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It’s still only been a few short weeks since the Nation moved to level 1.  And while in many respects, much of life is returning to some sense of normality, there are lasting effects that will be with us for some time.  Not least of...

No two ways about it, NZ has had a bit of a tough time going through the various alert levels.  Our collective productivity has taken a bit of a hammering.  There has been a lot more optimism since the move to level 2, and there...

The Small Business Cashflow Loan Scheme looks to have been reasonably successful – at the end of last week, it was approaching $1 billion in loans advanced.  The feedback that we have heard has been largely positive with most receiving the loans quickly. This is a...

Welcome to day number 1 of the lockdown.  As we get used to this new, temporary way of life, here is some important stuff for businesses: If you haven’t done so already… If you qualify and haven’t yet applied for the wage subsidy or if you’re not...

Yes, Covid-19 is here, and it is creating some fundamental changes in how our country operates incredibly quickly.  One of the benefits of living on small islands in the south pacific is that we are relatively isolated.  As of writing this there are only 20...

For our tax clients, you might have heard us grumble about under-staffing at IRD and how that slows down the work we do for you.  It transpires that 700,000 calls didn’t even make it into the queue to talk to someone (about 40% of the...

If you have paid any attention to the media over the last couple of weeks, it would have been impossible to miss the outbreak of the Coronavirus, first in China and at the time of writing this, 14 other countries around the world.  While truly...

If you’re in business (or, for that matter, working pretty much anywhere), sooner or later you will need to sell something: a service, product, idea or yourself.  While this is fundamentally one of the most important aspects of business and of people’s careers, it is...

We have written about this on previous occasions, but we are seeing a big increase in the instance that they occur: online scams.  There is a reason that they are on the rise – they are incredibly profitable for the perpetrators.  That ‘profit’ is money...

Who should pay? It won’t be long, and another election will be on the horizon.  Indeed, there has already been policy signalling by some political parties.  A key election issue here (and probably also in the US of A) looks very likely to be taxes.  Each...