Why I’m passionate about financial literacy

Hi accounting fans, My name is Samir ‘Sam’ Harith. And I’m passionate about Financial Literacy.  Those of you who follow my blog would have known this by now. For those of you who are new to this blog, welcome and I hope you have found many useful tips to help you along your journey towards

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