Iain Blakeley Email & Phone Number

New Zealand

New Zealand

Family Business New Zealand is for family businesses and families in business. The family business sector is critical to New Zealand's economy and social cohesiveness. Our purpose is to contribute to the long term success of family business. We do this by facilitating and engaging resources and channels that promote success and foster sustainability and longevity. Our programs and products are developed to build stronger families and healthier businesses.We provide access to specialist family, business and technical services and generate opportunities for families in business to learn and grow by networking and sharing with their peers. www.familybusiness.org.nzwww.familybusienss.org.au

New Zealand

New Zealand

Barrister, Director and Consultant specialising in tax, family enterprise governance and succession, helping start ups and entrepreneurial enterprises grow safely and VAT policy and implementation,

Auckland

Tax partner helping fast growing New Zealand businesses. As a Growth Accelerator and accredited Growth Navigator Super Coach at EY, I helped a wide range of New Zealand owned business. specialised in the middle market, GST, real estate sector, retirement villages, aged care providers and family owned businesses.My work included risk reviews and audits, improving systems and processes to lessen the cash and compliance burden of tax, obtaining refunds of overpaid tax from the Inland Revenue Department, transaction assistance, advising on business ownership strategies to optimally manage commercial, tax and other risks, help with tax authority investigations, advising on the tax implications of business expansion, establishment of family enterprise governance structures, advice on growing intergenerational entrepreneurial family businesses and family office management.As an accredited EYGN SuperCoach and Growth Accelerator I helped businesses identify how to accelerate their growth.

Head of EY New Zealand national GST/VAT specialist team and tax partner. Specialise in indirect tax advice, real estate taxation, government taxation issues, indirect tax policy.

New Zealand

Charitable body running programmes aimed at developing exceptional Kiwi kids. This national body runs golf educational programmes which focus on the core life skills and values required in the game of golf including honesty, integrity, sportsmanship, respect, confidence, responsibility, perseverance, courtesy and judgement.

Founder and tax lawyer

Established legal division of VAT unit, helped implement new VAT regime, drafted VAT and income tax legislation, head of VAT and Income tax legal services division, responsible for legal debt recovery and prosecutions, trained legal staff and prosecutors, drafted inbound investment legislation, drafted legislation establishing combined Inland Revenue and Customs statutory authority.

Litigation lawyer - specialising in media law, employment law, resource management, tax and administrative law

Administrative law and litigation focus. In tax, resource management and Waitangi Treaty groups.

Llb And Ba, Law, Politics, French

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Education record