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To be fair, I think none of us have lived through a year such as 2024. It wasn’t like the Global Financial Crisis (GFC), a banking crisis that tipped through into asset prices, confidence and transactional business activity. It was not like 1987, when asset prices collapsed, which destroyed confidence and liquidity, causing bank defaults, […]
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Richard’s July – August 2022 tax updates
Richard has had over 30 years’ experience with New Zealand and International taxation. His team provide tax services including: Q&A service for accountants Tax opinions IRD risk reviews and audits IRD arrears International tax advice Below are articles from Richard’s weekly email ‘A Week in Review’ over the last month. You can sign up for […]
Kiwiland TV – Richard Ashby New Zealand Taxation
Kiwiland TV is a New Zealand based Online Media. They produce videos sharing NZ information and stories to both local and overseas Asian audiences. Richard has had the pleasure of being interviewed to share his career story and knowledge around New Zealand Taxation. Episode 1. If you have any enquires regarding New Zealand Taxation, please […]
Tax Pooling Discussion
Richard Ashby (Tax Specialist) and Jeromy Meerman (Relationships and Product Manager at Tax Traders) get together and answer the most common questions asked around Tax Pooling. They discuss misconceptions, the benefits of tax pooling, and how to use it. Details beginning at 5.33s: Q1. What is tax pooling? Q2. What kind of tax can I […]
Surviving, thriving, or misery?
Mid-winter… fog, rain, and cold, but Spring is on the way. Without putting too much of a finer point on it, at the beginning of the year I thought 2022 would be tougher than 2020 and 2021, and the tourism and hospitality misery would spread. Well, it sure has been. Falling asset values are hurting […]
Business in China – what’s changed?
Shanghai Direct Supply Limited is an international trading company specialising in importing clothing and accessories, home textiles, and fabrics. The company was founded in New Zealand in 1991 by Nelson Lee, originally named Moving Free Trading. In the year 2000, Nelson’s son Kevin Lee joined his father, restructured the business, and it became Shanghai Direct […]