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IPCNC 2026 Conference - Lights, Camera, Prevention!

Te Whanganui-a-Tara | Wellington rolls out the red carpet to celebrate innovation in Infection Prevention. The IPCNC con...
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Update for AS/NZS 5369:2024 Reprocessing of reusable medical devices and other devices in health and non-health related facilities

AS 5369:2023 underwent a process of amendment during 2025 to address inconsistencies identified in the original document...
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2025 Infection Prevention and Control Week - 19-25 October

Every year in October the international Infection Prevention and Control community showcase the importance of infection ...
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Education resources for infection prevention and control

Are you looking for education resources for infection prevention and control (IPC)? Access to IPC information and opport...
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2025 Budget Update

The Government delivered the 2025 Budget last month which had a strong focus on fiscal discipline, business investment a...
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IRD Mileage Rate

IRD has released the mileage rate for the 2024/2025 year.  The Tier 1 rate applies for the first 14,000 kilometres trave...
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ACC Update

ACC has advised they will start issuing invoices for employers and shareholder-employee accounts from July 2025, and sel...
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Meeting IPC standards for small office-based surgical facilities and primary care medical centres

Medical centres and small private surgical settings are the most frequented facilities providing healthcare in New Zeala...
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Meeting current Standards for Reprocessing and Sterilising Instruments

The Australian Standard - AS 5369:2023 Reprocessing of reusable medical devices and other devices in health and non-heal...
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Understanding ultrasonic cleaning

Cleaning is the most important part of any process that reprocesses medical instruments and equipment between patients. ...
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Celebrate World Hand Hygiene Day

The 5th May is the date to celebrate World Hand Hygiene Day as part of the World Health Organisation’s SAVE LIVES: Clean...
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Antimicrobial resistance – doing our part

The growing threat of bacteria resistant to modern medicine, has already reached alarming levels in many parts of the wo...
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Antibiotic resistant bacteria in Aotearoa New Zealand

It’s not only COVID-19 and flu that is an infectious issue this winter. One of the most concerning antibiotic-resistant ...
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Important Upcoming Tax Date

Please take note of this upcoming important tax date:Monday 8th May 2023 – Provisional tax instalment due for March bala...
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Payment of Taxes

If you are having trouble paying your tax bills by the due date, please contact us or IRD before the tax is due to come ...
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Property Interest Limitation Rules

Since 1 October 2021, there have been changes to the amount of interest that can be deducted against residential propert...
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GST Invoicing and Record Keeping Changes

The rules for GST invoicing and record keeping have changed as from 1 April 2023. The new requirements are designed to a...
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Important Upcoming Tax Dates

Please take note of the next upcoming important tax date:Monday 9th May 2022 – Provisional tax instalment due for March ...
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Business Expenses

Any expense that is claimed against your business income needs to be related to your business and not private in nature....
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New COVID-19 Support Payment

On 21 February 2022, the Government announced a new Covid-19 Support Payment. The payment will be $4,000 per business pl...
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Small Business Cashflow Loans Scheme Update

The two-year anniversary is fast approaching for those customers who drew down a Small Business Cashflow loan (SBCS) fro...
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Keeping Safe from other Germs this Summer

Coughs and coldsAlthough we see more coughs and colds during winter, other respiratory viruses are still around at this ...
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COVID-19 Vaccine Booster

The Pfizer vaccine is the primary vaccine being used in NZ for booster doses, regardless of the vaccine that was used fo...
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Planning for when you or your staff may be COVID-19 positive!

Just like being prepared for an earthquake, every business should have a plan if staff need to self-isolate in their own...
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Important Upcoming Tax Dates

Please take note of these upcoming important tax dates:Monday 17th January 2022 – Second provisional tax instalment for ...
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Wage Subsidies

This is a reminder that the eligibility for the wage subsidies changed in round 3 of the subsidies.To meet the eligibili...
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Resurgence Support Payments

There have been changes to the Resurgence Support Payment (RSP) criteria recently.  The amounts for the fifth round (ope...
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Small Business Cashflow Scheme (SBCS) Loan

Inland Revenue (IRD) was due this month to start contacting customers who took out Small Business Cashflow loans (SBCS) ...
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COVID-19 Variants and Vaccines

COVID-19 variantsCOVID-19 is caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, a new virus that emerged late 2019. Since the pandemic took...
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COVID-19 Pfizer Vaccine

All New Zealanders have been or will be offered a free COVID-19 vaccine. This is the next step that we as a nation, can ...
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World Hand Hygiene Day - 5th May 2021

Seconds save lives – clean your hands!May 5th is World Hand Hygiene Day. Every year on this day, healthcare workers and ...
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Tax Agent

As a Tax Agent, Vector Consulting has an ACC look-up account which enables us to check and update our clients' details. ...
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Key IRD Services unavailable late February 2021

From 5.00pm Friday 26 February until Monday 1 March 2021, myIR will be unavailable and the phone lines will be closed fo...
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Important Upcoming Tax Dates

Please take note of these upcoming important tax dates:Monday 1st March 2021 – GST returns and payments for those who ar...
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End of Financial Year Tasks

For most taxpayers 31 March is the end of the financial year – and this date is fast approaching.  To make the preparati...
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Covid-19 Resurgence Support

The Government has a number of support payments available to businesses affected by the resurgence of Covid-19.  These i...
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Low-value Asset Threshold for Depreciation - End Date Approaching

This is a reminder of changes the Government made to the threshold for claiming low-value assets in March 2020, in respo...
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Covid-19 Small Business Cashflow (Loan) Scheme - Latest Developments

We reported in November 2020 about changes to the Small Business Cashflow (Loan) Scheme (SBCS).  There are now further d...
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Important Upcoming Tax Dates

