GST increase in NZ effective 1 October 2010

GST increases in New Zealand effective 1 October 2010. This has been heavily publicized by accounting professionals and the Inland Revenue Department in the past month. New Zealand still does not exempt necessary items such as food from GST as does Australia. Tax cuts...

GST reverse charge mechanism

On the topic of GST and cross-border transactions, a relatively unknown rule affecting the importers of services into New Zealand was enacted in 2003 under the Taxation (GST, Trans-Tasman Imputation and Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2003.   From 1 January 2005,...