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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 […]

After 10 weeks of balancing rehearsals, study and fundraising the big night finally arrived! The many hours of practising and training prepared me well and as expected the show went by in the blink of an eye. What I didn’t expect was to come out of it with so many new skills and enough wonderful […]

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 […]

Locky Virus is being pushed aggressively through mail and is spreading via spam email campaigns. The virus has the reputation of being biggest IT threat of 2016 so far. Its aggressive global threat through spam emails and compromised websites is leaving top security companies such as Sophos, Norton, Trend and McAfee scrambling to respond. The […]

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 […]