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IRD & TaxDon’t always believe what you hear
Recently, in Budget 2024, Inland Revenue (IR) was allocated $116m to tackle tax debt and compliance. The latter focus areas, for at least the 2024 – 2025 financial year, will be:
the hidden economy and organised crime;
electronic sales suppression tools;
GST integrity;
student loan overseas-based borrowers; and,
increased audit activity.
Personally, the last of these five focus areas [...]
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What’s happened to my business value in a Covid and locked down world?
This article is a written collaboration by Bruce, Joshna and Humphrey in our Valued Added Services team. For any advice on this topic or anything covered in this article, please phone 0800 339 901. Let us go back to basics. What is my value? Fundamentally the value of every asset is the present value of […]
Impertinent questions for economic leadership
The tyranny we have been subjected to as a nation has likely blinded us to the long term negative economic and health consequences. The tax base has been well and truly rooted and will take a decade to recover fully. So much so, we need to ignore that ambition of getting back to pre-Covid levels. […]
Covid-19 and managing mental health
The last six weeks have been for most of us a learning curve. Managing to work from home and trying to maintain a healthy work and life balance can be tough. The struggle to maintain a high level of output, whilst without the normal conveniences of the office environment is something I am sure we […]
The test that proved it for us
COVID-19 – do you know that we weren’t even using this word a few months ago, now we use it almost daily!! As a GS team member and part of the GS leadership team we were able to move quickly to alert level 3 and then 4 when it was first announced. This is because […]
GSTV: Covid-19 Commercial Matters and Insolvency
Richard Ashby, joined by Bruce Sheppard, interviews our guest Kalev Crossland from Shieff Angland law firm about commercial matters and insolvency during this Covid-19 situation.