YOUR ACCOUNTANT
Despite the government's promise of no new taxes in the Budget, the increase of the trust tax rate to 39 per cent did not come as a huge surprise.
With the release of the IRD report into high net wealth effective tax rates and talk of wealth taxes it was inevitable we would see some change.
I would say the top marginal rate for individuals at 39 per cent and the trust rate at 33 per cent was a ridiculous