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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...

They are out to get you It’s no secret that online crime is increasing.  In recent years, we have all become more wary of unexpected emails from Nigerian princes or calls from Microsoft.  But despite this, cyber-crime is on the up-and-up, with cyber criminals being vastly...

A survey out of the US of A of over 4,000 self-employed and small business owners revealed something completely, well, expected.  We work hard.  Some of the findings included: 91% work weekends, 69% answer calls and emails ‘outside of work hours’ and 16% haven’t had...

Where are you going? Planning Ahead    I    Unexpected tax windfalls    I    Credit Cards   Where are you going? If you were going to go on holiday, would you start by simply heading to the airport and jumping on a plane, or would you begin...

Anyone who claims to know what the economy is up to is most probably full of it.  There are so many factors at play.  If we just look at the month of March, we have continued to see the fall-out from the Australian Royal Commission...

Does having lots of money bring happiness? No.  At least in general terms, that’s not the case.  Don’t get me wrong, I would sooner be loaded and miserable than broke and miserable, but proportionally, there are just as many wealthy people who are unhappy.  Money, by...