Our tax team provides tax advice on all tax-related matters including:
- the establishment of operating structures in New Zealand, including companies, New Zealand branches, limited and general partnerships, joint ventures and trusts,
- share and asset acquisitions and divestments,
- corporate restructurings and capital repatriations,
- capital raising,
- financing arrangements and securitisations,
- inbound and outbound investments,
- cross-border supply and service arrangements,
- insolvency and work-outs,
- employee remuneration arrangements and superannuation,
- the establishment and management of investment funds (including "PIE" funds and New Zealand limited partnerships), and
- land transactions.
The team also provides advice and assistance in relation to:
- immigration advice and assistance, and
- personal asset planning, trusts and estate management.
Our team has a strong appreciation of international tax developments affecting clients. We are experts in New Zealand international tax regimes and its tax treaty and tax information sharing network. Our team liaises closely with foreign advisors to achieve optimal international outcomes for clients.
We are specialists in representing clients in tax disputes and litigation from the tax authority audit stage to court litigation at all levels.
Bell Gully has the only New Zealand legal tax partner dedicated to indirect taxes: sales taxes (New Zealand goods and services tax (GST)), import duties and customs and excise taxes.
