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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 […]

Part of my responsibility at Gilligan Sheppard is to recruit, hire and train new administration team members. The recruitment process is something I find relatively easy, especially by being located in Auckland city. Once I’ve made the decision to hire the person I believe is right, I then take on the responsibility of being accountable […]

For those of you who go to early morning network meeting’s (often an excuse for someone else to cook you breakfast), you may have experienced the dreaded 60 seconds – stand up and talk to the group about yourself, what you do and who would be your ideal client, for one minute. At BNI (which […]

The other day I received an email in my personal account from a client.  My first thought was why? Why was a client emailing my personal account? And then I opened it… It was an invitation to view a memorial service via online streaming.  It was a bit of a weird request and the text […]

In 2008 we moved from Pakuranga to Kohimarama. I noticed the Kohimarama Yacht club, a lonely grey wooden structure on the beach front of Tamaki Drive between St Heliers and Kohimarama. I did not expect that in the 10 years to come, we would be so involved with them. My daughter Crystal joined the club […]