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Interest rate cuts rolling in

The Reserve Bank is cutting rates to boost the economy, aiming for a 3% OCR by 2025.

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New Business Funding Product from Tax Traders – TAXI

Alliott NZ uses Tax Traders to manage client tax payments, offering a 7.09% Taxi funding facility.

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Alliotts Spring Update 2023

Our Spring 2023 newsletter has just dropped featuring a range of topics to get you through to the end of 2023.

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Small business cashflow (loan) scheme changes

This month the Government announced changes to the Small Business Cashflow (loan) Scheme. Our article provides you with information on these changes.

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COVID-19 Small Business Cashflow Scheme and Business Finance Guarantee Scheme

Last week the Government announced it will provide interest-free loans for a year to small businesses impacted by the COVID-19 to support their immediate cash flow needs and meet fixed costs.

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Paying Income Tax to Tax Traders vs the IRD

Since its inception, we have worked with Tax Traders to ensure that our clients achieve better outcomes than just paying tax to the IRD directly. Now that Tax Traders have no minimum use limits, we would like to highlight this to all Alliotts clients.

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Special Tax Alert - Coronavirus COVID19

The New Zealand Government has announced a $12.1billion business continuity package aimed at assisting businesses through the COVID-19 situation. The largest element of the package is the delivery of $5.1billion in wage subsidies to businesses and the delivery of support for workers needing to self-isolate, delivered through the Ministry of Social Development.

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A tale of several cities (in NZ)

The Reserve Bank of Australia cut the cash rate to a record low this month but banks passed on only half of it at a retail level. A similar outcome was likely in New Zealand should the RBNZ follow suit, with bank funding costs having risen sharply this year.

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You can always find a reason for not investing

Have you ever seen a child standing tentatively at the edge of a swimming pool? She's torn between her desire to join the gang in the water and her fear of diving in. In committing to the market, investors can be like that.

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Which hat are you wearing?

People with many hats require many different investment solutions. In our opinion, that's a good thing.

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Interest rates up, down or around?

Predicting interest rate movement remains quite difficult, particularly the longer-term interest rates which are impacted to a greater extent by world events. Regardless of whether you want to be a short or long-term player it would seem to make sense to see what the Reserve Bank says on 10 September.