This week in tax: Inland Revenue’s three new rulings on taxing crypto-assets paid as salary and wages/bonuses New draft determination on using smartphone for business Is Inland Revenue audit activity on the decline?   Podcast Transcript This week, Inland Revenue with a world first. How much of that telecommunications tool expenditure is deductible and how […]

This week in tax The impact of Brexit and the financial arrangements regime The Government’s tax policy work programme for the next 18 months 15 years ago… Podcast transcript

Three stories from this week What tax do high wealth individuals pay? Can an exemption really increase tax revenue? Provisional tax a lesson from my time on the Small Business Council Podcast Transcript

This week in tax Inland Revenue explains the work related vehicle exemption Is insulation deductible? Should it be? Just how good is Inland Revenue’s $1.5 billion business transformation? Transcript

This week Terry discusses three news stories Should we follow the UK’s lead and change the way we calculate FBT on cars? Is a tax war about to break out over France’s digital services tax Bitcoin – Inland Revenue hasn’t forgotten about it

The role of a finance minister is hugely important as they together with their Treasury department set the direction for an economy. Tax is a major part of any finance minister’s responsibilities, but for some finance ministers tax reforms are the key part of their legacy. Here are five finance ministers with a huge tax legacy. Jean-Baptiste […]

I have just uploaded my slides presented to the Trusts Special Interest Group about the court case between Blackburn Trustees and Crowe Horwath International in the High Court and the lessons we can draw from this judgement about Capital Gains Tax and the Brightline Test. Blackburn Trustees and the Brightline Test #tax from Baucher Consulting Limited

This week in tax we cover 3 news stories The OCR goes down but Inland Revenue rates are up Costs of compliance for small businesses Productivity Commission on Local Government Finance.

It’s well documented that high-income earners pay substantial amounts of income tax. According to Treasury estimates, 42% of the projected income tax payable for the year ended 31st March 2020 will be paid by those with annual income of over $100,000. That group is about 341,000 taxpayers or roughly 9% of all taxpayers. But how much tax […]

Top news stories this week New Zealand’s Government proposes a digital services tax 450,000 taxpayers receive a surprise – they had not applied the correct prescribed investor rate to their PIE accounts Inland Revenue is feeling the strain Read the Full Transcript