News & Resources
Hit by the weather? Get some tax relief.
Feeling overwhelmed about tax payments? Here are three ways Inland Revenue can help ease the pain.
Beef & Lamb New Zealand’s Innovation Farm Programme
Want to take your beef or lamb farm to the next level? Beef+Lamb New Zealand’s Innovation Farm Programme helps farmers identify tools and practices to unlock financial improvements.
Five tech tools to digitise your farm
Apps and digital tools aren’t just for desk workers. There are plenty out there to help streamline your farming processes, saving you time and money.
Get paid faster with eInvoicing
If you’re tired of chasing invoices and late payments, eInvoicing could make your life easier and save you money.
Keeping costs under control - increasing efficiency & productivity
Optimise employee scheduling through technology to reduce administration time. This includes clock in/out, changing shifts, filling in roster gaps, employee changes through sick and annual leave etc etc with a laser sharp focus on optimizing labour (not too many or too few).
Careful Christmas Planning
We've put together some tips for the rush over the next few weeks, including the answers to some tricky tax questions, and Christmas marketing tips.
Four tips to avoiding a personal grievance claim in your business
Personal grievance claims cost Kiwi businesses on average up to $20,000 per claim, plus the costs to defend yourself or your business, which can be substantial.
Running a Family Business
There are so many upsides to running a family business: working together as a close-knit unit and sharing the good times together. However, being in charge of one can be complicated as you juggle company interests with those of your loved ones.
Supporting Bald Angels
Bald Angels are planning their Christmas Kai boxes and donations! This year, they are planning to distribute 400 significant Kai Boxes and over 1600 Christmas gifts.
A productive office space.
Screens have become so omnipresent in our lives that internet addiction is recognised by the World Health Organisation as a mental health condition.
Residential investment property: what you can claim for.
Wondering if it’s worth claiming for operating expenses like vehicle costs when you travel to your rental property?
Marketing Your Business
Now is the time to plan your marketing for the next few months. This is especially key if you are a business operator specialising in tourism or retail who is looking to reclaim the tourism market that will be in full swing this summer.
Streamlining your tourism business
Technology offers great opportunities for streamlining many aspects of your business including payroll, online booking and reservation management, capacity and scheduling systems, tracking product profitability, asset maintenance and digital marketing.
How to run a profitable tourism business
The tourism, hospitality and leisure industry is very seasonal, particularly in Northland which does not experience a ‘true’ winter. It is essential to understand those seasonality trends.
Goods and Services Tax for Not-for-Profits
Given the nature of the work that NFPs typically do, income (such as fundraising income, grants and donations) is put into categories (liable, not liable, exempt) with special GST rules applied to each category.
Fringe Benefit Tax Guide for Not-for-Profits
Annika Dickey, NFP Advisor, says there are a number of specific regulations around tax exemptions and reporting for NFP organisations and because each NFP is unique, it can be difficult for those managing the finances to decipher what tax they have to pay. Fringe Benefit Tax (FBT) in particular is challenging. That’s when talking to an expert can save time, money and stress.