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If you are considering changing software, including payroll, please feel free to contact us to discuss so we can assist and guide you in this process. We currently recommend using Smartpayroll and Paysauce but happy to discuss this with you. Some key points to consider when changing any software: How savvy are you on the computer – some software can be quite complicated to use. What are you going to use the software for - do you do a budget?
Upcoming Key Tax date's: 28th March 2026 2nd Instalment of Provisional Tax for JUNE balance dates. 31st March 2026 Overseas Student Loans – repayments due. 7th April 2026 2025 Terminal Tax due. Online payments should be made to IRD as follows: INC 31/3/2025 (regardless of your balance date). 7th May 2026 3rd Instalment Provisional Tax MARCH balance dates. Online payments should be made to IRD as follows: INC 31/3/2026 (regardless of your balance date). GST is also due on this day instead of 28th April for the February/March period). Online payments should be made to IRD as follows: INC 31/3/2024. Please try and avoid using the tax type GAP when paying both GST and provisional tax as IRD sometimes puts a hold on these payments. We will send reminder notices prior to this date but also remember to please check your JUNK mail folder as sometimes these can end up here. Remember also that when making a payment, the period is for 31st March (regardless of your balance date) and the year will depend on whether it is Terminal Tax (due 2025) or Provisional Tax due 2026). Please don’t hesitate to call or email if you want to make sure. If you are paying IRD via Westpac you can make a cash or EFTPOS payment at any Westpac branch or Westpac Smart ATM. You will need your Tax Return or statement barcode, or you can create your own online at IRD on the link below: https://www.ird.govt.nz/managing-my-tax/make-a-payment/ways-of-paying/paying-at-westpac Please note you will need to scroll to the bottom of the page then select “create a barcode”.
The Brown Glassford team are out of the office from 12.00pm on Wednesday 18th March 2026. We are heading out to visit one of our clients' farms going through a dairy conversion. Our office will still be open from 8.00am - 5pm, if you need to drop off any records and the phone will be answered and messages left for staff to call you back the following day.
Our office will be closed over the Easter weekend, closing 5.30pm Friday 3rd Aprill re-opening Wednesday 8th April at 8.00am. If there are any urgent matters, please get in touch with one of our directors: Dave 021 222 0198 Paul: 021 263 6669 Sam: 027 215 5855 Tim: 027 636 1713
If you are posting us mail, please ensure you are addressing it to PO Box 39195, Harewood, Christchurch 8545, otherwise it will be returned to sender. Anything being sent via courier please address it with our physical address, Level 2, 504 Wairakei Road, Harewood, Christchurch 8053
Just a reminder that we do offer an ACC admin service which involves our firm acting as your agent for all your ACC related matters. ACC invoices may not always be correct and therefore you can end up paying more for your ACC levies than you need to. A fixed annual fee for this service would be charged to you annually for each trading entity. Individuals in these trading entities are included in the one fee. If the trading entity is also an employer, the charge is slightly higher. If you would like us to take over your ACC administration please get in touch with Kate, kate.ward-smith@brownglass.co.nz who will then send through any information you will need and send through an authority form for you to sign, giving us access to you ACC account.
The adult minimum wage will be increasing to $23.95 per hour from 1 April 2026. This is an increase of 0.45 cents per hour from the current hourly rate of $23.50
Clients that have any payroll queries or need some help with a payroll issue in the first instance please contact your provider. This service is part of the subscription fee you pay. We are always more than happy to help if we can but recommend trying your payroll provider initially.
We have now moved to digital signing. Going forward you will receive an email containing a document to sign and will then be required to use your cell phone number as two factor authentication to access and sign the document. It is a very straight forward and easy to follow system that we hope will make the process of signing documents much easier for our clients as well as increasing the efficiency of our in-office processes. If you have any questions about this process or need some assistance the first time you receive a document to sign using this method, please get in touch with one of the administration team Nicola or Kate, 03 365 0881.
