Tax Refund News
Cash giveaway coming next week!
With a new tax year looming, and the bulk of MyTax.co.nz customers getting ready to apply for a 2012 refund, our team have agreed that it would be apt to host a competition through our popular Facebook page to celebrate. We’ve asked our Facebook fan base and have listened to the people – it’s looking like a cash giveaway is what they want! Now the task will be how much cash can we squeeze out of the boss for it…….stay tuned, we are hoping for a great result! Details will be up soon.
Relay For Life
Members of the MyTax.co.nz tax refund team are partaking in the Nelson ‘Relay For Life’ fundraiser - a celebration and awareness raising event for cancer survivors, their carers, whānau and friends.
We are hoping to have a great time, with lots of fun, laughs and hard work to raise as much as we can for our cause. We hope to either see you down there, or to meet you on our fundraising travels between now & the day itself. Read more about the Nelson Relay event here.
The tax grass is greener……In Aotearoa
The NZ Herald reported today in this article about a new book by Professor Rob Salmond, on the International comparability of our top tax rates against other OECD countries. Professor Salmond outlines that our top tax bracket of 33% is lower than all other 27 countries in the OECD, and makes note that our GST system is one of the most comprehensive in the world.
It makes interesting reading, and outlines the large cuts in top personal tax rates that New Zealand has experienced in the last two decades and the applicability of GST across income brackets. See the article for more information on Professor Salmond’s tax book and its findings.
Exciting Stats
Some analysis of our refund stat’s for the last week, has revealed that our mytax.co.nz customers enjoy an average tax refund of $516.45.
With over $300,000 in confirmed tax refunds heading out last week, we certainly made many tax paying kiwi’s very happy!
Customer audio – ‘You’re joking’
You have to check out the excitement in this customers voice – as she gets the news of her big tax refund. Check out our homepage or Click here to apply for your tax refund.
(This client gave us full permission to use this)
Its calls like these that always makes our refund agents smile!
Welcome to 2012
MyTax.co.nz would like to take this opportunity to welcome all our past & present clients to 2012, and with our staff brimming with summer stories and sunburn, we advise all our clients that our office is back to normality.
With 2012 being the year of coming promise & predicitons, and with MyTax.co.nz being totally devoid of any prediction ability of note, we thought it would be wise to share with you our predictions for 2012.
1) There will be a large sporting event during the year, centered somewhere around London
2) The Myan calender will end in December, but the world will not
3) The financial year, however, will end on 31 march, 2012
Knowing the end of the 2011 financial year is so close, it is definitely wise to now think about sorting your tax position quickly and safely with Mytax.co.nz. Also be sure to advise your family & friends, as they may be due a refund and have no idea about their overpaid tax – it could be their biggest story of 2012!
MyTax.co.nz – find us on Google+
We have just set up & launched our Google+ page. You can find our business page here.
Add us to your circles and follow our page for updates, company news, bonus deals and giveaway contests in the near future.
Fly Buys Bonus Time
In addition to our great offer of 10 bonus Fly Buys points on sign up, we are also please to announce that if you sign up, and get a tax refund with MyTax.co.nz, you will get another additional 10 Bonus points during December! What a great month to get a tax refund, start now.
MyTax.co.nz Facebook Top Xmas Tree contest!
As a treat to our customers before xmas, we are running a new contest on our facebook page, with some excellent – and timely – prizes up for grabs! Leveraging the Christmas spirit, we opted to let people share their wonderful xmas trees with us and by doing so, entering the draw to win one of three great prizes: 
- An Air NZ travel gift card, valued at $500
- A Briscoes homewares voucher worth $200
- MTA fuel vouchers to the value of $100
Its super easy to enter – you just need to visit our facebook page and click ‘Photo Contest’ and upload your photo of your tree, and start sharing it with your friends, who can vote for you and help you claim that top prize! You don’t need to be a MyTax.co.nz tax refund customer to enter, so be sure to get your mates involved also and share the xmas love.
Beware of email tax refund scams
Today’s global world sometimes has bad sides, and lately there has been an increase in overseas email scammers targeting New Zealand computer users with what are known as ‘phishing scams’.
These scams are basically someone posing as the likes of IRD, or perhaps a tax refund agency, in order to garner personal details from you. You need to be acutely aware of emails you recieve as some scammers are very clever and hard to pick!
We have prepared a list of the best ways to recognise a scam, and delete that rubbish asap. This will hopefully help you to stay a little bit safer online.
Some of the top 6 ways we know an email is a scam, include:
1) Bad spelling! Scammers are very often from non-english speaking countries – so look for bad grammer or english.
2) The IRD does not send emails with hyperlinks in them. Delete anything from the ‘IRD’ imposer with hyperlinks in the text, and dont click the links.
3) Over-promising subject lines. ‘Great refund news!’ or ‘Your large refund is waiting’ is a tempting line, but often signals a scam in waiting. Similarly, emails with refund amounts on the first contact, should be canned. No agent has authority to check your refund amount, before you grant them permission.
4) Check the senders email address. It should end in an appropriate, valid NZ company web address. Something like ird.newzealand@gmail.com or tax.refunds.4.nz@yahoo.com is highly suspicious and should not be opened. Be aware however, that many scams do ‘fake’ the senders address to counter this, so look deeper even if the sender address seems OK at first.
5) Emails that look like complete web pages that you might know & trust, are designed to scam you. If the email exactly replicates say, the IRD or your tax agents website, it is designed to make you trust it. However, be cautious and trash it if you suspect fraud.
6) Scammers will always encourage you to contact through links, websites or email. They will often never have a phone number or address included, as they don’t have one. If in doubt, google the organisation ‘emailing’ you and ring their phone number to confirm with actual staff if the email is genuine or not. Many tax agents have 0800 numbers for you to freecall.
