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Peter Forrest, Former WK Director, Receives CA ANZ Fellowship

Posted in News

Former WK Director, Peter Forrest, has recently been acknowledged with the Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (CA ANZ) Fellowship – a prestigious international accounting award which recognises services to both the profession and local community.  “CA ANZ…

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Update on Covid support

Posted in Covid-19

New round of Wage Subsidy announced The Government has announced that Wage Subsidy is making a return for Round 4. This was signaled when the recent increase to the alert levels first occurred in the weekend. Applications will be able…

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Resurgence Support Payments

Posted in Covid-19

After the recent Auckland Community cases, the Government introduced a new mechanism to support businesses. The new scheme known as Resurgence Support Payments (“RSP”) is activated by a decision of Cabinet. Generally, this will be anytime Level 2 or higher…

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2020 Tax update for Property Investors

Posted in Accounting & Advisory

While 2020 has been eventful, to say the least, it has been a relatively quiet year on the tax policy front. Here is our brief summary of relevant tax matters from the 2020 year (so far).  RECENT TAX CHANGES  Depreciation…

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Sheep & Beef Farmer of the Year 2019 winners field day

Posted in Accounting & Advisory

WK Advisors and Accountants are proud sponsors of the Westpac & Bayleys Marlborough Sheep & Beef Farmer of the Year and on Friday 16th October, our senior WK advisors Craig Robinson and Derek West both attended…

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Zerostone pup Luka

ZeroStone Detector Dog – The Next Chapter

Posted in Community

WK Blenheim enjoyed a visit from our clients Mike Lawson and Matt MacDougall from ZeroStone, they brought with them, Luka a 4-month-old German Shepherd pup who joined the team as an eight-week-old puppy. Luka will pair with their first dog Stone,…

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Stone from ZeroStone Investigations returns to WK

Posted in Community

Back in September 2019 we featured Stone, the new drug sniffing dog for WK client…

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Corona Virus and New Zealand Businesses

Coronavirus update for New Zealand Businesses

Posted in Accounting & Advisory

As Coronavirus (COVID-19) continues to spread and disrupt business operations around the world, we are encouraging our clients to carefully review the strategies, policies, and procedures of their business to protect employees, customers and operations.

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IRD Enforcing Brightline Test

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IRD have started sending out letters to persons who have sold land within 2 years of purchase, implying that unless the property was used as the taxpayers main home, any profit may be taxable and that the tax return should have been filed by 7 July.

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WK Expands into Christchurch

Posted in Business

WK has set up office in Christchurch, expanding the reach of it’s innovative accounting and business advisory services.

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