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Corporate trustee

Register a special-purpose trustee company.

$699 to register ($611 ASIC fee + $88 service). SMSF sole-purpose trustees then qualify for the discounted $67/year ASIC annual fee — a $262 saving every year vs a standard Pty Ltd.

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What are you setting up?

  • Sole trader
  • Pty Ltd company
  • Trustee company

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  • Company Registration$699
  • ABN Package$99
  • Business Name (3 yr)$89
Total$887

Lodging with ASIC

Direct to the regulator

  • Company name approved
  • Director ID verified
  • Constitution generated

Registered

Northside Holdings Pty Ltd

ACN
678 901 234
ABN
12 678 901 234
Business name
Northside Trading
Documents in your inbox · Total time: 4 min 32 s

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ASIC Registered Agent #53096
DSP Approved by ASIC
Australian owned · Brisbane
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Why a corporate trustee

With individual trustees, every asset of the trust is legally titled in the trustees' personal names. When someone resigns, passes away, or is replaced, every asset has to be re-titled — expensive, disruptive, and sometimes impossible if the assets are overseas or on a register that charges for every change.

A corporate trustee is a company whose only job is to act as trustee. The company owns the trust's assets. When directors change, the company keeps existing — no re-titling, no scramble.

A corporate trustee also limits personal liability. Individual trustees are personally liable for trust obligations unless explicitly indemnified — a company trustee's directors are not (subject to the usual director duties).

Why a special-purpose constitution

ASIC charges a standard $329/year annual review fee for a regular Pty Ltd. If the company's sole purpose is acting as trustee of a self-managed super fund (and the constitution says so), ASIC registers it as a special purpose company and applies the discounted $67/yearfee instead. That's a $262/year saving, every year, for the life of the company.

Trustees of family and other trusts don't qualify for the special purpose fee — ASIC reserves it for super trustees, home unit companies, and not-for-profits — so they pay the standard $329/year. The trustee-only constitution still matters: it keeps liability cleanly inside the trustee role. If your company will also trade or hold non-trust assets, our Company Registration product is the right pick — same $699 to register, just with the standard constitution that doesn't lock down what the company can do.

What you get, for $699

  • Pty Ltd special-purpose company registration lodged with ASIC
  • ACN issued
  • Trustee-specific constitution (SMSF sole-purpose trustees qualify for the discounted $67/year ASIC annual review fee)
  • ASIC Certificate of Incorporation
  • Share certificates, member register, consent forms, first minutes
  • Structly account with dashboard access

See it in action

Track everything in one dashboard

Watch your company, ABN and business name move from lodged to registered in real time — ACN, documents and statuses all in one clean place.

Structly customer dashboard showing a company registration with its ACN, ABN and business-name statuses

A guided, plain-English application

No legal jargon, no ASIC forms to decode. A short guided flow asks for exactly what's needed, step by step — then we lodge it directly with ASIC.

Structly's guided, multi-step company registration form

Your documents, the moment it's registered

Your Certificate of Registration and full company document pack land in your dashboard the instant ASIC registers you — ready to download.

Structly registration-complete screen with the certificate and company documents ready to download

You'll need a trust deed too

Structly's Phase 2 document generator will handle this — for now, the Institute of Public Accountants directory lists accountants who specialise in trust setups. A standard family trust deed usually runs $300–$800.

Good fit when

  • You're setting up a family discretionary trust with a corporate trustee
  • You're setting up an SMSF that requires a corporate trustee
  • You're setting up a unit trust with a corporate trustee
  • The company's only job is to act as trustee

Probably not a fit when

  • The company will also trade or hold non-trust assets (use Company Registration instead)

Check our credentials before you pay.

ASIC Registered Agent #53096

Listed on the official ASIC agent register. Here to lodge on your behalf.

Brisbane-based

Real humans, Queensland-registered, support you can ring: 07 4520 7394.

Trust sorted.

$699 to register the trustee company. SMSF sole-purpose trustees then pay $67/yr in ASIC fees instead of $329/yr — a $262 saving every year for the life of the company.

Register for $699