Tax compliance

Tax compliance

From detailed return preparation to high-level review and risk management, our experts tailor ongoing tax compliance support to suit your needs and budget.

Our services include:

  • Tax return compliance, full preparation or review of client-prepared tax return before submitting to New Zealand's Inland Revenue (IRD).
  • Advice on provisional tax and terminal tax payments.
  • Pro-active notifications of tax due dates and assistance with tax calculations to ensure the correct amount is paid and no more.
  • Tax accounting support: Liaise with auditors, ensure correct calculations and disclosure of relevant tax balances.
  • Tax risk governance: Review, prepare or assist with tax risk governance policy or documentation, providing evidence of appropriate procedures for Inland Revenue in the event of an audit or investigation.
  • GST: Identify GST exposure and mitigate risks, comply with statutory requirements, advise the right system to manage GST for your business, and assist with complex GST issues, including change of use adjustments and appointment calculations.
  • Tax Review: External review of tax processes and systems, identifying issues and managing risk, while maximising tax efficiencies.
  • Health checks: Income Tax, GST, FBT, PAYE and international reporting requirements to ensure you meet tax obligations, and assistance with correcting any historic errors.
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21 Mar 2024

What is provisional tax? It’s a tax that, strangely, makes our lives easier!

The word “tax” typically isn’t music to anyone’s ears, but there is a tax that makes our lives easier. We’re talking about provisional tax, which lets us spread our income tax payments across the financial year, rather than make one crippling payment at the end.

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20 Mar 2024

Bright-line tax and rental interest deductibility – what you need to know

Late last week, the government announced changes to the tax Bill now working its way through Parliament. This bill is bringing in the new trust tax rate of 39% with effect from 1 April 2024.

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07 Mar 2024

Tax Talk: App tax to stay – here’s how the new regulations will apply

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Ask an expert: What are employers’ obligations around directors’ fees?

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Pre-Election Survey paints a broad picture of business sentiment

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Savings of $4m-plus: Clients find tax pooling is well worth the plunge

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Tax Talk: Inland Revenue updates a range of 2023 income year tax rates

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Government's game development boost fails to move the joystick

Two months ago, the New Zealand government announced in its 2023 budget that it would assist video game developers and the wider digital industry.

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Gifting and taxes feel like a minefield, but are they?

Ask an expert: Christchurch directors Dorian Crighton and Spencer Smith package up the answers to your gifting questions…

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18 May 2023

2023 Budget: Trustee tax rate will increase to 39%

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Kiwis short-changed by wasteful tax spend

Normally, tax policy isn’t a topic the average Kiwi talks about. But over the past month it appears that everyday New Zealanders have been vigorously debating our tax settings.

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Yes, you can have your PIE and eat it too

Do you have spare cash that you’re contemplating locking into a term investment to generate some interest income?  You should consider the benefits of a PIE Fund, says Baker Tilly Staples Rodway Auckland Business Advisory Services senior manager Sonia Gaskin.

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