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Volume: 31, Issue: 01 (2019)

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Year: 2019, Volume 31, Issue: 01
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PRODUCT RULING - BR PRD 18/06
 
Description: The Arrangement is a mortgage offset banking product (the Product) that the Bank offers to those customers (individuals) who take out a home loan.

Categories: BANKING  BINDING RULING  HOME LOAN - OFFSET  MORTGAGE  MORTGAGE OFFSET BANKING PRODUCT 

Referenced Entities:
  • INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL BANK OF CHINA (NEW ZEALAND) LIMITED
Countries:
  • CHINA
Updated: 22 / 02 / 2019
Reference: 
2019_31_01_001
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PRODUCT RULING - BR PRD 18/07
 
Description: The Arrangement is the formation of an unincorporated joint venture by six limited partnerships (Millwood Forest LP, Glenwood Forest LP, Goodwood Forest LP, Homewood Forest LP, Longwood Forest LP and Majestic Pine Forest LP) (Forestry Partnerships) who each own a forest in the Emerald Hills Forest Estate in order to facilitate the efficient and effective harvest of their timber.

Categories: BINDING RULING  HARVEST  TIMBER 

Legislation: Referenced Entities:
  • MILLWOOD FOREST LP
  • GLENWOOD FOREST LP
  • GOODWOOD FOREST LP
  • HOMEWOOD FOREST LP
  • LONGWOOD FOREST LP
  • MAJESTIC PINE FOREST LP
Updated: 07 / 03 / 2019
Reference: 
2019_31_01_002
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IS 18/07: Goods and services tax - zero-rating of services related to land
 
Description: This Interpretation Statement concerns 1 April 2017 amendments to the GSTA. The amendments relate to the circumstances in which services related to land can be zero-rated under s 11A(1)(e) and (k).

Categories: GOODS AND SERVICES TAX  PROPERTY - LAND  ZERO RATING 

Legislation:
  • (GST) Section 11A (1) (E)
  • (GST) Section 11A (1) (K)
Updated: 26 / 02 / 2019
Reference: 
2019_31_01_003
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QB 18/15: GST - when will goods and services supplied in connection with the repatriation of human remains from New Zealand be zero-rated?
 
Description: When will goods and services supplied in connection with the repatriation of human remains from New Zealand be zero-rated?

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Reference: 
2019_31_01_004
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QB 18/16: Income tax - bright line test - main home exclusion - sale of subdivided section
 
Description: This Question We've Been Asked (QWBA) explains when a section subdivided from a residential property sold within the bright-line period will be excluded from the bright-line test. It will be of interest to sellers seeking to rely on the main home exclusion.

Categories: BRIGHT LINE TEST  PROPERTY 

Updated: 
Reference: 
2019_31_01_005
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QB 18/17: Income tax - bright-line test - farmland and main home exclusions - sale of lifestyle blocks
 
Description: This Question We've Been Asked (QWBA) explains when lifestyle blocks sold within the bright-line period will be excluded from the bright-line test. It will be of interest to sellers seeking to rely on the farmland or main home exclusions.

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Reference: 
2019_31_01_006
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Amount of honoraria paid to Royal New Zealand Plunket Trust volunteers that shall be regarded as expenditure incurred in production of that payment
 
Description: This determination is made under section RD 8(3) and shall apply to honoraria paid to the Royal New Zealand Plunket Trust ('Plunket') volunteers who undertake voluntary activities for Plunket.

Categories: EXPENDITURE  HONORARIA  SCHEDULAR PAYMENT 

Legislation: Referenced Entities:
  • ROYAL NEW ZEALAND PLUNKET TRUST
Updated: 17 / 02 / 2019
Reference: 
2019_31_01_007
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Court of Appeal holds that expenditure incurred in deriving dividends is deductible pursuant to s DB 55 of the Income Tax Act 2007
 
Description: In its tax returns for the 2011 and 2012 income years, NRS Media Holdings Ltd ('NRS') claimed deductions for expenditure incurred in deriving exempt foreign dividends. The Commissioner of Inland Revenue ('the Commissioner') disallowed those deductions on the basis that the expenditure did not have the necessary nexus with the dividends.

Categories: DIVIDEND  EXPENDITURE 

Legislation: Referenced Entities:
  • NRS MEDIA HOLDINGS LTD
Updated: 
Reference: 
2019_31_01_008
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Application to appeal decisions relating to proceedings that have been struck out
 
Description: In this proceeding, before the Court of Appeal, Dr Muir appealed both High Court decisions on the basis that in his view he was entitled to replead his challenge proceedings as they involved facts the courts had not previously considered. Ultimately, the Court of Appeal found for the Commissioner, awarding her costs and dismissed both of Dr Muir's appeals.

Categories: AMENDMENT  PLEADING  STRIKE OUT 

Updated: 28 / 03 / 2019
Reference: 
2019_31_01_009
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High Court grants third party access to Court file
 
Description: Kea Investments Ltd ('Kea'), a successful party in a recent decision of the High Court of England and Wales (Glenn v Watson [2018] EWHC 2016 (Ch)), is considering options for enforcement against the Valley Trust, which owned shares in Cullen Group Ltd ('CGL'). This decision relates to Kea's application to access court documents, specifically the formal court record of judgments, orders and minutes of the court, pursuant to r 8 of the Senior Courts (Access to Court Documents) Rules 2017 ('the Rules').

Categories: LEGAL 

Referenced Entities:
  • KEA INVESTMENTS LTD
  • VALLEY TRUST
  • CULLEN GROUP LTD
Updated: 06 / 02 / 2019
Reference: 
2019_31_01_010
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