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WHK walks for a cause

Thursday, 26 January 2012

WHK have formed a team and will be getting out from behind our desks in this year's Hawke’s Bay Relay For Life on 3rd & 4th March.

There will be over 20 staff from our Hastings and Waipukurau office walking throughout the night to raise funds for our local Cancer Society.

Relay For Life is a life-changing event that brings together more than 3.5 million people worldwide every year to fight back against a disease that takes too much from too many.
WHK are making a financial and physical


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QCs, LAQCs and now LTCs

Thursday, 27 January 2011

At the end of last year, the Government released the new legislation in relation to the tax treatment of Qualifying Companies (QCs) and Loss Attributing Qualifying Companies (LAQCs). Many ‘mum and dad' investors have shareholdings in QCs/LAQCs: they have been popular ways of holding interests particularly in residential and commercial rental property but also in numerous other types of investment or activity. The tax law changes proposed by the Government are about to change all that.

The


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Time to Act

Monday, 24 May 2010

The highlights for Budget 2010:

  • Personal tax cuts across the board from 1 October 2010 with the top rate dropping from 38% to 33%
  • An Increase in GST from 12.5% to 15% from 1 October 2010
  • A cut in the company tax rate from 33% to 28% from the start of the 2011/12 income year
  • A suite of measures against property investment including removal of depreciation on all building and tightening of QC and LAQC rules
  • Removal of all 20% depreciation loading on all new depreciable assets acquired from

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