KeaBooks · for contractors and freelancers
Never be surprised by a tax bill again.
Provisional tax lands on 28 August, 15 January and 7 May. GST is due the 28th of the month after your period ends, except when it isn't. Miss one and it costs you. KeaBooks works the dates out from Inland Revenue's own deadlines and tells you what is coming.
Built for sole traders, tradies, freelance designers and developers, consultants, and anyone who invoices for their own time and dreads tax season.
- Every GST, provisional and end-of-year date, worked out from IRD's deadlines.
- A GST worksheet: what you collected, what you can claim, what to pay.
- Tell it which categories are business, and it stops counting your groceries.
- You keep your own bank account and your own clients. No middleman taking a cut.
How it works
KeaBooks is live now, free while it is young, and inside the app you already have if you use KeaBudget.
Answer four questions
Are you GST registered, how often do you file, which two-monthly cycle did IRD give you, do you have an accountant. None of that can be worked out from your transactions, and every one of them changes your dates.
See what is coming
Every GST return, provisional instalment, terminal tax and return date, in order, with the days remaining. Dates that fall on a weekend or public holiday are moved the way IRD moves them, and the page says so rather than looking wrong.
Know the numbers
Mark which categories are business (a home office can be 60%, not yes or no) and you get a GST worksheet: collected, claimable, net to pay. Tell us last year's residual income tax and each provisional instalment gets an estimate too.
While you wait, the free contractor take-home calculator shows what you really keep after GST set-aside, income tax and ACC.
Free while it is young
Start with your dates
KeaBooks sits inside KeaBudget, so it is one signup for both. The personal budgeting app is free forever. The contractor side is free while we build it out. When it leaves beta it will be $19 a month or $190 a year with bank sync included and a 30-day free trial: for context, Hnry takes a percentage of everything you earn and Xero is a flat monthly subscription, and that comes in under both.
Start using KeaBudget →Already have an account? KeaBooks is in the app nav, with your tax calendar, GST worksheet, invoices, receipts, tax-date reminders and a read-only accountant link.