ABNregistration.com.au

I wish I had seen this before I wasted $146 on this company. I have reported them to the ACCC and whilst what they do is legal, it is unethical that they intentionally mislead people to paying for what is a free service. When I challenged them on this, they had the audacity to say their professional service fee covers their time spent performing… Read more

the task, except the task is completely automated and did not require any human intervention. Sure they spent time establishing the automated process to intentionally fleece people out of money. They are morally reprehensible and should be ashamed.

Do not use – Go directly to the government website to register an ABN for free. This dodgy service will just harvest your personal information and register it the same way, but charge you $99 for the privilege.

You pay for quick service ABN Registration – I got my ABN quickly in 2 mins. All these comments about scam are not entirely true. Yes, an ABN is free under My Gov but for fast service there is a cost going through this site. Yes, I panicked when I read these reviews but I checked it out through my gov and my ABN was processed and is legitimate.

It is not a scam!it just makes application easier – I feel sad for them that they are legit business but then people accused them of being scammers.They are not scammers, it just makes the process easier that is why you have to pay for the service. I got rejected by the exact ABR , the government site because i put in the incorrect info that i was not aware of. So I tried this service, and paid for… Read more

it,so it wont be a hassle. For less than 30 mins, I tried reapplying on the ABR site, government site, as I read the reviews regarding them being a scam, and to my surprise my abn was reactivated with just applying for just a minute of applicatiom for them, saves time for me. Sometimes we just need to pay professionals because they know what is best for us and definitely saves time,they are definitely not scammers

Quick and very easy and helpful – Thank you abn assistance ,I had a very helpful and pleasant experience. No messing around and waiting for time to slip by.answered all my questions and went further to help than I expected.

"Beware: Don't Get Tricked into Paying $99 for a Free ABN!" – I recently had a highly disappointing experience with abnregistration.com.au. As someone unfamiliar with the process, I trusted this site because it appeared at the top of my Google search results. Unfortunately, I was charged $99 for an ABN application, which I later discovered is entirely free through the official government website. To make… Read more

matters worse, within about one minute of making the payment, I contacted their support team asking for a refund, only to be told that my application had already been submitted and could not be cancelled. This felt like a very unfair and misleading practice, and I would caution anyone against using this website.

If you're applying for an ABN, please avoid this site and go directly to the official government website: https://www.abr.gov.au/business-super-funds-charities/applying-abn. I hope this review helps others avoid the mistake I made.

Google is not your friend! – I so wish I had googled this company before my husband went ahead and paid the $99 for our daughter's ABN. I said to him at the time when did you have to start paying for an ABN, we got both of ours years ago & they were free. How little did we know. Now we have to cancel our credit card just in case they try something dodgy. WTH - if this is a known scam website, why is it still allowed to be on the web.

AVOID ENTIRELY – To start, their website is very misleading and you don't discover this until after you pay for the ABN. THEY ARE NOT AFFILIATED WITH THE ATO. They are, and by their own confirmation, simply a middle man pushing in where they are not needed and not requested. I had the option to postpone the commencement date, which I selected and nominated only… Read more

to have them tell me the ATO won't allow it. I ask the question, "Why do you offer it as an option if the ATO won't allow in?" Their response, "Some people like to defer their business starting date" I responded " yes, that is exactly what "I" wanted to do to give time to establish all the usual business arrangements that require an ABN. " At this point they refused to process the application until the date I nominated meaning a delay to the start of business. To add to the annoyance, within 1 hour of submitting the application, I started receiving calls from telemarketers even after OPTING OUT of marketing calls and did not give them permission to pass my information on. My new number is only a week old. When confronted she simply told me it's not her department and acted ignorant. Given this company advertises their "expertise? " in business establishment, their practices are highly questionable, misleading, deceptive, and nothing but a scam. AVOID ENTIRELY. Additional, I just looked for the INV number to submit for proof but their Tax Invoice DOES NOT have one. Happy to supply a copy of what I received from them if requested.

