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Taxation
Tax and Tinsel – Taxing holiday perks
The festive season is upon us! It’s a time for giving, sharing and navigating the tax treatment of Christmas-related expenditure. While the work Christmas...
Franchising
Franchise business activity 2024
Last year proved to be challenging for the New Zealand franchise sector, mirroring difficulties faced across various business industries.
Education Column
University of Waikato – Business and education combine
Launching a new campus within a developing city centre has granted The University of Waikato a unique opportunity to create an innovative way of...
The Porter Report
WHY OH WHY?
I began visiting South Korea just before the country hosted its first Olympic Games in 1988. There were already signs of building and renewal...
A D V E R T I S E M E N T
Intellectual Property Issues
2025 – Another big year?
According to the Chinese Zodiac, 29 January 2025 – 16 February 2026 is the Year of the Wood Snake.
The last Year of the Wood...
Business Sales
Healthy business? Time for a checkup!
Regular business appraisals provide vital health checks for businesses. Just as a health checkup helps assess our wellbeing, an appraisal provides a snapshot of...
Tech Talk
Why we should all be like Donald Trump and Coldplay
Whether you love or loathe them, both Donald Trump and Coldplay had an incredibly successful 2024. While their philosophies and ideologies are as different...
The Porter Report
Taking the temperature
It is easy to feel despair when we contemplate the accelerating pace of global climate change and lack of substantive action to deal with...