Evidence-led business valuations for Melbourne businesses.
Specialist valuations for Melbourne-based private companies, trusts and partnerships. CGT events, restructures, related-party transfers and small business CGT concession matters. From $1,495 + GST.
Oliver Group provides evidence-led business valuation services to Melbourne businesses, accountants and lawyers. Our reports support CGT events, restructures, related-party transfers, share buybacks and small business CGT concession matters. Reports are prepared in accordance with ATO market valuation guidance.
We value businesses, not real property. If you need land, premises or a dwelling valued, you need a certified practising valuer, which is not what we do. Where an engagement involves both, we value the business and separate the land component for a suitably qualified valuer.
State-specific considerations.
Victorian engagements may involve consideration of the Duties Act 2000 (Vic) and Victorian state revenue requirements for related-party transfers. We work alongside the client's lawyer or tax adviser on these dimensions.
What actually differs in VIC.
Victorian duty does not apply to business goodwill.
Victoria abolished duty on transfers of non-land business assets from 1 July 2012, so goodwill, intellectual property and plant generally move without duty here. What still matters for the valuation is that land and land-like interests are separated cleanly from goodwill, because the treatment of the two diverges sharply. A Melbourne valuation that lumps them together creates a problem that a Sydney one might not.
Landholder duty turns on how the land is valued, not the business.
Where a Victorian entity holds land above the landholder threshold, acquiring a significant interest in that entity can attract landholder duty assessed on the underlying land. This is the single most common reason a Melbourne share transfer needs a valuation that isolates land value explicitly. We prepare that separation and the working file behind it. The duty position itself is a question for your lawyer or the State Revenue Office.
The commercial and industrial property transition changes holding costs.
From 1 July 2024 Victoria began moving commercial and industrial property out of stamp duty and into an annual Commercial and Industrial Property Tax. Where a Melbourne business owns or occupies its own premises, that shifts the ongoing cost assumptions sitting inside a maintainable earnings calculation. We normalise for it rather than carrying a historical figure forward unexamined.
Melbourne earnings need normalising for a different cost base.
Victorian payroll tax thresholds and WorkCover premiums differ from other states, and Melbourne commercial rents behave differently again across the CBD, the inner north and the western industrial corridor. Where a business has moved premises or crossed a payroll tax threshold mid-period, the reported profit understates or overstates maintainable earnings. Adjusting for that is ordinary work here and it is where a generic valuation goes wrong.
Industries we commonly value in Melbourne.
- ·Medical and dental practices
- ·Professional services firms
- ·Manufacturing and wholesale
- ·Trades and construction
- ·Hospitality and food service
Melbourne questions we get asked.
Do you need to visit our Melbourne premises?
Usually not. Most Melbourne engagements run entirely on documents and a call, and we work nationally on that basis. Where the business turns on physical assets, stock or a specific site, we will say so at scoping and arrange an inspection or engage a specialist for that component rather than guess at it.
How much does a business valuation cost in Melbourne?
The same as anywhere else in Australia, because our fees are fixed and published rather than set by location or by the size of the answer. An Indicative Snapshot starts at $990 + GST and a signed Essential report at $1,495 + GST. There is no hourly billing and the fee is agreed in writing before the work starts.
Do you prepare valuations for Family Court matters in Melbourne?
Yes. Family law valuations are one of the areas we work in, and in those matters the parties commonly appoint a single expert jointly. Our independence is structural rather than promised: we do not act for either side in the underlying dispute, we do not sell businesses, and our fee never depends on the figure we reach.
Is a valuation from our Melbourne accountant enough for the ATO?
It depends entirely on the working file behind it, not on who signed it. The ATO does not pre-approve valuations and does not prescribe a credential. What it looks for is a documented methodology, evidence for each assumption and a valuer whose independence is evident. An accountant who also prepares the returns that rely on the number has an independence problem that is visible on the face of the report.
How long does a Melbourne business valuation take?
Ten to fourteen business days for a signed Essential report, and fifteen to twenty-five for a Comprehensive one, measured from when we have complete financials. Rush delivery is available at thirty per cent of the base fee. The clock starts on complete information, so incomplete records are the usual cause of delay.
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Fixed fees from $1,495 + GST · 10–35 business days