New Product Lines

It is important to regularly ask whether you are providing the products that your customers want and whether there are any new products that you could provide to ensure you are evolving with changing times as you look for the next income stream. There are plenty of...

Changes in Marginal Tax Thresholds

For the first time since 2010, personal tax rate thresholds will change from 31 July 2024. The change was announced as part of the 2024 budget. When personal tax thresholds are not regularly adjusted to take into account inflation or wage growth, individuals end up...

Donating Trade Stock

What was a temporary tax concession, relating to donated trading stock, has now become a permanent one. Prior to March 2020, in most cases, if a business donated trading stock it resulted in deemed income equivalent to its market value. This resulted in a business...

Non-BAU Transactions

BAU is a phrase that is used to describe “business as usual”. It is a good barometer of whether anything strange or unusual has occurred or whether things have been BAU. Invariably, non BAU transactions will occur: an insurance payout, a large asset purchase, a fine...

Inland Revenue Activity

After a relatively quiet few years through the Covid pandemic, Inland Revenue’s (IR) audit activity has slowly started to increase over the past few years. In 2021, IR’s campaign had a focus on the real estate sector, where the concern was around real estate agents...