Individual & Family Business

Are you a small business owner or an individual looking for trusted advice to ensure you meet your compliance obligations and benefit from tax planning opportunities? We provide specialist tax solutions and effective business strategies that will build and protect your wealth.

We can help with:

• Advice on ownership structures and governance
• Effective use of trusts, including for people moving to or leaving New Zealand
• Advice for New Zealand tax residents receiving inheritances, trust distributions or gifts from overseas
• Expatriate tax advice for individuals or employers
• Employment tax advice
• Asset protection
• Succession planning and exit strategies
• Planning for intergeneration wealth transfers

Land

While New Zealand does not have a comprehensive capital gains tax, there are rules which tax capital gains, including certain land transactions. Land tax rules can apply in a myriad of situations, including where you are associated with a land dealer, developer or builder, where you are subdividing or developing your land, where you are an investor, or as a result of a zoning change.

Our tax team has a wealth of experience advising on the land tax rules and providing recommendations to minimise any tax or GST payable. This is definitely an area where it pays to get it right upfront to avoid the risk of costly mistakes. If you are contemplating a land transaction or purchase, we advise you to get in contact as early as possible.

GST

Our tax team can assist with all areas of GST advice, including issues such as land transactions, business sales, selling goods and services to non-residents, GST on imports including customs GST and digital selling, and the GST treatment of financial services and insurances. If you are a non-resident remote service provider, or a non-resident selling low value goods to New Zealand consumers, we can assist.