Hours lost to manual research
Cross-referencing the ATO site, legislation and rulings for a single client question can swallow half a day.
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Countex grounds every answer in verified ATO sources, legislation and case law — then drafts the advice letter. Research that stands up to scrutiny, in minutes not hours.
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LiveWhen does a take-home dual cab ute stay FBT-exempt?
AU Tax Research
Verifying claims against sources…0:00
Searching the ATO corpus
Drafting the answer
Verifying every claim
1 section cleared · 1 source
Answer1 source
ThedualcabuteisonlyFBT-exemptifprivateusestayswithintheATO'scompliancethresholds—PCG 2018/3acceptsprivateusethatisminor, infrequent and irregularwhere:1
- home–work travel diversions add no more than 2 km
- other private travel totals under 1,000 km for the FBT year
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1FBT — exempt use of eligible commercial vehiclesato.gov.au
Exact passage
…private use of the vehicle is minor, infrequent and irregular, such as occasional use to remove domestic rubbish…
ATO corpus — scraped 13 July
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The status quo
Research is slow. Generic AI is dangerous.
Accounting professionals are told to “just use AI” — but the tools weren't built for regulated work, Australian law, or the standard of proof your clients depend on.
Generic AI can't be trusted
Consumer chatbots hallucinate sections, invent rulings and cite law that was repealed years ago.
Every answer carries risk
In a regulated profession, one unverified figure in an advice letter is a professional-liability event.
Knowledge trapped in silos
Precedents, working papers and client history live in inboxes and drives no one can search.
The Countex approach
One platform, engineered for provable answers.
Retrieval-augmented research, verified citations, and professional workflows — grounded exclusively in authoritative Australian sources.
RAG engine
Grounded in verified authority, never guesswork
Countex retrieves the exact legislation, rulings and guidance relevant to your query, reasons over them, then re-checks every claim against the source before it reaches you.
Queryyour question
Retrieveauthority
Reasongrounded
Verifyclaim-checked
Citeproof
Australian tax law
ITAA, GST Act, rulings, PCGs and case law — current and continuously updated.
Advice letters
Generate client-ready advice with citations woven in and audit-ready.
AI Skills
Reusable, structured workflows for the tasks your practice runs weekly.
MCP integrations
Connect Xero, MYOB, Outlook and your document stack.
Enterprise security
Australian data residency, encryption and full audit trails.
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Move from question to verified answer to client-ready deliverable without leaving Countex.
Div 7A loan — minimum yearly repayment for FY24
Answer97.1% confidence
The benchmark interest rate for FY24 is 8.27%[1]. The minimum yearly repayment is calculated on the opening loan balance under the formula in s109E(6)[2], and must be met by 30 June to avoid a deemed dividend.
Benchmark rate
8.27%
Deadline
30 Jun 24
Provision
Div 7A
Reasoning trace
1
Retrieved
ITAA 1936 Div 7A · TD 2023/9
2
Cross-checked
Benchmark rate against ATO table
3
Verified
Formula inputs & FY dates
4
Grounded
2 primary sources cited
Citation verification
Trace every word back to its source.
Countex doesn't ask you to trust it — it shows its work. Expand any citation to read the exact passage, its ruling type, and a source-confidence score.
Authoritative sources only
Restricted to the ATO, legislation registers and recognised case law — no open web.
Passage-level highlighting
See the precise paragraph that supports each claim, not a vague link.
Confidence scoring
A transparent score per source so you know where to apply judgement.
Source inspector 3 verified
Legislations8-1(1)(a)
“You can deduct from your assessable income any loss or outgoing to the extent that it is incurred in gaining or producing your assessable income.”
View on ATO Legal DatabasePractical Compliance Guideline[15]–[18]
“The revised fixed rate of 67 cents per work hour covers energy, internet, mobile and home phone, and stationery for the income year.”
View on ATO Legal DatabaseTaxation Ruling[10]
“Where an area of the home has the character of a place of business, a portion of running and occupancy expenses may be deductible.”
View on ATO Legal DatabaseAI Skills
Structured workflows for the work you do every week.
Skills package expert reasoning into repeatable, auditable procedures — so the whole practice works to the same standard, every time.
Div 7A Compliance
Company · structured skill
1
Load loan agreements from client file
2
Calculate minimum yearly repayment
3
Check benchmark rate (TD 2023/9)
4
Flag deemed-dividend risk & draft note
Run this skill
MCP integrations
Connected to the tools your practice already runs.
Through the Model Context Protocol, Countex securely reads context from your ledger, mailbox and document stores — so research is grounded in each client's real position.
Xero
MYOB
Outlook
OneDrive
DocuSign
Karbon
Xero
MYOB
Outlook
OneDrive
DocuSign
Karbon
From hours to minutes
The same rigour, a fraction of the time.
What used to be an afternoon of manual cross-referencing becomes a guided flow from question to export.
Traditional workflow
~4 hrsper query
With Countex
6 minto verified export
Manual researchCross-reference sources
Countex AIRetrieve & reason
Verified answerCitations checked
Advice letterDrafted & annotated
ExportPDF · Word · file
Why professionals trust Countex
Built to a standard of proof, not persuasion
0%
Answers cited
every claim sourced
0 hrs
Saved per query
vs manual research
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Source passages
Australian authority
Enterprise security
Compliance-grade by design.
Countex meets the security bar of the profession it serves — so your data, and your clients', stays protected.
Australian data residencyAPP compliant
Australian data residency
Client data is stored and processed within Australian sovereign infrastructure.
Encrypted end-to-end
AES-256 at rest and TLS 1.3 in transit across every request and document.
Full audit trail
Every query, source and export is logged and immutable for your records.
SSO & role controls
SAML/OIDC single sign-on with granular, role-based access per matter.
No training on your data
Your firm's data is never used to train models. Ever. Contractually.
Private deployment
VPC and single-tenant options for practices with elevated requirements.
How Countex compares
Purpose-built beats general-purpose.
The difference between a tool that helps you draft, and one you can rely on in front of a client or the ATO.
Capability
Countex
Generic AI
Manual
Questions
Answers, verified
Everything a diligent practice asks before trusting a new tool.
Countex retrieves exclusively from authoritative Australian sources — ATO guidance and rulings, the Federal Register of Legislation, and recognised case law. It never draws on the open web, and it won't answer beyond what it can cite.
General AI generates from memory and will confidently invent sections or rulings. Countex is retrieval-augmented with a verification gate: every claim is re-checked against a retrieved source, scored for confidence, and dropped if unsupported. You get a defensible answer, not a plausible one.
No. Your firm's data is never used to train any model, and that commitment is contractual. Data is encrypted in transit and at rest, with full audit logging.
Within Australian sovereign infrastructure by default. Enterprise plans can add a data-residency SLA, single-tenant isolation, or private VPC deployment.
Yes. Through the Model Context Protocol, Countex securely reads context from Xero, MYOB, Outlook, OneDrive, DocuSign and Karbon — so research can be grounded in each client's actual position.
No — it accelerates it. Countex surfaces the sources, the reasoning and a confidence score so you can apply expertise faster and with more certainty. The professional stays firmly in the loop.
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