Tax Update to Mid-Year 2025
1.25 CPD Hours
Description
With Inland Revenue’s audit activity ramping up and $2B in discrepancies uncovered, this Tax Update webinar is your essential guide to staying compliant and avoiding costly penalties.
Inland Revenue’s investigation and audit activities received a further Boost of $35m in Budget 2025 (Boosted $26.5m in 2024); the results are impressive with identified discrepancies topping $2B. Now is the time for taxpayers and advisors to check their tax knowledge is up to date and avoid those nasty tax shortfall penalties.
This Tax Update webinar will cover key developments including:
- Inland Revenue’s supercharged audit activity including just released audit focus areas. (We’ll cover some pointers about those focus areas).
- Budget 2025 tax changes including Investment Boost to support capital productivity and KiwiSaver.
- Catching-up on Inland Revenue statements and decisions including tax residence, trusts, look-through companies, bright-line and many other developments.
Join us for this tax update and ensure you are prepared to meet your Inland Revenue auditor.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
A broad overview of the income tax and GST legislative and practice changes that have occurred to mid-2025.
SUITED TO
Accountants, lawyers, directors, trustees. The webinar is at an intermediate level.
PRESENTER
Maurits van den Berg, Senior Manager, Taxation Services, Baker Tilly Staples Rodway Auckland
Maurits is a Senior Manager Taxation Services at Baker Tilly Staples Rodway Auckland. He has a special interest in cross-border business and the associated GST and income tax issues. Maurits is also a co-author of the popular CCH publication “A Practical Guide to Taxing Property Transactions”.