By Gina Gatchell, Director In 2010 I received a call from a very upset US citizen about the enactment of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act. She sent me the article she had just read, which set out the future of information reporting by institutions outside the...
Following on from the January 2018 measures introduced under the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act, the IRS released Notice IR-2019-23 on Wednesday, 27 February 2019. The latest notice is a fresh warning to taxpayers with overdue debt. They are...
New Zealand has both extinct and dormant volcanoes and is overdue for an eruption. By Gina Gatchell, Director With enough rumblings to cause a volcanic eruption, the capital gains tax debate is currently raging in New Zealand. The bonfire was ignited after the Tax...
‘Most New Zealanders recognize the importance of paying tax and meet their tax obligations. Some, however, do not. Tax avoidance reduces the integrity of the tax system and erodes social capital. It is also fundamentally unfair, because it means that compliant...
Are you getting the classification of your trust correct for US tax purposes? In 2018 the Internal Revenue Service started a campaign targeting foreign trusts’ failure to comply with the filing requirements of US owners[1] of foreign trusts, including ownership, and...
