60 day limit for tax pooling being extended
August 15, 2011
Category Archives: Business
Being critical
August 15, 2011
Reputation rules, influencing every decision we make, day in and day out. Virtually every item in our daily newspapers, nightly TV news programmes, and magazines, revolves around reputation. A well-known rugby player is charged with assault. A company director is convicted of fraud. A company goes into receivership due to mismanagement and reckless trading. Stories like these are what make up the bulk of our news bulletins…
Cash to grow
August 15, 2011
We are seeing signs of business starting to pick up. We are all ready for it to happen. For many business owners cash reserves have been used up to survive the recent years of trading – money is tight. As business picks up, cash is needed to buy product and employ extra staff to cope with the increased workload…
90 day trial – extension to all workplaces
April 8, 2011
The proposed changes are to extend the 90 day rule for new employees to all workplaces not just those with less than 20 staff. If the change becomes law the current provisions for smaller businesses are likely to apply, the 90 day trial will need to be agreed prior to the employee commencing employment with [...]
Positive customer complaints
March 24, 2011
Customer service, service with a smile, go the extra mile, exceed expectations… We have heard all the catch phrases before but what happens when our service falls down resulting in a complaint. Dealing with complaints well is paramount to a business’s reputation. Of course the ideal is to not get complaints but in the real [...]
Small Business Relief Package
March 2, 2010
Reducing the size of provisional tax repayments business taxpayers have to make for the 2008/09 and 2009/10 income years. At the present time, taxpayers have to factor in 5% growth, but that will be dropped for those years. Transitional provisional taxpayers’ rates will also reduce by 5%. Reducing the use of money interest (UOMI) rate [...]
Cheaper debt recovery and contract enforcement
October 22, 2009
From 1 November 2009, it became cheaper to recover debts and enforce claims worth less than $200,000. On 1 November 2009, the new District Court Rules came into force. These radically overhauled the way District Court cases are run. The new rules provide a range of proceedings for resolving disputes. Parties are encouraged to quickly [...]