The recent publicity about AFL players being pinged for income tax as "entertainers" when they played the Anzac Day matches here is interesting. See here: http://www.3news.co.nz/Wellington-AFL-game-hit-with-tax/tabid/415/articleID/355731/Default.aspx Like everything...
Iain Blakeley
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Bodies corporate and GST
Last week the Revenue Minister issued another Discussion Document on the GST treatment of bodies corporate. The IRD seems to have come full circle on this one. See here: Bodies corporate and GST. It is proposed our GST legislation will exempt a body corporate under...
VAT and online sales
This is a very good item on the wider business implications of proposed changes in Europe to the VAT treatment of online digital media sales. http://performance.ey.com/2014/02/20/vat-change-online-sales-just-tax-concern/ Cheers Iain
Global VAT alignment edges closer
At the Global Forum on VAT in Tokyo last week 86 countries signed up to the first agreed framework for applying VAT to internationally traded services and intangibles. The new guidelines set out core VAT principles to be applied when taxing services and intangibles,...