Trusts face clampdown in Labours Strategy

Source: NZ Herald – Adam Bennett Trusts, Family Trusts and Trust Law. Labour would target hundreds of millions of dollars worth of income rich people shelter in trusts as a key part of its “tax switch” package unveiled this week. The party believes it can raise $300 million a year in additional tax with new [...]

Newspaper article: Accountants expect capital gains tax bonanza

Source: Business Day Tax experts are licking their lips at a boom in possible work to help navigate clients from being the haves to the “have yachts”. Labour’s initial proposal for a capital gains tax came with a promise that a panel of experts would iron out any teething problems, but the accountancy industry wasted [...]

Quay Law Conveyancing Article – The process to purchasing a house. Now on Youtube.

Recent upload onto Youtube regarding Conveyancing / Property Law – The Process to Purchasing a House in New Zealand. This article was written by Ian Mellett of Auckland law firm, Quay law NZ. Please click on link to view YouTube video: LINK For full article please visit our Quay Law Website: LINK

NZ Companies Office on Facebook. Do a companies search on Facebook.

Online Marketing for the New Zealand Companies office.  On the 30th May 2011 the Companies Office launched a new way to search the Companies Office register via Facebook. The New Zealand Companies Office is the first in the world to offer this service via Facebook – now you have a legitimate reason to be on [...]

Family trust funds under siege

By Nick Smith  Jun 17, 2011 – Source NZ Herald  Are family trusts still a safe haven for assets and income? asks Nick Smith. The family trust is under siege as never before. Creditors, lawyers, government agencies and, yes, other family members are storming the trust castle walls in the courts, and pressing the government [...]

A Property Report for Remuera & Parnell – May 2011 Issue

The Rob Report, a local property report provided to Conveyancing Lawyers Quay Law by Robert Ashton of Bayleys (Remuera).   Click on LINK  for the Auckland property report.   Dear Valued Rob Report Subscriber,  Please find attached a copy of The Rob Report for Remuera & Parnell – May 2011 Issue.  Over recent weeks we have [...]

Real Estate Agents – Current Property Market and its Intricacies (Herald Homes)

  The residential property sector last year had many experts scratching their heads as the market failed to reignite in its usual   cyclical fashion. Even Auckland’s best agents had to work extremely hard at their networks to achieve the usual amount of   business.   Heraldhomes talks to some of the Auckland property market’s [...]

Gift duty ‘switched from rich to poor’

 Source: Rob Stock – Sunday Star Times – 8 May 2011 The abolition of gift duty, which could prove a gift for the rich, will come just months after a backdoor form of gift duty was introduced for the poor, an anti-poverty action group says. The Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) said last week that [...]

NZ Herald. Economist tips good things for Auckland NZ

5:30 am The Auckland economy is heading into a sweet spot as the region benefits from low interest rates and a low exchange rate with the Australian dollar, says a leading economist. The recession hit Auckland earlier and harder than New Zealand as a whole, but it was already out-performing the rest of the country [...]

Remuera (South) homes listed and/or Sold By Local Real Estate Agent Steve Koerber

This Remuera homes property report has been provided to Quay Law by local real estateagent, Steve Koerber of Barfoot & Thompson. It’s been a busy few months since my last Southern Slopes newsletter.  Buyers and sellers are out in force and March was Barfoot & Thompson’s busiest month for four years.  The big news in [...]

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