Hi there, The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals. On this New Year, may you change your direction and not dates, change your...
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Welcome to our latest Newsletter In New Zealand de-facto relationships are increasingly prevalent. In the 1996 Census there were just over 236,000 people in de facto relationships. By 2013 this figure had risen to 409,000. While the 2018 census won’t...
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Welcome to our latest newsletter, As many of you may know, the Overseas Investment Amendment Bill received Royal Assent in August and is set to come into effect on 22 October 2018. The new legislation will have a significant effect...
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Welcome to this month's newsletter. We have a selection of new articles for you this month, and we're sure something of interest for everyone! As always, please get in touch if we can be of assistance. Kind regards The Directors...
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Hello Welcome to our July Newsletter In New Zealand, the settlement of a trust is a frequently utilised legal structure to hold and protect assets for the benefit of people in the future. However what happens when the trustees of...
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Hello Welcome to our June Newsletter In 2009 New Zealand passed a law called the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism Act 2009 (we call it the AML/CFT law). The purpose of the law reflects New Zealand’s commitment to…
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Hello Welcome to our May Newsletter To combat rapidly rising residential house prices both the previous National and the new Labour led Coalition Government have passed legislation to introduce new rules for residential land sales with the aim of dampening…
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Hello Welcome to our April Newsletter, On 22 March, Housing Minister Phil Twyford introduced the Residential Tenancies (Prohibiting Letting Fees) Amendment Bill to Parliament. Prior to the 2017 election Labour had pledged to ban the fees because the fees were yet…
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Hello Welcome to our March Newsletter, With the new government now surpassing its first 100 days in office a prevalent tax ‘loop-hole’ is about to be closed. On the Labour party’s pre-election tax policy wish-list was the ring-fencing of residential…
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Hello February is always a strange month. Normally, January is a bit of a write off with holidays and many businesses closing down for several weeks. So February is the month that everyone wants to jump back in and be…
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