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BIZ.org.nz - on-line transactional facilities for various forms for GST, ACC and Government departments.
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www.business
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This site was set up by the Ministry of Economic Development to provide opportunity for business owners, operators and people interested in business to express their opinions on proposed or existing government regulations. The website will also notify people on the database of relevant public consultation documents.

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KIWISAVER - FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS FOR EMPLOYERS - download the pdf document

Myth that small businesses fail after a couple of years
A new research project shows at least 77.6% of NZ small and medium enterprises were still surviving at the seven-year cut-off point in a recent study of 1511 participants. The report is titled ‘Seven Years and Still Trading: Exploding the high SME mortality myth”, by David Tweed, a research associate of the NZ Centre for SME Research based at Massey University in Welling and Judy McGregor, Equal Employment Opportunities Commissioner.

Research on small business failure to date suggests a preoccupation with helping struggling small businesses to survive at the expense of promoting best practice and transferring growth strategies among small businesses so they can succeed. The report says the main reason failure estimates have been wrong is researchers have not tried hard enough to find SMEs. This study used six methods: Internet search, phone book search, telephone call, companies register search, a paper based survey posted to a named owner of the business then posted to ‘the owner/manager’ of the business. Each method turned up more businesses and SMEs are defined as having fewer than 100 employees; but 69.8% of the sample employed fewer than five full time equivalent staff, 29.1% employed five to 49 and 1.1% employed more than 50

World Bank Survey

A World Bank survey rates NZ as the easiest place of 155 countries to do business - Australia was sixth. NZ ranked first in the property registration, second in licensing, fourth for starting a business and for ease of hiring and firing, and seventh in getting credit.

Business tax review timetable
The government will release its Business Tax Review proposals for consultation by mid June 2006 at the latest, finance minister Michael Cullen and revenue minister Peter Dunne, say. “Although the scope of the review is still being considered, we envisage some very bold measures emerging. It will not be a matter of tinkering with the tax rules,” the ministers say.

The review is a key part of the post-election confidence and supply agreements with United Future and NZ First and is aimed at giving better incentives for productivity gains and improved competitiveness with Australia. Dunne says even though the slowing economy presented challenges for tax reform, the need to remain very competitive with NZ’s biggest trading partner, Australia, made it essential the process be wide-ranging and timely.

Business Demographic Statistics for Orewa

Online Patent Work
Clients can now submit all their trademarks, patents and design correspondence, online, to the Intellectual Property Office of NZ (IPONZ), and pay online for correspondence requiring fees. This is an extension to online trademark correspondence released in January. Only registered users of the IPONZ website can access the online correspondence facility.

Free Job Ads
Rightjob.co.nz is a clear and functional job search facility, free to job seekers and advertisers, says founder, Adam Lucas. Job seekers and organisations can register personal and corporate profiles, with free advertising a couple of clicks away, but without complicated contracts, delays or commitment required. There is also advice on CV writing, interview preparation and help for the assessment process.

Saving with KiwiSaver
Employers will be encouraged to contribute to workers’ savings funds in the Governemnt’s KiwiSaver scheme, announced in Budget 2005. Inland Revenue will manage the accounts and workers have to opt out if they don’t want to take part. A bill is being drafted with the fine detail.

TOP WEBISTES

New Zealand’s 10 most popular business and finance websites are

1) Westpac.co.nz 69.173

2) asbbank.co.nz 65.450

3) nationalbank.co.nz 66.104

4) xtramsn.co.nz/businessandmoney 29.764

5) anz.co.nz 30.782

6) nzherald.co.nz/business 29.083

7) stuff.co.nz/business 25.525

8) companies.govt.nz 23.465

Source: Nielsen/NetRatings Market Intelligence, Business And Finance Category, week ending March 26th 2006

ACC Offers Discounts

A 10% levy discount is being offered to small businesses and self-employed people in five industries, in an initiative from the ACC, starting during the April 2006-07 year. To improve health and safety practices the scheme is aimed at recognising businesses managing workplace hazards. About 90% of businesses are classified as small. More than half the total claims for all workplace injuries are from someone working in a small business. Practical resources will be provided for operators who often don't have access to the same safety management resources as larger enterprises. Of greater concern is the estimated 1800 business owners per year who close their business as a consequence of workplace injury. ACC are targeting the industries where most of the injuries are concentrated, and it won't take much of a reduction to make the exercise worthwhile for all parties.

Business Consultation On-Line

You can register now for the recently launched NZ Business Consultation website www.businessconsultation.co.nz which has been set up by the Ministry of Economic Development to provide the opportunity for business owners, operators and people interested in business to express their opinions on proposed existing government regulations. The website will also notify people on the database of relevant public consultation documents. The ministry has been looking at ways to improve consultation with small businesses for some time, and saw a similar database in the UK which was successful.

Life after a Business Sale

The sale of a small to medium size business will normally occur in one of three ways. It will be the result of a planned exit strategy or marketing initiative, a surprise to the owner following an unsolicited offer from a buyer or following a forced sale following ill health. Very often the vendor is approaching retirement and the sale price, which represents the total of his available capital, will determine his future lifestyle. The realistic options for the person after selling their business are either to buy a commercial property, or to invest the funds in interest bearing securities. Where the capital sum is less than $1 million it is generally true that an investment portfolio is going to prove easier to manage and be more rewarding than a commercial property. See www.fpia.org.nz for a list of likely professional advisers.

