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Welcome to OBT Financial Group
From simplifying tax to helping you run a better business, OBT designs tailored advice and solutions that benefit you. Brett Garmeister and the OBT team work closely with small and medium businesses – from start-ups to succession and into retirement – to grow your business, personal wealth and enable your desired lifestyle by ensuring you take advantage of technology and keep your finger on the pulse.
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OBT's Building Blocks©
A common purpose evident amongst our clients is the ability to provide financial security for themselves and their families both during their working lives as well as in retirement. We help achieve this by proactively stepping our clients through OBT's Building Blocks© to ensure their financial security is achieved.
Client Case Studies
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Dr Angela is an out of this world author
In our feature client story, read about a Lockyer Valley MD and OBT client who adopted a pen name and published three intergalactic novels in two years.
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Mariki and Francois Visser, Native Beeings
In just three years, they’ve established a boutique hobby business, keeping 400 hives and selling their Native Bee propolis worldwide. OBT Financial Group is helping Mariki and Francois Visser make the transition from bee-ing employees to business owners.
Accountants
OBT Financial Group are Gatton and Esk based, offering a complete range of services including accounting & tax, financial planning, business consulting and business advice to name a few.
Our highly qualified team of business and tax accountants offer a wide range of financial expertise, experience and are a dedicated to the ongoing success and financial security of our clients.
Accounting Taxation Rules
Accounting obligations and taxation rules are continuously changing. We are solidly positioned to assist our clients in optimising their business, investment and taxation affairs. We understand the challenges business owners face in trying to deal with these regularly changing accounting obligations and complex taxation rules. This is why our business consultants build strong relationships with our clients helping them succeed in every business avenue that they undertake. OBT Financial Group's accountants care about your financial success and your financial requirements and will advise you on the most effective way to manage your accounting.
OBT's accountants work with individuals and business owners in the Lockyer Valley, Brisbane Valley and throughout QLD.


Build your financial security with OBT Financial Group – Lockyer Valley Business of the Year recipients and specialist financial advisers to individuals, business owners and farming families on accounting, tax, business advice and wealth planning for over 40 years.
