[ { "post_id": "52", "post_category_id": "1", "post_title": "Election 2020 and what it means for New Zealand taxpayers", "post_content_short": "Politicians make many promises in the lead up to an election and taxes are always front-and-centre. That's because tax revenue is\r\nwhat makes the promises possible. The COVID-19 pandemic has created a situation where the government needs to spend a lot of money to\r\nsupport our health system and to aid our financial recovery.
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\r\nSteve Dawson<\/a> has taken a look at the\r\nparty tax policies for those at the table, what is likely to happen with Labour in power, and what this means for you.", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.connacc.nz\/media\/website_posts\/52\/Thumbnail-Election-2020-and-what-it-means-for-taxpayers.png", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.connacc.nz\/the-skinny\/election-2020-and-what-it-means-for-new-zealand-taxpayeres\/", "post_date": "2020-10-28 03:04:00" }, { "post_id": "43", "post_category_id": "1", "post_title": "Help Available to NZ Business - COVID-19", "post_content_short": "In response to COVID-19 the Government is acting to support the economy, with a particular focus on small businesses, supporting\r\nemployees, and taxes. The package includes wage subsidy schemes, leave and self-isolation support and business cash flow and tax measures.\r\nMore info within...", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.connacc.nz\/media\/website_posts\/43\/covid19-help-available-to-nz-businesses-copy.jpg", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.connacc.nz\/the-skinny\/help-available-to-nz-business-covid-19\/", "post_date": "2020-03-23 20:12:00" }, { "post_id": "7", "post_category_id": "9", "post_title": "Capital Gains tax is off the table", "post_content_short": "Recently you may have seen in the news the recommendations made to the Government. They have finally taken a look […]", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.connacc.nz\/media\/website_posts\/7\/nate-watson-523415-unsplash.jpg", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.connacc.nz\/the-skinny\/tax\/capital-gains-tax-is-off-the-table\/", "post_date": "2019-04-23 00:00:00" }, { "post_id": "8", "post_category_id": "9", "post_title": "Automatic tax refunds for wage and salary earners – 2020 financial year", "post_content_short": "There are going to be a few changes for this up and coming financial year (2020). From the 1st of […]", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.connacc.nz\/media\/website_posts\/8\/audit-3929140_640.jpg", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.connacc.nz\/the-skinny\/tax\/automatic-tax-refunds-for-wage-and-salary-earners-2020-financial-year\/", "post_date": "2019-04-10 00:00:00" }, { "post_id": "10", "post_category_id": "2", "post_title": "Changes in Payroll filing requirements", "post_content_short": "If you’re calculating pays and filing PAYE manually, your admin workload is about to double. Here’s how you can get […]", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.connacc.nz\/media\/website_posts\/10\/PAyday-Filing-IRD-800x445.jpg", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.connacc.nz\/the-skinny\/best-practice\/changes-in-payroll-filing-requirements\/", "post_date": "2019-03-13 00:00:00" }, { "post_id": "12", "post_category_id": "6", "post_title": "Residential Rental Losses – A Change is Coming", "post_content_short": "Earlier this year, IRD released a paper on the proposed ring-fencing of rental losses, expected to come into effect for […]", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.connacc.nz\/media\/website_posts\/12\/wellington-1584264_640.jpg", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.connacc.nz\/the-skinny\/personal-wealth\/residential-rental-losses-a-change-is-coming\/", "post_date": "2018-11-14 00:00:00" }, { "post_id": "13", "post_category_id": "9", "post_title": "AIM – The New Way To Pay Tax", "post_content_short": "Intended to help ease cashflow for small business, there’s a new way to calculate how much tax to pay from […]", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.connacc.nz\/media\/website_posts\/13\/aim-tax-planning.jpeg", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.connacc.nz\/the-skinny\/tax\/aim-the-new-way-to-pay-tax\/", "post_date": "2018-02-13 00:00:00" }, { "post_id": "14", "post_category_id": "9", "post_title": "Year End Tax Planning Checklist", "post_content_short": "The end of the financial year is fast approaching.  This is a good time to consider your year-end accounting and […]\n", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.connacc.nz\/media\/website_posts\/14\/The-Taxman-Cometh.jpg", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.connacc.nz\/the-skinny\/tax\/year-end-tax-planning-checklist\/", "post_date": "2017-03-03 00:00:00" }, { "post_id": "15", "post_category_id": "9", "post_title": "Making Tax Simple - Changes for 2017", "post_content_short": "In last year’s budget there were a number of measures designed to simplify the tax processes.  These have now been […]\n", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.connacc.nz\/media\/website_posts\/15\/Making-Tax-Simple.jpg", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.connacc.nz\/the-skinny\/tax\/making-tax-simple-changes-for-2017\/", "post_date": "2017-02-06 00:00:00" }, { "post_id": "17", "post_category_id": "2", "post_title": "The Taxman Cometh", "post_content_short": "We have been noticing increased IRD investigation and review activity over the past year.  This is not unexpected because the […]\n", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.connacc.nz\/media\/website_posts\/17\/taxman-cometh.jpeg", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.connacc.nz\/the-skinny\/best-practice\/the-taxman-cometh\/", "post_date": "2015-02-25 00:00:00" }, { "post_id": "23", "post_category_id": "2", "post_title": "How to pay more tax: Be Sloppy.", "post_content_short": "Every single person that I come across wants to pay less tax.  