Budget 2025: Attracting investment

For Kiwi businesses, Investment Boost is a new tax incentive to encourage investment in assets to increase productivity. The incentive applies only to new assets and new-to-New Zealand assets, i.e.• New assets sourced in New Zealand.• New and second-hand assets sourced from overseas.Second-hand assets from overseas are eligible because these increase the capital stock, whereas […]
Budget 2025: What about my business?

For retail businesses, it remains to be seen whether the changes will bolster consumer confidence to a point where the retail sector can rebound the way it’s been hoping to. Investment Boost and associated measures will bring some welcome tax relief and encourage spending on business assets to boost productivity. With tax incentives, a key […]