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 […]

Finance Monthly interviews Richard Ashby for their Special Feature Report – a tax partner at Gilligan Sheppard, Richard’s is tax specialist with a large proportion of his work focusing on advising on GST-related matters, he introduces the regime and the key complexities that surround it. What are the requirements for businesses in New Zealand to […]

Richard featured in The Finance Monthly Magazine article as a tax expert on land tax… here’s the article… Richard Ashby is a tax partner at Gilligan Sheppard Limited, who’s been dealing with New Zealand taxation for over 29 years. Here he talks to Finance Monthly about the land tax and the new ‘bright-line’ rules, as […]

The Government’s recently announced tax simplification measures contain some good news for small to medium sized businesses and in our view will certainly assist to reduce the cost of compliance for many of you. One of the biggest impacts of the proposed changes will be with respect to use of money interest exposures, which has […]

The beginning of the month of May not only reinforced the shocked realisation of how quickly yet another year was passing, but also saw the introduction of the first significant tax Bill for 2016. Similar to the recently announced tax simplification proposals by the Government, the Bill has a number of welcomed changes to present […]

The release of the Supreme Court’s (“the Court”) ruling in the case of Clayton v Clayton (SC 23 2015) on 23rd March 2016 certainly caused a stir around the desks of numerous accounting and legal professionals throughout New Zealand, as word spread that the highest court in the land had determined that a power of […]

In November we held a seminar “How do the rich get richer?” When it comes to getting rich, the rich get richer because they have knowledge about money. They understand how money works. They understand finance. They understand tax laws. They understand what drives profitability. When the rich get richer, it is a symptom of their […]

Last month we wrote an article commenting on the new “Bright-line Test” for residential land, which was to apply from 1st October 2015, although the Bill containing the legislation had only just passed through its first reading in Parliament on 9th September 2015. Since that article was written, the Bill has now progressed through its […]

Make Up Your Own Mind The 2015 Budget saw the introduction of proposals to “improve compliance in the property investment sector.” Under the new rules, from 1st October 2015, transferors and transferees of land will be required to provide certain tax information at the time of the land transfer, with registration of the transfer not […]

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 […]