Misleading Conduct to register ABN – Agree with all the reviews here. I thought the government had starting charging for ABN, the form looks almost the same as government site and its not until you have made the payment that the name Honcho comes up in big letters. If the name had come up earlier I would have realised and not gone ahead. Misleading under Section 18 and Section 29… Read more

under the Consumer Affairs Act. Consumer Affairs suggests reporting the incident to ASIC as they are a registered agent for ASIC.

Caution | This is a scam! – 100% a scam. You can register/apply for an ABN for free through official government websites. Instead, make sure that you go to the following websites and do the applications yourself (takes less than 10 minutes): https://www.abr.gov.au/business-super-funds-charities/applying-abn https://abr.business.gov.au/ContactUs/Apply This company does not… Read more

offer a disclaimer or advice stating this; rather, they are quick to take your money for a service that is 100% free via official channels. Therefore, they knowingly capitalise on the wide-eyed excitement and anticipation of people who are excited to start their own business and are doing it by themselves. How many young people have been misinformed/scammed by this company? How many older people who are regenerating their lives have been scammed?

Further, you do not receive a receipt from them. Contacting the agent resulted in vague, deflective comments about the company's overall provision of services.

Gross ethical negligence.

People need to check the website if it has .GOV – People please be aware of the website you are working on. If you guys want to apply something that belongs to government then its website MUST HAVE .GOV.AU. Do not always trust the website that show no.1 on the list. Be careful guys.

Don't pay for an ABN – I wish I'd read these reviews. Registering a business in Australia is FREE. I paid $217 for an ABN and a registered name. I received an ABN and Business registration, but when I asked for a receipt it was sent via Stripe without their business registration. So I paid an unnecessary $217 to a business that may not even be registered.

Misleading company! – I thought I logged into the government website and later on realised I have been ripped off by the fees they have charged me to get an ABN and register my business name. I tried to cancel the business name registration and they said they can do so but they will hold my business name for 10-15 days which will not allow me to register the business… Read more

name on my own. They have advised that they will not cancel the business name registration and would just let the application lapsed. I am assuming they will not pay ASIC so the application just lapses? I am not sure but thought it was very inappropriate of them to hold the business name when I have already cancelled the application. They were trying to convince me to just go ahead with them (and pay $278) to register my business name with them. VERY MISLEADING COMPANY. Hope no else gets baited into their website.

Total scam – Feel like a complete idiot. Paid $99 for an ABN thinking it was a legitimate site: didn’t receive my ABN and subsequently applied via the correct ATO site and received it instantly. Clearly misleading conduct and I will report them to the ACCC. You should do the same if you are reading this!

There is a word but I can't use it – I assisted my son with an ABN and paid for it because of the ridiculous price that was being charged. Went through the process, paid, and got on with business. A friend then told me these @#$%^&* take your money but give you absolutely nothing in return. You can pay ASIC directly. So what the **** is ASIC doing associating with these thieves???? Disgusting. BEWARE!

Scaaaammmers of some sort! Definitely a rort – I googled "apply for abn ATO" clicked on a trusted Australian tax office search result and started filling in the questions and submitted away paid the $533 "registration fee". Somehow, somewhere I've ended up on this website?! Only realised when i got a congrats email from them, thought that was weird for the ato?? I 100000% definitely clicked on… Read more

an ATO website from my google search but it's ended me up here without me realising... I thought I was filling in ATO abn registration. Fml. Has anyone had any luck getting a refund from these jrks?! Wth

Business model set up to mislead consumers into paying for services that are free if the correct channels are used – Honcho/Business Switch PTY LTD has paid google advertising for their website (abnregistration.com.au) to appear at the top of search results when a consumer searches "ABN registration". The website is presented in such a way that is it misleading to the consumer, with an online form that appears up-front for you to enter highly sensitive personal… Read more

information (e.g. TFN, DOB, banking details). It is only until the end of the online form that you are presented with pricing information, and options to add on extras with additional costs (e.g. GST add-ons, etc) - this breaches ACCC laws indicating that pricing information should be presented up-front in a transparent manner. The "services" they provide (e.g. re-register an ABN) are actually free of charge if the consumer went through the correct channels (abr.gov.au). Their business model is set up in such a way that they have carefully crafted their website name and layout to mislead consumers into paying for these "services", and their Terms and Conditions are buried in a disclaimer which has contradictory information, specifically: a clause which indicates that a refund may be offered if an application is withdrawn, however an application cannot be withdrawn because the service is 'automated' (they populate the information you input into the online form directly into the ABN website). It appears that this company has paid for google reviews (which are all, of course, very favourable). **If you have fallen for this then report it to Scamwatch**

