Michael Gerber wrote a well-known book “The E Myth Revisited” which he subtitled “Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About it”. The E in the title stands for "entrepreneur" which is what many Kiwis are or want to be. He identified the fundamental flaw for most new small …
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Mileage rate change
Each year IRD assesses the claimable mileage rate and for the second year in a row the rate has gone down. This is now 72 cents for the 2016 tax year, down from 74 cents for 2015 and 77 cents in 2014. The rate applies to both diesel and petrol vehicles but not to motorcycles as these are not …
To “Fail to Plan” is to “Plan to Fail”
That is so true and even more so in 2016. The world has changed dramatically in the last 10 years with the digital revolution changing the way we live our lives. Everything around us is changing whether we like it or not. Auckland’s current housing and homelessness crisis is a classic example of …
Motor Vehicle Levies
As a motor vehicle owner, in most cases you can enjoy again this year a reduction to your licensing fee. This kicked in on 1 July due to the ACC levy portion of the “rego” vehicle licensing fee going down because the levies collected are considered sufficient to cover the estimated claims that …
New rules for cancelled shifts in the workplace
One of the important recent changes to employment law relates to compensation for staff whose shifts get cancelled without reasonable notice. Details of how much notice an employer will give to the employee in these circumstances and the compensation rate for lack of reasonable notice must be …