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No news roundups. Each of these comes out of work we actually do — the boxes people fill in wrong, the penalty arithmetic after the 2026 reform, and the input tax that was never recoverable in the first place. Every figure is sourced to the legislation it comes from.
Compliance16 August 20269 min read
The group filed the sale. You left. The customer sent the goods back in September. From 1 August 2026 the credit note is yours, in your return, even though the original VAT sat on the group TRN.
Read the pieceCompliance15 August 20269 min read
Nobody argues about the 5%. The arguments are about whether the piece of paper carrying it was a tax invoice at all, and that is decided by a list most accounting systems only half implement.
Read the pieceCompliance14 August 202611 min read
The Ministry of Finance gave large businesses three more months to appoint a service provider. It did not give them three more months to be ready, and those are not the same gift.
Read the pieceFiling10 August 20269 min read
Fourteen boxes, two of them filled in for you before you start. Here is what belongs in each one, and the four that account for almost every correction we are asked to make.
Read the piecePenalties10 August 20268 min read
The penalty for owning up changed on 14 April 2026. It is now 1% a month, and the gap between disclosing and being caught is wider than it has ever been. Here is the arithmetic.
Read the pieceInput tax10 August 20269 min read
Three categories of blocked input tax, one rule change from 2024 that most published guidance still gets wrong, and a timing condition that turns a valid claim into a wrong-period claim.
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