Posts Tagged ‘Christchurch Earthquake’

Normally I blog about payroll related topics , but this morning when I opened The Press, on the front page one of the headings was ” This is  why you had a sleepless night”  On Tuesday night from 10.34 pm when the 5.4 aftershock  hit ( I would swear it was closer to a 5.9 !) [...]

Earthquake Update

Posted: June 13, 2011 by SpaceBug in Earthquake
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We have completed all Monday pays so going to head home soon. Tomorrow we will wait and see but here’s hoping all will be well. Cheers Justin

Earthquakes again…………….

Posted: June 13, 2011 by SpaceBug in Earthquake
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We are experiencing a heap of earthquakes at the moment, the largest being a 6.0. Everything is still standing and working but some of the staff have left.  We have managed to complete all the Monday payrolls but there is a problems with sending reports so we will leave those where not critical.  We will [...]

The entitlement to a redundancy tax credit was due to expire on March 31, 2011 but it has been extended to September 30. 2011. If an employee is made redundant they are entitled to receive the redundancy tax credit of 6% for the first $60,000. ( i.e a maximum of $3,600.) To claim the rebate [...]

After the September and March earthquakes some companies paid their employees an ex gratia payment to help them over this unsettling period.  Originally, the IRD deemed the payments were taxable but tax changes have been introduced to respectively fix this.  This applies to any payments made within 8 weeks of either earthquakes ( some conditions do apply) [...]

Christchurch – Our City

Posted: March 19, 2011 by SpaceBug in Earthquake
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The following footage shows you what Christchurch looks like now.    

A number of client’s have asked us how we managed to get operational again so quickly when compared to other CBD based businesses which were not so lucky, so I thought the best way would be to outline what we put in place after the first earthquake that we were able to put into operation after the [...]

The Canterbury Chamber of Commerce has put together a useful document of things you can and can’t do in relation to you staff in the event of an emergency. You can read the article HERE!