Raise the invoice — BukMasta posts the double entry, moves the stock, books the cost of sale and captures the GST for you. Then, when the period closes, it fills your GST return on the IRC’s own form and lodges it with the IRC for you. Accounting, POS and payroll in one system that does the bookkeeping and the filing while you run the business. It opens to the country at 00:00, Port Moresby time, on 16 September — the morning the nation marks 51 years of Political Independence.
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On 16 September 1975 Papua New Guinea took its flag, its name and its future into its own hands. Fifty-one years on, the work our founders started is not finished — because a country is not truly independent until its economy is its own.
Political independence was won in a single day. Economic independence is won one business at a time — by the trade store in Goroka, the PMV operator in Lae, the guesthouse in Kokopo, the security firm in Port Moresby, the coffee block in the Highlands and the fishing crew in Kavieng. Every one of them is a piece of the national economy. Every one of them keeps a family, a clan, a village going.
And nearly every one of them lives or dies on the same thing: the books. Not the product. Not the customers. The books. A business that cannot see its own cashflow cannot survive a slow month. A business without records cannot answer the IRC, cannot lodge its GST, cannot pay its Salary or Wages Tax with confidence, and cannot walk into a bank and ask for the loan that would take it from five staff to fifty. Good bookkeeping is not paperwork. It is the lifeline of business survival.
And here is the hard truth: most Papua New Guinean businesses do not keep their books badly because they do not care. They keep them badly because proper double-entry accounting has always demanded a trained accountant, and there are not enough of them to go around — certainly not in every district and every trade store in this country. So the answer could never be to ask harder. The answer had to be to automate the accounting itself.
That is what BukMasta is: a complete Automated Accounting System. You do the thing you already do — raise the invoice, record the payment, ring up the sale, run the fortnight’s payroll — and the system does the accounting behind it. The debits and credits post themselves. The stock moves. The cost of sale is worked out. The GST is captured on every transaction as it happens, so your Form G1 is built from entries already recorded rather than reconstructed from a shoebox at the end of the period. Your accounts stay balanced because nothing was ever entered by hand to get out of balance.
And then it files. On the due date BukMasta fills the IRC’s own G1 with your figures and lodges the return for you, keeping the reference, the timestamp and the exact form that went as your proof of filing. Missing a GST deadline is one of the commonest and most expensive mistakes a small business in this country makes, and it is almost never deliberate — it is a busy owner with a shop to run and a date that came around. So we took the date off the owner’s shoulders. You cannot forget a deadline the software meets for you.
For too long, that lifeline has been imported — foreign software, priced in foreign currency, built for foreign tax systems, supported from foreign time zones, and out of reach of the very businesses that carry this country. So we built our own. BukMasta is made in Papua New Guinea, for Papua New Guinea: kina first, GST Form G1, Salary or Wages Tax, fortnightly payroll, superannuation, and a price an ordinary PNG business can actually afford.
We are releasing it on the eve of Independence Day on purpose. This is our contribution — a small one beside what our founders gave, but ours to give: put a proper, automated set of books in the hands of every business in the country, whether or not it can afford an accountant, and let the strength of the national economy be built from the ground up, by Papua New Guineans, on their own terms.
“They gave us the flag. Let our generation give the nation strong books to stand on.”
Invoices, bills, payments, POS sales, payroll runs, loans and bank fees each write their own balanced journal the moment you save them. No manual postings, no month-end catch-up.
Output and input tax are recorded on every transaction as it happens, so your Form G1 is assembled from entries already posted instead of rebuilt from paper at the end of the period.
When the period closes, BukMasta fills the G1 and lodges it with the IRC on your behalf — on the due date, without you remembering. Your obligation is met, and the return keeps the reference, the date and the exact form that was filed as your proof.
Trade stores, tucker shops, contractors, churches, NGOs, cooperatives and SMEs — the tools that used to be reserved for corporates, priced for everyone.
GST and Form G1, Salary or Wages Tax with dependant declarations, fortnight pay periods and superannuation — the filings this country actually runs on.
Clean, exportable financial statements — what a bank, an investor or a tender committee needs to see before they back a Papua New Guinean business.
Because the accounting is automated, there is far less to learn than you think — the session teaches you to run your business in BukMasta, and the ledger takes care of itself behind you. Sessions begin once BukMasta is live, so you learn on the real software with your own business in front of you. Bookings are open today: reserve your place now, and when your session comes around you walk out with your subscription active, your chart of accounts set up and your first entries already posted.
Reserve a seat in your province before the sessions fill. The K 150.00 covers the training and your first two fortnights of BukMasta, so your subscription is live from the day you book. Anyone can book — no existing account needed.
At midnight on Independence Day the platform opens to the country and the training calendar begins. Your booking is already in the queue.
Bank statement import, GST (Form G1), Salary or Wages Tax and payroll — taught hands-on by people who know PNG filings. You learn the business side; the double entry is already automated.
The K 150.00 is paid in full when you book. It covers your seat at the session and your first two fortnights of BukMasta, so your subscription is already live — you start working in the software during the training and carry straight on with it afterwards, with the business you set up on the day.
Sessions are scheduled strictly on a first-come, first-served basis. Book early to secure your place in the first round after launch.