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Don’t get caught! As each month passes, the online world seems to get evermore sophisticated.  And by sophisticated, we mean complicated. While ‘online’ has become an integral part of how we live and how business is conducted, nefarious use of this space has more than kept pace...

NZ’s minimum wage increases again on the 1st of April 2024.  This means if members of your team are paid the minimum, they are about to get a pay rise.  The new minimum wage is going to $23.15 per hour. If you’ve got minimum wage employees,...

Ahhh, summer.  A great time to relax, unwind and reflect.  And it’s that last one – reflecting – that can be so important to how we fare in the future.  Many of us think about what this year will bring – how it could be...

As each year seems to whizz by faster than the last, just like that, we find ourselves in December again. And what a year it’s been.  Only a few weeks to go until the great New Zealand shutdown, where the cities empty out and the beaches...

What a time to be alive! Technology has got to the point where your fridge can order your groceries for you.  I can’t decide if I love it or hate it…  Irrespective of my feelings, all this technology means that we are near constantly ‘connected’.  While...

Who’d be an economist? Are we about to boom, or straight to bust?  Are house prices starting to tick up again, or about to plummet?  Is NZ in recession, or have we avoided it?  Despite there being an entire industry dedicated to ‘reading the tea leaves’,...

It’s official, increasing interest rates are starting to ‘hurt’.  While it seems a little perverse that the Reserve Bank’s solution to prices rising too quickly is to raise the price of something, it does appear to be having the intended effect with inflation beginning to...

It is often the case that our greatest strength can also be our greatest weakness.  This is true in our personal lives as well as business.  One of the great things about small businesses is the number-8 wire mentality of just getting the job done. ...

It’s finally here! It’s official.  June saw the feared ‘R’ word go from a prediction to reality, NZ is officially in recession.  Which is hardly surprising considering it has been forecast for what feels like an eternity. As a brief recap, this is how we find ourselves...

The tax man is coming After a few quiet years of cutting a lot of slack during Covid, IRD have now found another gear. They are ramping up both on the ‘recover’ side by chasing outstanding tax debt, and on the ‘compliance’ side by taking a more...