July 2021

Achieving your goals with the rocks, pebbles and sand mindset

Struggling to achieve your goals? Try the rocks, pebbles and sand concept to set your annual goals (rocks), 90-day goals (pebbles) and actions required (sand). Your goals will drive your day-to-day tasks, ensuring your goals are achieved! Check it out.

Handling staff shortages

NZ economist Tony Alexander surveyed 22,000 of his Tony’s View subscribers recently asking what issues they were facing around staffing. He collated 170 responses, some of which he described as excellent, and shared those. Check out some of the key findings here.

How to protect your business from being held to ransom

Ransomware attacks can cause huge disruption to your business, including loss of income, customer trust and resources.

Tax for ‘cashies’ in construction

Inland Revenue is currently engaging with the construction industry to ensure they’re ‘getting it right from the start’ around tax obligations if they undertake cash transactions.

Sick leave up from 5 to 10 days

From 24 July 2021, employee sick leave entitlements increase from 5 days per year to 10 days per year

Paying Inland Revenue correctly

With Inland Revenue no longer accepting cheques, more taxpayers are moving to online banking to pay their tax bills – and this has been a learning curve for many.

Residential property investors feeling the hurt of new reforms

While most of us can accept the Government’s intentions of tipping the balance away from speculators and back towards first home buyers, the new property tax changes are going to hurt ordinary New Zealanders, mum and dad investors, and in reality, tenants themselves as the cost of providing rental stock rises to investors.  We share more here.

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