ARE YOUR OVERSEAS WORKERS ENTITLED TO WORK?
If you employ overseas workers, changes to the Immigration Act that came into effect on 29 November 2010 will have an impact on your obligations in the future.
The main change for employers is that the receipt of a completed tax code declaration form will no longer be a reasonable excuse for employing a person not entitled to work in
To assist employers in determining whether a person is entitled to work in
An employer will be able to check whether a person is able to work for them, view any conditions attached to the particular visa, and see the expiry date of the visa for the prospective employee.
Overseas workers are commonly employed by vineyards and orchards to complete seasonal work under contract. As such, once an employee’s work status has been confirmed, employers are required to deduct withholding tax at 15%, unless the recipient holds a certificate of exemption.
Persons who are entitled to work in
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• Holders of Australian current permanent residents visas who are granted a
• Australian citizens who enter
• Non New Zealanders holding a valid visa with work entitlements.
How it affects you
As an employer, you must take reasonable steps to determine whether a person is entitled to work in
For further information, please visit: www.whk.co.nz
ARE YOU BREAKING THE LAW?
Section 22 of the Tax Administration Act 1994 (“TAA”) requires a person who carries on any business or any other activity for the purpose of deriving assessable income in New Zealand, to keep sufficient records in New Zealand, in the English language, to enable the Commissioner to readily ascertain information about their tax affairs.
The same requirements for GST records are contained in section 75 of the Goods and Services Tax Act 1985. Similarly, section 32 of the TAA requires that all gift-exempt bodies must keep in
It is the Commissioner’s view that only business records stored in data centres physically located in
Here at Datacom, we have spared no effort when it comes to ensuring your data is stored securely and is in line with the New Zealand Law. Your data is held on a powerful server housed in a world-class hosting facility alongside other applications for large
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2012 TAX SPECIFICATION CHANGES
From 1st april 2011 the following will come into effect:
1. Change to ACC Earners’ Levy
2. NSW tax rate - Flat percentage
Only applies if you are employed under the recognised seasonal employers scheme
3. Annual Income Calculation
This change will only impact employees on tax codes of M, ML, M SL, ME and ME SL. It will also only impact employees who are on a monthly pay frequency.
4. Change to Child Support Deduction
5. Changes to pay for school children
6. Average Daily Pay (Holidays Amendment Act 2010)
Average daily pay is a new calculation to determine what an employee should be paid when it is not possible or practicable to determine an employee’s relevant daily pay; or the employee’s daily pay varies within the pay period when holiday or leave falls.
7. Cash-Up - 4th Week Of Annual Leave
8. Transferring whole of public holiday
Datacom will be releasing a detailed guide for these changes to our clients. This detailed guide will also be released on our website.
7 MUST READ SUCCESS LESSONS FROM DALE CARNEGIE
Dale Carnegie was a famous lecturer and writer as well as the developer of very popular courses in self-improvement, salesmanship, corporate training, interpersonal skills, and public speaking.
Although born in poverty on a farm in
Let’s look at the 7 Success Lessons from Dale Carnegie.
1. Inaction Breeds Fear
“Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.”
Get busy today! If you have a good idea, put it to the test. Inaction breeds further inaction, and action breeds further action. One thing is sure: if you’re going to succeed, you’re going to have to take massive action, so get busy today!
2. Make Good Use of Your Time
“Instead of worrying about what people say of you; why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.”
Spending time thinking about how people perceive you is a vast waste of valuable time. Concentrate your time in making a difference, and people will surely admire you.
3. Failure is the Stepping Stone to Success
“Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.”
Often those with the greatest defeats also have the greatest victories. You must use discouragement and failure as tools to move you from the pit to the palace.
4. We Determine Our Happiness
“Happiness doesn’t depend on any external conditions; it is governed by our mental attitude.”
Happiness is a decision; it is not based on what’s going on around us. It’s based solely on what’s going on inside of us. Our happiness is based on the thoughts that we choose to give our attention to; the thoughts that we choose to harbour. Dale Carnegie said, “It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.”
5. Remember That Everything You Do Sends a Message
“There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.”
Everything you do sends a message. The way you dress sends a message, the way you comb your hair sends a message.Determine the message you want to send to the world, and then package yourself to ensure that message is being sent. Send a message of success and the world will receive it.
6. Do What You Enjoy
“People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.”
If you want to succeed, don’t do it for the money. Money is not a sufficient enough motivation to pull you over the many hurdles that are requisite for you to achieve success. If you want to succeed, spend your time doing what you enjoy. This way, when you succeed, you will enjoy your success.
7. Take a Chance
“The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.”
You have to take chances! You have to sometimes risk being embarrassed or risk failure in order to succeed. Success requires everything that you are; you have to put it all out there. Dare to be different, dare to succeed. Carnegie said, “We all have possibilities we don’t know about. We can do things we don’t even dream we can do.” But if you never dare, you will never know your potential.