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Tax, Accounting and Property Updates

Welcome to our blog! If you’re looking for some practical advice to help you with tax, accounting and property matters, you’ll find it here. This page hosts a range of articles from Connie and other guest experts. These blogs and articles are aimed at giving you practical advice and helping you and your business succeed. We hope you enjoy reading our blog.

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Power of Voluntary Disclosure

Budget 2025 provides new additional permanent funding of $35 million per year for Inland Revenue to invest more in tax…

July 19, 2025

Becoming a non-NZ tax resident – Podcast

Recently, our Director, Connie Lui, did a recent podcast with Shiraz Waheed, a tax accountant based in Germany/UAE, re becoming…

November 26, 2023

Tax changes proposed for cross border workers

Cross-border workers and businesses in NZ often find it challenging to navigate the NZ tax rules. If there are errors…

September 9, 2022

More financial support for businesses most affected by Omicron

The government is extending three forms of financial support to businesses that have been heavily affected by recent Omicron outbreak.…

February 24, 2022

Strategies to combat interest limitation – New Builds, Residential Development & Commercial Investment

Webinar Recordings for “Strategies to combat interest limitation – New Builds, Residential Developments & Commercial Investments”

We had an awesome turnout in our latest webinars, Strategies to combat interest limitation - New Builds, Development & Commercial.…

October 27, 2021

Strategies to combat interest limitation – New Builds, Residential Developments & Commercial Investments

With the new interest limitation rule, many residential property investors may not be able to deduct interest expense in the…

September 2, 2021

Significant decrease in revenue – Eligible for COVID business support and IRD interest and penalties relief?

Now, we are almost 2 weeks in since level 4 lockdown on 17 August 2021, more businesses (in particular commercial…

August 27, 2021

Automatic Exchange of Information & CRS – More transparency of overseas income and investment to IRD

New Zealand (NZ) has had an automatic exchange of information (AEOI) agreement with several countries for many years. In the…

June 30, 2021

Design of the new interest limitation rule and changes to the bright-line rules

On 10 June 2021, the Labour Government released a discussion document to seek public consultation over the next five-week regarding…

June 11, 2021

Tax surprises for returning Kiwis?

Over 50,000 Kiwis expats have returned home since the beginning of the outbreak. This is estimated to increase to between…

May 31, 2021

Are you ready for residential property tax changes again?

With significant increase in house prices over the last year, Government has announced a number of changes to combat this.…

April 1, 2021

A beginner’s guide to paying less tax (article published by Stuff – Interview with Connie Lui)

Happy new year everyone! Apologies for being radio silence as have been busy in our peak income tax return season!…

March 1, 2021