Don Griffin

Griffin Group is a family business and has fast tracked innovation for many years. A large system design and programming team created Griffin Group’s own professional practice management software. The entire practice operates from the cloud and its cutting-edge platform facilitates remote employment for a huge team of accountants.

Griffin Group businesses specialise in the areas of individual online tax returns and small and medium enterprise accounting and tax returns including companies, trusts, partnerships and superannuation returns.

Etax Accountants is part of the Griffin Group and is Australia's leading online tax preparation company and the third largest tax agent in Australia. Griffin Group businesses have been the leaders in online taxation services for over 15 years. 

As a Chartered Management Consultant Don has engaged with many Asia-based companies and helped them gain entry to Australian Markets. In the 1980s many Japanese companies with interests in tourism sought an Australian base. More recently Singapore, Vietnamese and Chinese companies are interested.

Don’s leadership promotes a benevolent attitude to clients: We are committed to delivering kind, calm and professional service while striving for the highest levels of accounting excellence, independence and confidentially. The result: Many clients and staff have been with the group for 34 years and our main source of growth is from referral by satisfied clients. 

Griffin Group is open to relationships with accountants and tax agents worldwide; our ongoing investment in cloud based tax lodgement and practice management software and our expertise in scalable accounting practice design may be made available to global partners who could capitalise on market advantages like those we have created in Australia. We look forward to any enquiries from interested IR members who hold relevant licenses for providing tax related services in their countries.

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Don Griffin has helped Australians with tax advice for over 35 years. 

Directorships 

CEO, Etax Accountants   www.etax.com.au

CEO, Griffin Group Accountants    www.ggaccountants.com.au

Director, DPA Property Group   www.dpaproperty.com.au

Academic Qualifications

B Bus,  FCPA,  MBA,  CMC,  Dip Fin Planning,  G. Dip Journalism

Serving tax and accounting clients across Australia for over 35 years, Don Griffin is the founder of Griffin Group Accountants and Etax Accountants. Don has mentored a huge body of accountants over the years, often meeting them as graduates and helping them become successful CPAs, Tax Agents and Public Accountants.

As CEO, Don helps drive innovation forward in the efficient use of online systems to deliver professional services to clients – adapting to modern changes in where, when and how people want to receive financial services.

The Griffin Group is a family business and has fast tracked innovation for many years with a large group of employed system design and programming specialists writing dedicated professional practice management software. The entire professional practice operates from the cloud and has an Australia wide platform with many remote employees. 

Don commenced practice in Brisbane in 1978 and built a network of accounting offices throughout Queensland. A Certified Management Consultant, Don served as Chairman of the Queensland Government Consultants Advisory Committee for three years. Don participates frequently in computing, taxation and accounting conferences nationally.

Community service is important to the Griffin family; for Don’s contribution as the founder of the Lest We Forget Runs developed across Australia, Don received the Prime Minister’s Sport Recognition Award. Don was the first Australian to complete a marathon on all seven continents of the world. He has completed over 50 marathons – and counting – half of them at challenging international locations. Don’s wife Trish (also a marathon runner) and their five children are all qualified Accountants, directly involved in the family accounting businesses.

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