Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD hour
* 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
Shi Sheng Cai (Shoosh), Senior Associate, Copeland Ashcroft
Tax Law Essentials for Immigration Lawyers
- Becoming a tax resident in New Zealand
- Transitional resident’s exemption from certain foreign-sourced income
- Specific issues applying to non-resident contractors in New Zealand
- New Zealand’s settlor-based trust regime and implications for new migrants
- Application of the financial arrangement rules, withholding tax rules, and FIF rules to new migrants
Presented by Conor Tinker, Senior Associate, Chapman Tripp
Learning Objectives:
- Understand New Zealand tax residency and transitional exemptions
- Identify tax issues for non-resident contractors and new migrants
- Apply key tax rules, including trusts and financial arrangements
Presenters
Shi Sheng Cai (Shoosh), Senior Associate, Copeland Ashcroft
Shi Sheng Cai (Shoosh) is a Senior Associate at Copeland Ashcroft and regularly acts for employers to help with immigration matters. He has over 7 years of work experience in the immigration sector including experience in the areas of global mobility, corporate immigration, investor migration and expertise with complex New Zealand immigration matters. Shoosh is a member of the Law Association Immigration Committee and is an author for Thomson Reuters Human Rights Law resource. You will find Shoosh "a great guy to deal with". He enjoys working with government officers and is a critical thinker with an insightful legal mind.
Conor Tinker, Senior Associate, Chapman Tripp
Conor is an experienced tax advisor with a passion for solving novel tax issues for clients in a range of practice areas, including banking and finance, mergers and acquisitions, property and trusts. Conor’s clients include listed companies, large multi-national enterprises, banks, private equity, high net worth individuals and not-for-profits. Conor has extensive experience advising on relevant tax considerations of moving to or doing business in New Zealand.
