Chartered Accountants, Tax and Business Advisors

Steve Bennett Associates has been providing tax, business advice, assurance services and business reconstruction and turnaround management to the Whangarei and Northland community since 2002.  Our focus is to provide a broad spectrum of accounting and financial advisory services to our clients.
We are a small business ourselves and are proud of it.  Our services range from Income Tax, GST, PAYE, to Auditing, Insolvency Management and Business Management and Support.  We are also trusted advisors to the Government, regularly providing services to four separate Government agencies.
As a cornerstone to our firm for the benefit of our business services clients we strive to ensure that our client advisors manage smaller individual portfolios than that of our competitors.  The advantage being that we can provide a greater level of direct personal service.
Of a total client advisor and team support of 9, 5 of our team are Chartered Accountants therefore we have the right mix of experience, knowledge and skill base to ensure that our clients receive the services they deserve.
If you’re looking for a Chartered Accountant with the skill, experience and knowledge to help your business thrive and prosper not just for tax compliance, but also for Advice and Support; then talk to us.

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Some signs of economic recovery were revealed by EMA, read more . . . . .

Unemployment rate falls, but little growth in employment   There were 7,000 fewer people unemployed in the December 2011 quarter, Statistics New Zealand said today. In the December 2011 quarter compared with the September 2011 quarter: The unemployment rate fell 0.3 percentage points, to 6.3 percent. 3,000 more people were employed. The employment rate was [...]

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A recent article form EMA provides some food for thought on employment trends . . .

Employers opting for more experience as 40,000 youngsters get squeezed out. Old people have displaced more than 40,000 teenagers from jobs in the past five years as more choose to stay on in the workforce and employers shun youth for experience. Research by the Salvation Army’s social policy unit has found that the number of [...]

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