Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD hour in Substantive Law
* This interactive online recording includes questions and quizzes requiring critical thinking about the topics, so you have no annual limits to the number of points/hours you can claim with this format of learning. Please verify with your CPD rules
Chair
Sue Barker, Director, Sue Barker Charities Law and Charities Law Association of Australia and New Zealand
Tax Developments Affecting New Zealand Charities and Not-for-Profit
- Insights and trends from the latest Inland Revenue charity/NFP data
- Charity/NFP tax policy work and developments
- Inland Revenue’s latest operational and interpretation items
- Making the most of charity/NFP tax concessions
Presented by Nicholas Bland, Senior Associate, Simpson Grierson
Learning Objective:
- Be updated on tax developments affecting New Zealand charities and incorporated societies
Presenters
Nicholas Bland, Senior Associate, Simpson Grierson
Nick is a senior associate in the tax group. He advises on all aspects of New Zealand's domestic and international tax law, including corporate and personal income tax and withholding taxes, double taxation conventions, GST (New Zealand's value-added tax), and customs duties and tariffs. Nick works closely with the firm's corporate advisory, commercial, banking and finance, local government, and commercial property groups, providing advice to a wide range of clients. This includes input into due diligence exercises, structuring advice, and contractual drafting for business acquisitions, business divestments, and other transactions. It also includes liaising with Inland Revenue on behalf of clients in relation to tax compliance and dispute resolution matters and rulings, and making submissions on tax policy developments. In addition, Nick is an expert in relation to charities and not-for-profit organisations. He provides extensive advice to such organisations, and to corporates and other clients involved with them, in relation to both tax and general matters. He regularly deals with the Charities Commission and Inland Revenue on such matters.
Sue Barker, Director, Sue Barker Charities Law
Sue Barker is the director of Sue Barker Charities Law, a boutique law firm based in Wellington, specialising in charities law and public tax law. Since its founding in 2012, the firm has won a number of awards, including Boutique Law Firm of the Year at the New Zealand Law Awards. Sue is recognised by the International Charity Law Network as a Charity Law Scholar. Sue is also a director of the Charity Law Association of Australia and New Zealand, and a co-author of the text The Law and Practice of Charities in New Zealand (LexisNexis, 2013). In 2019, Sue was awarded the New Zealand Law Foundation International Research Fellowship Te Karahipi Rangahau ā Taiao, to undertake research into the question “What does a world-leading framework of charities law look like?”. The final report from the Fellowship, entitled Focus on purpose, was released in April 2022 making 70 recommendations for charities law reform in Aotearoa New Zealand. More information about Sue and the research can be found at www.charitieslaw.co and www.charitieslawreform.nz.
