Like many other parts of the world, NZ is in Lockdown. Which means that I’m in lockdown! (accountants are totally non-essential apparently) Part of being under lockdown means that essential services, like supermarkets are still open. So you can (and should) still go shopping during the lockdown. But given that you should be making less
UPDATE: since the March 2021 wage subsidy was announced, I thought it wise to update this old blog post with some new information There are a lot of opinions out there on how best to utilise the COVID-19 wage subsidy when you receive it. So I have in this article, compiled some of practices that
So it has come to this – the situation regarding the COVID-19 outbreak has gotten bad enough that it has warranted the Government of NZ to declare a nationwide lockdown for the next 4 weeks (and possibly even more – depending how the situation develops). To be fair, we are one of the lucky ones
A year has passed and multiple assistance packages have come and gone since the COVID-19 pandemic started early last year (damn you 2020!). While NZ is still doing better than the rest of the world (generally speaking) we continue to battle occasional flare-ups here and there (but mostly just in Auckland, really). The last lockdown