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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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Richard's Tax Updates: January
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 […]
Let’s Achieve Something
The feminist movement, the female era, gender diversity, gender pay equity, quotas for females on boards, women in business support groups – are all words, phrases, organisations we hear of almost daily; in the news, in articles, on social media, at our workplaces. I have been trying to formulate my thoughts on all of this […]
Business as a means to assist the individual pursuit of happiness
When you visit a place like Washington DC, where the most powerful country was birthed and read the words inscribed in the Jefferson Monument: [box] “We hold these truths to be self-evident: That all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights. Among these are life, liberty and […]
Benefiting From Others Going First
How did I come to be on an island, walking through the bush with two Aussie blokes at 5.30am? For the past few years I have been a member of an informal Trans-Tasman Best Practice Group. The formation of the group came from a shared membership of what was then Polaris – an international accounting […]
Christmas Traditions
Some people take the Grinch approach with Christmas, some at the other end of the scale, are happy to wear decorated headbands, earrings, play Mariah Carey or Michael Buble carols incessantly. There are some odd traditions; Boxing Day, mistletoe, stockings… ever thought about how they came about? Christmas Christmas, as most of us know, is […]
