Revenue Minister Stuart Nash has announced that the Government will move to restrict donation tax credits and gift deductions to cash donations (including payments made by credit card or bank transfer). This announcement follows the Court of Appeal decision in CIR v Roberts that upheld a High Court decision in the same matter and ruled … Continue reading
Trusts are regularly wound up. However, in the absence of formal guidelines, the steps required are not always clear. Vicki Ammundsen is presenting a webinar on winding up trusts that will highlight matters to take into consideration to ensure that the trustees adopt a suitable decision making process, that any risks to trustees are identified … Continue reading
Under New Zealand’s tax rules, rental income from land belongs to the owner of the land and it is the owner who must declare the income to Inland Revenue. Where the property is owned by a trustee or trustees, this obligation falls on the trustees because, as a general proposition, where a property is held … Continue reading
The rules that tax certain sales of land include exclusions relating to a person’s main home. These exclusions are not meant to apply where the taxpayer has a “regular pattern” of buying and selling land used as a main home, residence or business premises. A tax policy consultation document, Habitual buying and selling of land, released … Continue reading
The Taxation (KiwiSaver, Student Loans, and Remedial Matters) Bill (Bill) includes proposed amendments arising from the administrative review of the taxation of trusts. The proposed amendment relate to clarification as to what can comprise corpus and a range of amendments that clarify the nature of certain distributions and amendments that relate variously to complying, non-complying and foreign trusts … Continue reading
In Roberts v CIR the question for the court is whether the forgiveness of debt a monetary gift for the purposes of s LD 3(1)(a) of the Income Tax Act 2007? Background The Oasis Charitable Trust (the Trust), a registered charitable trust, was settled by Mrs Roberts and her late husband on 14 October 2007 to facilitate the growth of … Continue reading
The judgment in Full-Circle Staffing, LLC, Watchman Investment Trust, Financial & Tax Services, Inc., Trustee, Tax Matters Partner, Et Al. v Commissioner of Internal Revenue (Full Circle) is a consolidated judgment of the United States Tax Court. The background facts are complicated but can be summarised as follows: Mr and Mrs Pudlo restructured their freight forwarding … Continue reading
Para 438 in the decision of MezhProm Bank v Pugachev refers to a phenomenon in patent law known as the Angora cat problem first identified by Professor Franzosi, an eminent academic expert in the field: “Professor Mario Franzosi likens a patentee to an Angora cat. When validity is challenged, the patentee says his patent is … Continue reading
Draft interpretation statement PUB00261: Income tax – taxation of trusts has been released for consultation. PUB00261 summarises the tax law as it applies to trusts and when finalised it will replace the Commissioner’s original statement on the trust rules in the “Explanation of Taxation of Trusts” in the Appendix to Tax Information Bulletin Vol 1, … Continue reading
Corporate trustees are a common feature of modern trading trusts. The basic rationale is that the use of a company means that any liability that would otherwise accrue – say to a natural person trustee – accrues instead to the company and provided the directors do not breach the duties owed under the Companies Act … Continue reading
