Cepaos for Australian wineries · Native compliance
From Barossa to Margaret River, from Wine Australia's Label Integrity Programme to the WET figures for your BAS: Wine Australia Act 2013, WET, GI Register and APP Privacy in one platform. Lodgement with the ATO stays with you or your BAS agent.
30-min guided demo · APP + GDPR aligned
14 pillars of native Australian compliance
Cepaos covers the full Australian regulatory perimeter under a single subscription, from the Wine Australia Label Integrity Programme through the GI Register and WET Producer Rebate, to the WET figures for the quarterly BAS.
Wine Australia Regulations 2018, ss 25-27; Wine Australia Act 2013 Part VIA (LIP)
Cepaos checks the 85 per cent vintage, variety and geographical-indication blending rules across every bottling record, batch ledger and label artwork file, and assembles the LIP audit pack that Wine Australia inspectors request without manual reconciliation.
Wine Australia Act 2013 (Cth) Part VIB
Australian Geographical Indications from Wine Australia's register (Barossa, McLaren Vale, Margaret River, Hunter Valley, Yarra Valley, Coonawarra, Adelaide Hills, Eden Valley, Clare Valley, Tasmania, Mornington Peninsula, King Valley and other zones, regions and sub-regions) are checked at vineyard ingest and again at labelling.
A New Tax System (Wine Equalisation Tax) Act 1999
Cepaos calculates the 29 per cent Wine Equalisation Tax at the last wholesale sale, distinguishes assessable dealings from notional wholesale sales for cellar-door and direct-to-consumer channels, and posts the WET liability to the BAS worksheet with full audit trail.
WET Act 1999, Producer Rebate Scheme
The producer-rebate cap ($400,000 per financial year from 1 July 2026; $350,000 from 1 July 2018 to 30 June 2026) is tracked across associated producers, and the rebate is shown per quarter for your BAS. Eligibility (own trademark, containers of 5 L or less, at least 85% source-product ownership) is your responsibility; Cepaos records the data you need to assess it.
Excise Tariff Act 1921, Schedule
Cepaos keeps fortified lots and their alcohol strength segregated in the cellar book, so your excise adviser has the stock and movement records at hand. Cepaos does not calculate Australian excise duty or prepare the excise return.
A New Tax System (GST) Act 1999
Cepaos applies 10 per cent GST on your invoices and gives you the WET figures for each quarter (labels 1C payable and 1D refundable). It does not build the full BAS (G1 to G20, 1A and 1B) and does not lodge anything with the ATO: your accountant or registered BAS agent prepares and lodges the BAS.
Taxation Administration Act 1953, Pt 2-5
Cepaos does not run payroll and does not report pay events under STP Phase 2. Keep reporting each pay run from your payroll software (Xero Payroll, MYOB or similar) to the ATO.
ATO + Treasury mandate (from 2024)
Cepaos is not a Peppol access point and has no Peppol connection in Australia: it neither sends nor imports Peppol invoices. If you e-invoice, you do it through your own accounting package and access point.
Xero contact and invoice sync
Cepaos is not your accountant, and is not trying to be. Cepaos connects to your Xero organisation and syncs contacts and invoices, so your accountant or bookkeeper keeps the chart of accounts and ATO lodgement. There is no MYOB export.
What Cepaos is NOT
Cepaos operates with a defined scope. Where the regulator, the laboratory, the registered tax agent or the freight carrier owns the work, we say so on the record.
Cepaos gives you the WET figures for each quarter and syncs contacts and invoices to Xero. Your accountant or registered BAS / tax agent prepares the BAS, lodges it with the ATO and signs off on the final return.
Cepaos manages your analytical record, SO2, pH, TA, alcohol, malic, VA, but does not run the physical sample chemistry. Vintessential, AWRI Commercial Services and your in-house lab continue to perform the assays; Cepaos ingests their results.
