Addressing the need to be considerate during this time, our guests tackle a topic that should be foremost in our thinking… Guest panelists are psychologist Evana Lithgow from ‘Working Minds’ and employment lawyer Tess von Dadelszen from ‘Langton Hudson Butcher’ facilitated by Richard Ashby…

Commercial matters & Insolvency through Covid-19 7th May 2020 Richard Ashby interviews Kalev Crossland from Shieff Angland law firm and our own Bruce Sheppard about commercial matters… For any questions you have on this subject matter, please email marketing@gilshep.co.nz. Leases, Construction & Property with Covid-19 6th May 2020 Michael Vukcevic interviews Paul Chambers from ACL […]

Our tax specialist Richard Ashby is interviewed by Michael Vukcevic. Here he provides tips around your tax – the devil is in the detail.

In case you missed it, on 15th April 2020, the Government published a further round of proposed tax changes to assist those taxpayers negatively affected by the impacts of Covid-19. The latest proposals follow-on from those which were part of the Government’s initial response to the virus outbreak, which have already been legislated for via […]

View all of our Covid-19 related articles by clicking here. Written by Peter Liao and Janki Patel, www.carsonfox.co.nz Republished with permission. With New Zealand now in lockdown, it would be prudent for businesses with a commercial lease (whether as a landlord or tenant) to carefully consider what impact this has on their rights and obligations […]

View all of our Covid-19 related articles by clicking here. Tax relief and income assistance is available to people affected by the downturn in business due to the COVID-19 (novel coronavirus). There are a range of ways to help depending on your circumstances. Please contact us if you need any assistance.

1st December 2019 was the commencement date for our Government’s latest tinkering to the GST legislation – which has commonly been referred to as the ‘Amazon Tax’. Given this nickname due to the New Zealand consumers’ prolific love of internet shopping and the ease at which goods can be acquired nowadays from non-resident suppliers, the […]

The IRD has begun issuing letters detailing both their powers to gather information from foreign jurisdictions and your responsibilities as a tax payer. This can be a very difficult letter to receive even if you as a tax payer have been compliant for your economic history. What does it mean? The Common Reporting Standards (CRS) […]

A number of you will no doubt remember, the release of the Panama papers in early 2016, which suggested that NZ might be considered a tax haven, due to its taxation rules with respect to foreign trusts. Naturally the resulting public outcry saw the appointment of an independent reviewer by the Government, whose task it […]

As soon as the Tax Working Group released their interim report in September 2018, potentially recommending the introduction of a capital gains tax, human nature dictated that there would be those amongst us that would panic, and commence down a path of looking to dispose of any asset, particularly land, that could be exposed to […]