James Mason from Mindshop interviews Kim Marshall from WK about her insights on cutting through with business advisory services in a regional market. Kim shares her background and the journey that led her to become an advisor.

Kim Marshall from our Christchurch team featured on the Marketing 4 Business Podcast with Scott Wilson. They discussed simplicity in business strategy, and effective coaching methods from “The Coaching Habit" and the benefits of a 90-day strategic framework.

For many years now, the New Zealand Inland Revenue has not been overly active, or at least not visible, in investigations or enforcement. There have been various reasons for this. Learn more in our blog article.

We were highly critical of the additional spending in Budget 2023 in a time of high inflation and were pessimistic of Treasury’s 2023 forecast that NZ would not enter a recession. Treasury were, of course, wrong and NZ is in recession as high interest rates continue to pile the hurt on households and businesses.

Last month, fulfilling an election promise, the Government announced a new credit called FamilyBoost for families paying for early childhood education (ECE).

On 14 March 2024, Minister for Agriculture, Todd McClay, declared a medium-scale adverse event for drought in the Marlborough, Tasman, and Nelson districts.

As we have mentioned in recent articles, there are some relatively significant tax changes taking effect on 1 April 2024, even though the draft legislation has not been released. Well, finally, the detail behind the upcoming changes was released yesterday when Amendment Paper 20 was finally publicly released. Learn more in our blog article.

The Finance and Expenditure Select Committee finally reported back on the Taxation (Annual Rates for 2023-24. Multinational Tax, and Remedial Matters) Bill ahead of its final reading in Parliament later this month. This Bill includes some important changes for large multi-nationals, but the main talking point in this Bill for many is the introduction of a 39% tax rate for Trusts as announced by the previous Government.

There are some important tax changes coming in from 1 April, but frustratingly, we are one month out from most of these changes applying, and the full details of these changes are not yet in the public arena. Learn more about what is known to date.

We’re excited to announce that WKIQ by WK Strawbridge Advisors & Accountants is coming to Nelson. This move reflects our commitment to empowering more New Zealand businesses with the tools and knowledge they need to thrive.

While the election result will not be officially known until 3 November, it is clear from the results that National will be in the position for form a government with ACT and, if required, NZ First. The tax policies of these parties were reasonably consistent, so we can anticipate the tax changes that are likely to occur in the coming year or so.

For the third year, a group of WK Blenheim staff made the trip out to Taimate, just north of Ward township, to assist with the planting of native trees.