This mob is a con!!!!! Unfortunately I had to give this mob a one star to be able to submit this review – I thought I was on the Government site for renewing my ABN. All these guys did was to state they could not progress my application further until I provided more info. In the end I got my accountant to renew my ABN. I should have done this in the first place. I just wasted $188.00.

Scam, sells you ABN registration that is actually free – Can't believe I fell for this, I am normally so good about this stuff But I just got ripped off 100 bucks because Google puts this result above the official one when you are looking to register an ABN This should be illegal

don't be fooled into paying $100 for what the ATO give away – These people pay Google to leapfrog the ATO when searching for registering an ABN and then fleece unsuspecting people who don't realise that their official sounding site is just a front for Honcho and Business Switch. Why is ASIC allowing them to operate like this? Totally unethical

Shocking - $99 stolen from me by giving me misleading information - lying – I asked why it was $99 to reinstate my ABN and would it cost the same through a government site. Honcho said it would cost the same. Outright lie. Stole that money from me. Disgusting.

misleading and expensive with poor service – I used this website accidentally and paid $90 to register for an ABN when it can be done for FREE on the government website in the same time with the same effort. It cannot be cancelled of refunded. In this same transaction I paid to register a Business Name and contacted immediately to cancel ask for refund. They cancelled only the Business Name… Read more

Registration. The email says that I will receive a review from their accounts department in 20 business days and they will keep $48 as an admin fee (and they keep the $90). I have emailed their support to request confirmation of refund and a more reasonable timeframe. The business is called Honcho (they have ABNregistration.com.au and BusinessName.com.au) and I am receiving emails form them promoting products even after I requested no emails. They are charging 4 times the price you can get ABN and Business Name Reg for, this makes them very expensive and it is very hard to get your money back if you cancel. I would never consider getting advice or products through them. I found them to be misleading, expensive and with poor service.

Obviously, it is an agent and third party, not the official ABR – After reading so many reviews, by seeing people say that they think it is the official site for ABN. Hello? Seriously? This site has nothing that looks like the government site. It gives the tax agent and ASIC agent number and absolutely it is a third-party agent. You guys need glasses. lol I am laughing so much at people saying" It is a scam… Read more

because it is free to register via the official". It is really illogical. There are education agents, visa agents, and tourist agents in the market, I am sure you can do everything for free by yourself. However, there are people who have needs and those agents are legitimate.

I really don't understand how come so many people don't read the website content properly and do not read the "Terms and Conditions" before putting in their credit card details?!!!! Especially, when it comes to refunds, has anyone known you cannot change your mind after the purchase according to consumer law? has anyone known not to tick the box of the refund policy and "Terms and conditions", especially when it says no refundable before putting your card number? It is a contract! you guys don't read by tick the agree to a contract ?!

Despite I think people are responsible for their own faults, I want to complain about the charge of this webiste is too expensive, $99 for ABN. $400 something for a business name? seriously, that's a rip-off.

Overpriced scam – I am not familiar with ASIC and government registrations so i just googled it (bad idea) i didnt realize that there were scammers in every corner of this process and i fell upon ABNregistration. The site looked legit and i did read through all of their policies and it all looked correct but when it came to payment i saw the $415 mark and though… Read more

that was a bit off but i figured it was for a 3 year registration so why not. Then i found out from a friend that i should have done it through ASIC, the actual government website and that it would have been a quarter of the price for 5 years. I feel embarrassed and scammed. I did eventually get an ABN and registered business name so they did "do what they advertised" but the fact that they charged a 300% fee on something that i could have done myself is just shameful. Taking money from hard working Australians that don't know any better.