Ask a New Zealand tax question in your own words. The answer is drawn from Inland Revenue's published guidance — re-read every night — and shows you the page it came from.
General information drawn from IRD guidance, not advice on your own circumstances, and not a tax agent service.
Every answer comes from Inland Revenue pages and guides, and nowhere else: business expenses and income, GST, provisional tax, employing staff, and tax for the self-employed and for companies. They are read again each night, and a page that changes is checked by a person. Inland Revenue material is Crown copyright, reused under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence. LedgerMind is not affiliated with or endorsed by Inland Revenue.
Everyday tax situations for New Zealand small businesses, answered in two or three questions. Each answer says what it means for income tax and GST, how to record it, and where IRD says so.
Coffee with a client, morning tea for the team, or a flat white on your own between jobs: three different answers. Pick your situation and see what you can claim for income tax and GST in New Zealand.
Money arriving in the business account is not always a sale. Topping up from savings, a loan, a customer who paid the wrong account, or paying the business back for something private: what each one means for tax and GST in New Zealand.