Richard has had over 30 years’ experience with NZ taxation, and particularly enjoys dealing with land tax issues and the GST regime. He deals with clients of all types and sizes and provides tax opinions on the appropriate treatment of items of income and expenditure, assists clients with IRD risk reviews and audits and can assist […]

The next Thought Leader that we spoke to is a professional that frequently updates Finance Monthly and our readers on all things tax in New Zealand. Here Richard Ashby, who has been dealing with New Zealand taxation for over 29 years, introduces us to recent developments in the sector and shares his predictions for the […]

Richard has had over 30 years’ experience with NZ taxation, and particularly enjoys dealing with land tax issues and the GST regime. He deals with clients of all types and sizes and provides tax opinions on the appropriate treatment of items of income and expenditure, assists clients with IRD risk reviews and audits and can assist […]

As the global tax landscape continues to develop, multinational taxpayers can expect ongoing scrutiny of their cross-border transactions. It used to be said that the biggest challenges to doing business in China were language, culture, and the sheer scale of the market. Now, throw in the rapid pace of change. A raft of changes to […]

Richard has had over 25 years’ experience with NZ taxation, and particularly enjoys dealing with land tax issues and the GST regime. He deals with clients of all types and sizes and provides tax opinions on the appropriate treatment of items of income and expenditure, assists clients with IRD risk reviews and audits and can […]

Richard has had over 25 years’ experience with NZ taxation, and particularly enjoys dealing with land tax issues and the GST regime. He deals with clients of all types and sizes and provides tax opinions on the appropriate treatment of items of income and expenditure, assists clients with IRD risk reviews and audits and can […]

Richard has had over 25 years’ experience with NZ taxation, and particularly enjoys dealing with land tax issues and the GST regime. He deals with clients of all types and sizes and provides tax opinions on the appropriate treatment of items of income and expenditure, assists clients with IRD risk reviews and audits and can […]

This year’s Prime Global Asia Pacific conference was held in the historic city of Nagoya, Japan, famous for the Nagoya Castle. Prime Global is an international affiliation of independent firms similar in character to Gilligan Sheppard. Belonging to the Prime Global family essentially opens a gateway for us to be able to provide our clients […]

We all have heard the saying that diamonds are a girls’ best friend, but there is little doubt that the Inland Revenue will have any similar affections toward a Diamond after their second loss, this time in the Court of Appeal, in the tax residency case of CIR v Diamond (2015) NZCA 613 (18 December […]

Richard has had over 25 years’ experience with NZ taxation, and particularly enjoys dealing with land tax issues and the GST regime. He deals with clients of all types and sizes and provides tax opinions on the appropriate treatment of items of income and expenditure, assists clients with IRD risk reviews and audits and can […]