
BUSINESS STARTUP & FORMATION
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Business StartUp & Business Formation
Starting a new business? Starting a new business is exciting and thrilling. It's all that comes after the excitement and thrill have worn off that determines whether a business will make it or not. We support you in avoiding the common pitfalls that many owners make when starting a business.
Success lies in the approach you choose to take
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StartUp Set Up & Advice
Starting A Business
- Run through a selection of business structures that best fits your needs by evaluating tax advantages, legal exposure, ease of operation and portability
- Prepare and file your application for your Inland Revenue number
- Develop a solid Partnership Agreement. This is an extremely important document for all new partnerships and will help prevent a tremendous amount of financial and emotional problems down the road
- Guide you in the setup of the right banking structure
- Suggest the right accounting software by evaluating your budget and needs
StartUp Accounting & Tax
StartUp Accounting & Tax
- Provide guidance on a comprehensive list of claimable expenses (dependent on your industry) that you need to be aware of and keep details of
- Provide correct guidance on home office, vehicle usage, entertainment and travel related expenses
- Discuss the best way to save for tax and how best to structure your bank accounts based on your situation
- Workout what percentage to save for GST and Income Tax so there is no or minimal shortfall at the end of the financial year and to avoid IRD penalties and interest
- Explain how provisional and terminal tax works
- Workout your student loan and Kiwisaver obligations
- Explain how owners' drawings works and how to best structure it to suit your situation
- Make it easy and hassle-free for you to give us accounting information to prepare GST and end of year accounts and tax returns for you.
- Prepare and file GST Returns and Business and Personal Income Tax Returns on your behalf
- Advise you of your tax obligations and tax due dates
- Regular reminders on provision of GST and accounting information
- Reminders on Provisional Tax and Terminal Tax due dates and amounts
- Ensure that everything is filed on time so you avoid costly and unnecessary IRD penalties and interest.
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Frequently Asked Questions
We can do everything online via emails and phone conversations.
However, if you prefer to meet then we can arrange that too.
Yes absolutely.
Everything including securely reviewing and digitally signing of documents can be done online.
We service clients New Zealand wide.
In fact, our clients are quite evenly split between Auckland / Rest of New Zealand.
There are a couple of reasons.
Whatever works for you - works for us...
The majority of accountants incorporate the cost of the software such as Xero subscription in their fees leading their clients to pay more. Quite often we find that a lot of clients do not even use all the features they are paying for!
We simply work with whatever the client is comfortable with. If you are using a spreadsheet or using a bank account to manage business activities or if you are using Xero or MYOB - whatever works for you is fine with us.
We don't work out of fancy offices
Over the years, we have streamlined our processes and achieved efficiency. This means that our staff can work from home and get the job done. We are fully online and use the latest technology to ensure efficiency. This leads to savings which we can pass onto the clients.
If you need to meet us - no worries. We can either meet you at a place convenient to you at a time that is good for you. Alternatively - we have an office if New Windsor, Auckland where you can pop in and see us.
Meetings are of-course by appointment only.
Nope. We work with with clients that have Xero and also those that don't or have other accounting software such as MYOB, Quickbooks etc..
We understand that if you might have your own preferred software which you are comfortable with - so we will work with whatever you are comfortable with.
We are registered Tax Agents with the Inland Revenue Department. We have an excellent rapport with them and have been awarded Certificate of Achievement for 100% filings for the last 3 years.
We are also Certified Public Accountants under CPA. We are governed by professional standards. This means that the service you get is from a registered professional accountant as oppose to one that has no governing body.
Not hard at all.
Once you agree for us to act as your accountants, we’ll get you to sign a Letter of Engagement which sets out our terms and conditions. Then we’ll contact your existing accountant and organise the smooth transfer of any information.
You won’t need to contact them at all if you don’t want to. We can take care of the lot.