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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 […]

I am often asked “What’s the multiple for my business?”, “What’s the valuation formula?” or “Do I multiply my profit by three?” Unfortunately, business valuation is not this simple. Business value does not stand independent of the market it operates in, nor is the value just based on the profits generated by a business. I […]

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 […]

There’s an email scam we’d like to warn everyone about – it looks like it’s from the IRD, but please don’t click the link. It’s a common method called ‘phishing’ used by fraudsters to collect someone’s personal information. The IRD investigate and taken action on reports of phishing. Click here to read more.

My daughter’s school newsletter had an ad for ‘learn to skate’ classes so we turned up, hired some skates and started working our way through their badges at weekly sessions. We watched a demonstration of some young girls doing a routine to music from Pirates of the Caribbean and we were hooked. We both joined […]