Built for Growth or Built to Break? Rethinking Your Business Structure

Overview:

Most service-based business owners start as sole traders because it’s simple.

Easy to register.
Easy to invoice.
Easy to “figure out later.”

But structure isn’t just admin. It shapes your tax, your risk, your growth, and what happens if life throws you a curveball.

At some point, structure stops being a formality and starts being strategic.

In this live, facilitated conversation, Consulting CFO Shaye Thyer sits down with Alicia Chapman, Tax Agent and small business specialist, to unpack when to rethink your business structure — and how to know it’s time.

We’ll demystify sole traders, companies and trusts without jargon, fear tactics or “you should have done this earlier” shame.

The Details

Thursday 12th March 12:30 AEDT on Zoom

Be sure to keep your eye out for our email from hello@wearepallas.io for the calendar invitation and zoom link.

Your Panel:

Shaye Thyer
Fellow Chartered Accountant, Consulting CFO and financial feminist. Shaye has spent 20 years translating corporate finance into practical clarity for women running service-based businesses.

Alicia Chapman
Tax Agent and small business specialist. Alicia works at the coalface of structure, tax and compliance — helping business owners get it right early, and fix it when they didn’t.

You’ll Walk Away With:

• Clarity on when sole trader genuinely works — and when it doesn’t

• The real triggers that signal it’s time to review your structure

• A plain-English understanding of companies, trusts and liability

• Insight into profit retention, paying yourself, and scaling properly

• A clear explanation of Personal Services Income (PSI) and when “set up a company to save tax” is wrong

• Awareness of the life risks (divorce, death, disputes) most founders never think about

• The milestones that should trigger a structure review

Format

• 45-minute facilitated conversation

• Practical, founder-first discussion

• Real examples from small service-based businesses

• Rapid myth-busting segment

• Live Q&A

If you’ve ever wondered:

“Should I still be a sole trader?”
“Do companies actually save tax?”
“When does a trust make sense?”
“Have I set this up properly?”

This is your hour.

Reserve your seat and bring your questions.

Can’t attend live? Register anyway — the recording will be sent to everyone who signs up.