Fat Cats Visa and Mastercard avoid NZ Tax

[donna]

Revenue from Visa and Mastercard transactions in NZ and Australia - flows out of these countries and others in the Pacific and through Singapore - resulting in NO local tax collected in the countries where the revenue is generated. It's worth noting that Visa and Mastercard are American financial behemoths....

[Hound]

Hi guys,

I'm considering taking on a property or two (which I don't own) to manage.

What is an acceptable percentage on the rent to charge? And hourly rate for anything else required? Any other comments welcome!


Cheers, Hound

[Nick G]

Incomes, a huge component in the price of housing, either direct (labour) or indirect (labour for suppliers) are going to go up heaps and that's going to make housing more affordable because housing won't get more expensive to compensate.

That means council fees are going down, yeah nah....

[Beano]

A: Does anyone operate management fees on cost plus or is everyone on percentage ?

B: Also what rate are you being charged on
1 industrial
2 retail
3 office
4 parking
5 ground leases (commercial and residential )

C:length of contracts
...

[SPR]

Hi all,

Do any of you have or manage a Service Tenancy? i.e Farmworker living in a Farmhouse as part of the job.

Do you inspect yourself or ask a PM to come in and do it for you?
If you ask a PM to do it for you, how do they charge? do they include a written report...

[Learning]

Is the $11k Early Repayment Charge for breaking my fixed term mortgage on my rental tax deductible?

[heisenberg]

I understand that this may differ substantially amongst you all, but when purchasing a typical freehold 3 or 4 bedroom house and calculating average annual expenses, what sort of rough figures do you use for: maintenance, property management, insurance etc.

Note that I am not talking...

[DIY_guy]

Hi,

There is now a deposit of $2,500 for resource consent applications in Auckland (used to be $1,500 less than 2 months ago).

We're at the tail end of our subdivision process and I'd like to know *generally* how much council processing fees are for resource consent applications....

[Seymour]

What sort of fees do you guys run into when doing a property file search at a council office?
I went with a friend the other day and it cost 15 bucks to look at his own property file. wtf?
Oh and if a copy of any document in the file was asked for, it was $4 a page/ jees they must have...

I own a large industrial building that I am considering putting up for lease. I was shocked by the fees charged by the first agent I approached. Can anybody please enlighten me to what the going rate is in terms of agent's commissions and fees for leasing of commercial property, as well as for selling...

[Davo36]

I was reading this today and just shaking my head. It gives 3 examples of how the RMA is stuffing up this country:

EnergyWise or EnergyStupid.

In the Straight Furrow of May 18, Grant McLachlan, in his Human Nature column tells of a farmer exploring the idea of installing...