Cepaos LLC is a Wyoming corporation. Customer data is encrypted and stored with Supabase in São Paulo, Brazil (AWS sa-east-1), with daily backups; application servers run in the United States. Cross-border disclosure is documented under APP 8, and every sub-processor is published.
For LIP audit submissions and export-grading samples, Cepaos documents, schedules and tracks the dispatch, generating the Wine Australia consignment metadata. The actual freight (StarTrack, TNT, FedEx) is arranged and paid by the winery.
Cepaos vs the Australian wine-software market
The table reflects publicly documented capability as at 2026. Where Cepaos is weaker, physical sample chemistry, full Australian data centre, we show it as such. For corrections, write to hello@cepaos.com.
| Capability | Cepaos | vintrace | Ekos | Vintessential | AWRI Tools |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Label Integrity Programme audit pack (Wine Australia) | |||||
| Geographical Indication register validation at ingest | |||||
| WET wholesale + Producer Rebate ($400k cap from 1 July 2026) | |||||
| WET figures for the BAS (1C, 1D) | |||||
| Single Touch Payroll Phase 2 export | |||||
| PEPPOL BIS 3.0 e-Invoicing (ATO framework) | |||||
| Vineyard block + phenology (deep agronomy) | |||||
| Lab chemistry, physical sample analysis | |||||
| Australian-resident data centre | |||||
| Multi-region + multi-locale (DE/FR/IT/ES/PT/EN-AU) |
Legend: ✓ fully supported native · ◐ partial or via third party · ✗ not supported
Hosting, residency and DPA
Cepaos LLC is a Wyoming corporation. Customer data is encrypted and stored with Supabase in São Paulo, Brazil (AWS sa-east-1), with daily backups; application servers run in the United States. Cross-border disclosure is documented under APP 8. A Data Processing Agreement aligned with the Australian Privacy Principles (Privacy Act 1988) is available from hello@cepaos.com.
Questions Australian wineries actually ask
Yes. Cepaos checks the 85 per cent blending rules in sections 25-27 of the Wine Australia Regulations 2018, substantiated through the Label Integrity Program (Wine Australia Act 2013, Part VIA), across every bottling record and batch ledger. When Wine Australia requests a Label Integrity Programme audit, the platform assembles the vintage, variety and Geographical Indication chain-of-evidence in the format inspectors expect.
Cepaos tracks Wine Equalisation Tax on each assessable dealing and applies the producer rebate (capped at $400,000 per financial year from 1 July 2026 — $350,000 for 2018-19 to 2025-26 — shared by associated producers as a group). The rebate ledger reconciles with the BAS worksheet, and approaches to the cap are flagged in-app before the rebate is over-claimed.
No. Cepaos does not lodge anything with the ATO. It gives you the WET figures for each quarter (labels 1C and 1D); the full BAS is prepared and lodged by you or your registered tax or BAS agent. Cepaos does not run payroll or STP.
No. Cepaos is not a Peppol access point and has no Peppol connection in Australia: it neither sends nor imports Peppol invoices. PEPPOL BIS Billing 3.0 invoices are issued and sent from your own accounting package or access point.
Cepaos LLC is a Wyoming corporation. Customer data is encrypted and stored with Supabase in São Paulo, Brazil (AWS sa-east-1), with daily backups; application servers run in the United States. Cross-border disclosure is documented under APP 8, and a Data Processing Agreement aligned with the Australian Privacy Principles is available from hello@cepaos.com.
Cepaos checks Geographical Indications from the register kept under Part VIB of the Wine Australia Act 2013, including zones, regions and sub-regions. Every vineyard block carries its GI assignment at ingest; the label artwork workflow re-validates the GI against the blend composition before approval.
With Xero, yes: Cepaos connects to your Xero organisation and syncs contacts and invoices. There is no MYOB export. The winery's accountant continues to own the chart of accounts and the ATO lodgement workflow.
A 30-minute guided demo, no commitment. We walk you through Australian GI data and a WET ledger with live data.
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