Skeeve Stevens wrote:
Seriously?
We're just asking for others experiences Steve, not Tax advice. Armed with others experiences, it can help us prepare the questions we need to ask our accounting people or may point us in the right direction.
If you don't want to offer advice - then don't - but your commentary on whether the advice is valid or not, wasn't what was asked for.
Hey Skeeve, I don't recall giving any commentary on the validity of the advice, I just suggested that this was the wrong place to ask for it. Some of the advice _might_ be perfectly valid, but, along with the other people on this list, I am neither qualified one way or other, and (also probably along with the other 1000 odd people on this list) I don't really care about your tax problems either. * This is an operational list, to discuss issues relating to networking and the occasional beer. * You are asking for advice (or, experiences if you like - I wont bother going into the semantics here) on importing goods and services and the relevant tax laws surrounding these activities. I'm sure that you can see the difference between the two points. Oh, and I'm pretty sure I did offer (along with Matthew) about the only solid advice you can get from this list. "Go and ask someone that actually knows" I'm sure if you posed your original question to a tax accountant or the IRD they would have no problem answering you. I'm sick of this subject now, and have no more intention on continuing this thread. Good luck with finding a GST mailing list, google may be able to help in this. Alternatively you could try.. http://taxpolicy.ird.govt.nz/ http://www.ird.govt.nz/ Advice for importing goods to New Zealand http://www.customs.govt.nz/nr/rdonlyres/41e43da7-b5bb-4412-a711-0ee7879b306e... (sorry, its a PDF) Some people that may be able to help http://www.quantum-solutions.co.nz/ All this from a few quick google searches. HTH, -- Steve.