Money Mail 257 - Liquidation: How Some Businesses Delete IRD Debt Without Paying

I read an article recently about a company who owed over half a million dollars to the IRD and was now unable to pay. I checked the companies office, which is a register of all companies in NZ, and this company has been put into liquidation by one of the shareholders. Days later the same shareholders and directors had a new company under a different name and that would start with $0 in tax owing to the IRD. Say what? How dos this work? Let's find out.Hey thanks for listening! Please take some form of action from this content, don’t just be a consumer, become a producer! Make sure you’re subscribed to Money Mail via Keepthechange.co.nz to receive our weekly lesson on money and financial literacy. Stay close to us on social media and share this with someone that you think this content will help. Together we can collectively improve the financial literacy of New Zealand - let’s get on with it. Find us here:@keepthechange_nzhttps://www.keepthechange.co.nz/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.