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BusinessMarketing on a budget: Smart strategies for small to medium businesses
As a business owner, allocating resources effectively is crucial for growth and success. One area that often gets overlooked or underfunded is marketing. However, even modest marketing efforts can yield significant returns with the right strategies and a well-planned budget. Setting a realistic marketing budget A common rule of thumb is to allocate 2-5% of […]
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Outsourcing: Technology demolishes geographic barriers.
A recent trip to India to meet with our outsourcing team led me to reflect on my experience of outsourcing, the benefits it has delivered to the firm and how it has become an essential part of our company. Outsourcing has become a common practice for businesses across a range of industries and services and […]
Richard’s Tax Updates: June
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 […]
Elephant Sanctuary a surreal experience
As part of a month-long family holiday in South Africa, Michael Vukcevic shares insights ‘out of Africa’. Quite an adventure so far. After fun and adventure in Sun City, we travelled south to Cape Town. Whilst there we experienced the worst storm to hit Cape Town in the last 30 years. Frankly, it was no […]
2017 China Insights
My annual visit to China is a perfect chance to learn, enjoy and share – it is a pleasure to share some of insights with everyone. Demolishing non-compliant buildings From big cities such as Shanghai with more than 20 million people, to little villages like my grandma’s home village Caohu with only hundreds of residents, […]
New Foreign Trust Disclosure Regime
New Foreign Trust Disclosure Regime – Are You Ready? The passing of the Taxation (Business Tax, Exchange of Information, and Remedial Matters) Act 2017 in February 2017, saw the introduction of new disclosure rules for foreign trusts. A reaction to the so-called Panama papers published in early 2016, which suggested NZ might be considered a […]
