Take aim at your taxes with AIM

In the last article we covered provisional taxes! In today’s article we’ll look at provisional taxes’ younger, fancier and more high-tech cousin – the Accounting Income Method (which is handily abbreviated to AIM!) What is the AIM? The Accounting Income Method is a recent development by the IRD to make it easier for tax payers

Provisional Tax Explained

Disclaimer: NZ tax specific article ahead – it may not apply to you if you are not an NZ tax resident. One of the biggest shockers for my clients at the end of a tax year is finding a giant red number on their online account saying that they still owe the IRD money EVEN

Should you be laying off your team?

Sales are down, you’re struggling to get demand back up and to top it all off it increasingly looks like we are heading for a global recession.  Often when times are hard, some business owners find themselves asking this question: “Should I be laying off my employees?” Some business owners Well, to simply answer this

How to measure productivity if you’re self employed

Hi there accounting fans! Today’s blog post has been generously contributed by the folks over ath ViAGO international. This particular piece has been written by a ViAGO team member, Gemma Mckenzie! Self-employment brings the freedom of being your own boss – there is no management oversight, no one telling you what to do or when