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There has been a lot of criticism of the government backed loan scheme that was announced last month.  Particularly, many small and mid-sized businesses have found them difficult to access.  The government has responded by opening another avenue for businesses to borrow.  Directly off the...

This is a busy time of year for paying tax, there is provisional and terminal income tax, maybe FBT as well as the usual suspects of PAYE and GST.  All at a time when for many businesses, cash has stopped rolling in. On the first of...

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...

And just like that, another year is (nearly) over.  This is the time of year to think about some really small practical things (holiday pay for staff, shut down hours, emergency/break down contacts and what have you), it’s also a very good time to think...

As the song lyrics go; the times, they are a changing.  This includes how we pay for stuff.  If you’re still using cheques to pay your tax bill, time is not on your side.  As of 1 March 2020, IRD will no longer accept cheques...

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...