Please take note of these upcoming important tax dates:Friday 15th January 2021 – Second provisional tax instalment for ...
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Covid-19 Small Business Cashflow (Loan) Scheme - Extension

Earlier this month the Government announced that the Small Business Cashflow (loan) scheme (SBCS) has now been extended ...
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Low-value Asset Threshold for Depreciation

This is a reminder of changes the Government made to the threshold for claiming low-value assets at the start of the yea...
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ACC Invoices

We were advised by ACC that they will start sending out invoices for the 2020 year from October 2020.  These invoices ar...
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Skin Damage Due to Protective Mask Use

Skin damage caused by masks and eye protection includes reddened skin, sores, chaffing and bruising, particularly the to...
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Hand Skin Irritation

The frequent use of hand hygiene products such as soaps, paper towels, or alcohol-based hand rub can cause skin problems...
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COVID-19 Business Advisory Fund

The Government has allocated funding for professional advisory support to small and medium sized businesses during the g...
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Loss Carry Back Scheme

Businesses that are expecting to make a loss in either the 2020 or 2021 financial year are able to use that loss to offs...
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Small Business Cash Flow Loan (SBCL)

The Small Business Cash flow (Loan) Scheme (SBCS) has been introduced to support small to medium businesses (including s...
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Vector Consulting Continues to be open

To all our valued clients, As an established remote-working team for more than 12 years, Vector Consulting are continuin...
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Report into Research Project for Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) training in Australia

Healthcare Workers PPE training programs in Australia and New Zealand hospitals – a survey(Ruth Barratt, Professor Lyn G...
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Tips for safe Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) use with COVID-19

Understand the transmission routes of the virus: COVID-19 is primarily spread through direct contact with droplets from ...
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COVID-19 - What can you do to slow the spread of this virus?

COVID-19 (novel coronavirus) is now confirmed in New Zealand, and a COVID-19 alert system has been implemented which spe...
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COVID-19 Tax Proposals

On the 17th of March 2020 the Minister of Finance announced a business package containing proposed measures to support b...
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Other Interesting Updates

Student Loan Update - Upgrades to myIR will make it easier to keep track of your student loan from April 2020.  Student ...
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Important Upcoming Tax Dates

Please take note of these upcoming important tax dates:Tuesday 7th April 2020 – 2019 end-of-year income tax due – final ...
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myIR Secure Online Service with the Inland Revenue Department

All taxpayers can register for a myIR account with IRD.  This gives you a web logon and password allowing you to access ...
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Payments Made to the Inland Revenue Department

This is another reminder that from 1 March 2020, IRD will stop accepting payments by cheque.  IRD advises that the safes...
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End of Financial Year Tasks

For most taxpayers, 31 March is the end of the financial year – and this date is fast approaching.  To make the preparat...
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Standards for masks

Do you know if the healthcare mask you use is doing the job it is supposed to? Surgical and N95 /P2 respirator masks sho...
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Candida auris

Candida auris (C.auris) is a fungus from the same group of germs that cause thrush (Candida albicans) or sepsis in immun...
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Measles

New Zealand is experiencing its largest measles outbreak for decades with over 2000 new cases notified in 2019.  As heal...
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Bright-Line Property Rules

Changes to the bright-line property rules mean that if you are selling residential property you may need to pay income t...
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Donations Receipts Requirements

In our July 2019 newsletter we wrote about the ability to file donation receipts online during the year through your myI...
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Using Cheques to pay the Inland Revenue Department

As part of the Inland Revenue Department’s business transformation, from 1 March 2020 they will no longer be accepting p...
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Upcoming Tax Dates

With the Christmas holiday period fast approaching, please take note of the following upcoming tax dates:Wednesday 15th ...
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Upcoming Tax Payment/Return Due Dates

Now we have got over the flurry of tax payments due at the start of the tax year (terminal and provisional taxes due wit...
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Tax Agent Status

As Vector Consulting Ltd is a registered tax agent with the Inland Revenue Department (IRD), we are able to file your an...
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Business Expenses

Businesses get taxed on their income minus any business expenses and other deductions.  In order for a business to claim...
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ACC Invoices

We have been advised by ACC that they will start sending out invoices for the 2019 year from 9 July 2019.  You usually r...
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Claiming Tax Credits for Donations

Another change made to the Inland Revenue (IR) system is the way you can claim donation rebates.Previously, this was fil...
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New Inland Revenue Website/Prescribed Investor Tax Rate (PIR)

The new Inland Revenue (IR) website went live on 26 April 2019.  During the process around 20 million income tax records...
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Monitoring Infections in your Organisation

Surveillance for infections in healthcare organisations is both a requirement of standards and good clinical practice.Th...
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Sterilisation Standards

Are you meeting standards for reprocessing your surgical instruments and other reusable medical devices?There are two st...
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CPE Guidelines (Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae

In November 2018 the Ministry of Health published the first New Zealand Guidelines for the Infection Prevention & Contro...
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Tax Working Group Report

The Tax Working Group issued their final report last month outlining close to 100 specific recommendations across New Ze...
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End of Financial Year Tasks

For most taxpayers, 31 March is the end of the financial year - and this date is fast approaching!  To make the preparat...
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IRD Changes - Closedown & Payday Filing

Closedown:  Inland Revenue (IRD) is currently in the process of a business transformation.  In order for them to impleme...
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Important Upcoming Tax Dates

Please take note of these upcoming important tax dates:Tuesday 15th January 2019 – Second provisional tax instalment for...
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Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Regulations

Under the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism Act (AML/CFT Act), all accountants in New Zealand ...
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Home Office Claim

Inland Revenue (IRD) has introduced a new method of calculating expenses for claiming a portion of your home as an offic...
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Payday Filing

From 1 April 2019, all employers will need to file their PAYE information each payday rather than monthly.  You can move...
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