Nothing wrong with that.  It’s always been my […]\n", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.connacc.nz\/media\/website_posts\/23\/closed-wallet.jpeg", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.connacc.nz\/the-skinny\/best-practice\/how-to-pay-more-tax-be-sloppy\/", "post_date": "2013-07-18 00:00:00" }, { "post_id": "24", "post_category_id": "2", "post_title": "Signing up for MyIR- all you need to know", "post_content_short": "IRD has recently made improvements to their systems to allow online filing of personalised returns – both for individuals and […]\n", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.connacc.nz\/media\/website_posts\/24\/IRD.png", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.connacc.nz\/the-skinny\/best-practice\/signing-up-for-myir-all-you-need-to-know\/", "post_date": "2012-10-09 00:00:00" }, { "post_id": "29", "post_category_id": "7", "post_title": "Penny & Hooper - IRD speaks. You’d better listen.", "post_content_short": "IRD has issued their views on what level of profits in a service business should be allocated and taxed in […]\n", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.connacc.nz\/media\/website_posts\/29\/club-2492011_640.jpg", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.connacc.nz\/the-skinny\/profitability\/penny-hooper-ird-speaks-youd-better-listen\/", "post_date": "2011-09-01 00:00:00" }, { "post_id": "30", "post_category_id": "7", "post_title": "Penny & Hooper v IRD - The Final Result", "post_content_short": "I have just received a copy of the Supreme Court judgement on the Penny & Hooper case.   This case is […]\n", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.connacc.nz\/media\/website_posts\/30\/law-1991004_640.jpg", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.connacc.nz\/the-skinny\/profitability\/penny-hooper-v-ird-the-final-result\/", "post_date": "2011-08-23 00:00:00" }, { "post_id": "31", "post_category_id": "9", "post_title": "Capital Gains Tax - Should You Be Worried?", "post_content_short": "Yesterday the Labour party announced their tax policy and a Capital Gains Tax (CGT) is a principal component of that […]\n", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.connacc.nz\/media\/website_posts\/31\/architecture-1836070_640.jpg", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.connacc.nz\/the-skinny\/tax\/capital-gains-tax-should-you-be-worried\/", "post_date": "2011-07-14 00:00:00" }, { "post_id": "33", "post_category_id": "9", "post_title": "How Rugby Can Improve Your Business", "post_content_short": "I was recently reading an article written by Nick Farr-Jones and realised that much of what he was saying about […]\n", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.connacc.nz\/media\/website_posts\/33\/rugby.jpg", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.connacc.nz\/the-skinny\/tax\/how-rugby-can-improve-your-business\/", "post_date": "2011-04-11 00:00:00" }, { "post_id": "34", "post_category_id": "9", "post_title": "What’s the One Overt Message?", "post_content_short": "Pathetic as it may seem, we’ve never made a pull-up banner for the business.   The main problem has always […]\n", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.connacc.nz\/media\/website_posts\/34\/jason-leung-726951-unsplash.jpg", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.connacc.nz\/the-skinny\/tax\/whats-the-one-overt-message\/", "post_date": "2011-03-11 00:00:00" }, { "post_id": "35", "post_category_id": "9", "post_title": "Xero. The Future.", "post_content_short": "It’s hard to believe that the web has been around for 20 years, but it’s only in recent years that […]\n", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.connacc.nz\/media\/website_posts\/35\/XeroAccountingFeat.jpg", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.connacc.nz\/the-skinny\/tax\/xero-the-future\/", "post_date": "2011-02-05 00:00:00" }, { "post_id": "36", "post_category_id": "9", "post_title": "The Idiot’s Guide to the Reserve Bank’s View for 2011 & Onwards", "post_content_short": "You would have seen that the official cash rate (OCR) has remained unchanged at 3%, so it good to know […]\n", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.connacc.nz\/media\/website_posts\/36\/business-money-pink-coins.jpg", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.connacc.nz\/the-skinny\/tax\/the-idiots-guide-to-the-reserve-banks-view-for-2011-onwards\/", "post_date": "2010-12-09 00:00:00" }, { "post_id": "37", "post_category_id": "9", "post_title": "What Creates Business Value", "post_content_short": "I was thinking the other day about the 3 key financial results areas for all businesses – profit, cash and […]\n", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.connacc.nz\/media\/website_posts\/37\/pexels-photo-872957.jpeg", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.connacc.nz\/the-skinny\/tax\/what-creates-business-value\/", "post_date": "2010-11-30 00:00:00" }, { "post_id": "38", "post_category_id": "9", "post_title": "Don’t Let the Buzzards Do you Over", "post_content_short": "I’ve had a few discussions in recent days with business owners concerned about their personal liability arising from work that […]\n", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.connacc.nz\/media\/website_posts\/38\/umbrella-1588167_640.jpg", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.connacc.nz\/the-skinny\/tax\/dont-let-the-buzzards-do-you-over\/", "post_date": "2010-11-22 00:00:00" }, { "post_id": "39", "post_category_id": "9", "post_title": "Death of the LAQC?", "post_content_short": "The draft legislation for the changes to the Qualifying company regime came out on 15 October, and the government is […]", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.connacc.nz\/media\/website_posts\/39\/law.jpeg", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.connacc.nz\/the-skinny\/tax\/death-of-the-laqc\/", "post_date": "2010-11-10 00:00:00" } ]