NZ covid policy better for small businesses after initial shock

NZ covid policy better for small businesses after initial shock
Jenny Ruth
Data released by small business accounting software provider Xero suggests the New Zealand government's approach to fighting the coronavirus crisis has been largely better for its customers after a much harder initial shock than the Australian and British governments' policies.Anonymised data from Xero's customers show small businesses in NZ suffered considerably more of an initial hit to revenue than their counterparts in Australia and Britain as a result of each country's first lockdown measures to combat covid-19, but th...

More Finance

Budget 2024: tax relief on, surplus further off
Finance

Budget 2024: tax relief on, surplus further off

The package will be less generous than National’s election campaign promises.

Pattrick Smellie 27 Mar 2024
New Guardians of NZ Super CEO appointed
Finance

New Guardians of NZ Super CEO appointed

Townsend will be its first external CEO appointment since Adrian Orr in 2007.

Staff reporters 27 Mar 2024
Russia’s backdoor to the global banking system slamming shut
Finance

Russia’s backdoor to the global banking system slamming shut

Major Dubai lender has scaled back Moscow business, and Turks are now more cautious.