Posts Tagged ‘Earthquake’

Tuesday 21st of June 2011

Posted: June 24, 2011 by paularetallick in Earthquake, Staff Ramblings, Uncategorized
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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 !) [...]

Redundancy Tax Credits

Posted: June 9, 2011 by paularetallick in Payroll, Tax Related
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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 [...]

Earthquake Tax Changes

Posted: June 9, 2011 by paularetallick in Payroll Stuff, Tax Related
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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) [...]

Remote office is functioning…

Posted: September 8, 2010 by justin in Earthquake, Office Space
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Hi all, I spoke too soon last week when I said we were lucky we did not need to implement our backup strategy as this morning it was implemented.  We had another large earthquake this morning which resulted in no power and no internet. We have now relocated to a spare room at Lighting 351 [...]

Another earthquake has just hit, shifting office

Posted: September 8, 2010 by justin in Earthquake
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We have just experienced another earthquake which has lost us power.  We are going to vacating our office and will work from Kerry’s home.  This may take an hour or so to get setup. Not sure what effect this will have to mail and phones so please uses the following phones until further notice: E-mail [...]

Canterbrians concerned about lost wages!

Posted: September 7, 2010 by justin in Earthquake
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Quake affected Canterbrians are concerned they may suffer financially because of the number of workplaces closed for business. Unions say casual workers may be particularly affected. Prime Minister John Key says Work and Income and the Mayoral Fund are there to offer support for workers. He’s also had indications from some employers they’ll continue to [...]

Ezypay Earthquake Update

Posted: September 5, 2010 by paularetallick in Earthquake, Ezy Speak
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Well as you all must have heard by now Christchurch has suffered from a devastating earthquake.  Luckily our office has not been affected so it will be business as usual from Monday. One thing we are unsure of at the moment is what courier service is available so depending on the outcome tomorrow the only [...]