anyone seeing it. A lapsed business name or an overdue review is far more work to sort out than a renewal paid on time.

If you are not sure which of your registrations fall due in the coming months, or which address the reminders are going to, our team can check for you on 1300 070 000, Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm Melbourne time.