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If you can’t back it up, don’t say it
Watch this video from the Commerce Commission regarding False, Misleading and Unsubstaniated representations. Be careful with what you are claiming. You must be able to back up your claims of the products you are selling. Watch here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9a2HtaeNFE#action=share Source: www.comcom.govt.nz ...
Compliance strengthened for property speculation
Inland Revenue is to gain greater oversight of land transfer information to ensure those buying and selling properties are complying with tax rules on property speculation. Cabinet has agreed to implement recommendation 99 of the Tax Working Group’s (TWG) final report. It will require most people who buy and sell properties to supply their IRD number on land transfer documentation. Revenue Minister ...
Tax Talk Newsletter Winter 2019
Help Your Accountant, and Yourself - Here are some of the problems we strike when preparing your annual accounts and what you can do to help us: Avoid supplying too much information – our questionnaire will list what we need. Too much information means we have to wade through it, in case there is something you intend us to see. Respond to our ...
What's the future for cash in New Zealand?
If cash becomes less accepted and available as a means of payment, then the Reserve Bank says that New Zealanders who are already left out of the banking or digital worlds may be severely disadvantaged. That prospect is one of five key issues in a paper on the Future of Cash Use published by the Bank on its website today. “We see ...
New ACC levies set
The ACC levies have been set by regulation for the 2019-20 and 2020-21 tax years. For both tax years the earners’ levy remains the same at $1.39 (GST-incl) per $100 liable earnings. The minimum liable earnings for self-employed workers increases from $32,760 to $34,320. The maximum liable earnings will increase for: self-employed people from $124,053 to $128,470 in the 2019-20 tax year, and ...