Have you joined the Auckland Region's Resouce Waste Exchange yet ?

RENEW Resource exchange is a region-wide information exchange designed to help your business find markets for your industrial by-products, surplus materials and waste. Through RENEW, waste generators can be matched with waste users and reusers.

RENEW is a free service available to all business and industry and also may be used by non-profit organisations and schools to locate materials they need.

Benefits
Use the RENEW programme to:
- receive low or no cost materials
- reduce disposal and purchase costs
- find markets for your surplus materials

Goal
The goal of RENEW is to conserve energy, finite resources and landfill space and to create better understanding about alternatives for materials use and reuse.

Go to our website at www.renewwasteexchange.org.nz

Rodney citizens happiest with
Quality of Life

Rodney residents are more than satisfied with the good life they have here in Rodney. In fact, they are the most satisfied people in New Zealand.

Quality of Life 2004 survey results show Rodney scoring 91 per cent, at the top of the list of 12 urban centres in New Zealand, when it comes to satisfaction with their quality of life. The survey was carried out by the 12 urban areas in conjunction with the Ministry of Social Development, with 524 Rodney residents taking part.

Over 90 per cent of those surveyed in Rodney professed to feel safe and with a sense of freedom from crime in their neighbourhoods after dark.
Rodney topped the poll for having a sense of community and came second to Tauranga in considering litter lying on the street not to be a problem.

Rodney Mayor John Law says Rodney is a great place to live and more and more people are waking up to the fact.

"Rodney is the fastest-growing district or city in the survey," he says. "This has created a huge challenge as council struggles to put in place the necessary infrastructure for growth."

On the downside, 80 per cent of Rodney participants said they found it difficult to visit their GP when they
wanted to. Mr Law says the zoning of land for a medical centre in Silverdale and an upgrade of the Wellsford Medical Centre would help alleviate this problem.

Two other gripes Rodney residents have are the lack of public transport - 66 per cent said they hadn't used public transport in the year before the survey - and dangerous driving in the district.

Statistics New Zealand reveals in the five years to June 2004, 9000 migrants and 5100 babies arrived in the district. By 2021, the population of Rodney will have increased by an estimated 17,700 households and 39,000 people.

Accelerator Online Trading
Small businesses can join a pilot to increase their ability to trade online. The government is part funding the Accelerator Project, with $800,000 to encourage more businesses to use e-commerce to access global markets, running till October.. To enrol in Launchpad, businesses need to provide information about themselves and their experience in e-commerce and exporting

Saving time in the mire of red tape

Biz.org is a taxpayer-funded one stop shop which aims to help startups and small and medium sized enterprises and cut through red tape and access information. This free service is the site of a government focus on the two big questions businesses have about compliance - 'What do I have to do? and how do I do it?' It offeres online transaction facilities for transactions and forms offered by various governemnt departments eg registering for GST, or asking ACC to review levies and claims, and these online facilities will continue to grow.

Business Statistics from around
New Zealand

1) There was a 9.9% increase in number of businesses as at February 2004 compared with February 2003, according to Statistics NZ

2) There were 324,293 NZ businesses in February 2004. This is an increase of 9.9% from February 2003 following a 4.8% increase in previous year.

3) NZ businesses engaged 1.64 million employees in February 2004

4) 65% of businesses in NZ were non-employing. 45% of these non-employing businesses were involved in property and business services industry.

5) 96% of businesses engaged fewer than 20 employees. However, these businesses only accounted for 29% of the total number of employees in NZ

6) Les than 1% of enterprises in NZ had 100 or more employees. However, these businesses accounted of r47% of the total number of employees in NZ

7) Business numbers increased in all regional council areas in February 2004

8) 35% of business locations in NZ operated in Auckland in Feb 2-00-4. The number of businesses locations in Auckland increased by 10,881 in Feb 2004.

This information comes from Statistics NZ Business Frame. It excludes businesses engaged in farming, and generally excludes businesses whose GST turnover is less than$30,000 per year. The term 'business' includes enterprises which may be a company, partnership, trust, estate, incorporated society, producer board, local or central government organisation,

More Statistics for Rodney can be found at http://www2.stats.govt.nz/domino/external/web/
CommProfiles.nsf/FindInfobyArea/004-ta

News

Employment and Skills in the Rodney District
This research shows a snapshot of issues concerning employment demand in the Rodney District... more

Employers expected to contibute to Kiwisaver

Employers will be encouraged to voluntarilay contribute to workers' savings..more

Deprivation on the Hibiscus Coast?
If deprivation was measured in Celsius, the Hibiscus Coast would read positively cool, almost icy....more

Auckland Business Composition
Some stats regarding business in Auckland ...more

Business

Starting a Business in
Orewa ?
Call Mike Smith at the Rodney Economic Development Trust. The REDT is the welcome mat for new business in the Region. We are also a link between Biz NZ and Technlogy NZ and other business related organisations. There are some very good reasons why you should relocate and start a new business in Rodney...more

Links

WestSmart delivers free Enterprise Training to qualified business owners in Waitakere and Rodney districts. The New Zealand Trade and Enterprise (NZTE) Enterprise Training Programme (ETP) is aimed at upskilling the owners www.biz-rodney.co.nz

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