Contributors
CCH is proud to work with a distinguished portfolio of authors and consultants, who provide invaluable input to our books and subscription services.
Tax and accounting law
John Bassett
John Bassett (LLM) is a senior member of the Auckland Taxation Department at Bell Gully. He advises in all areas of taxation including, particularly, the income tax issues faced by public company clients. He has been involved in negotiating resolution of disputes with the Inland Revenue Department and in litigation at High Court and Court of Appeal level, including the widely cited Alcan case. He is a regular contributor to CCH New Zealand Income Tax Law and Practice and author of articles in CCH New Zealand Tax Planning Report.
Blackburn Croft & Co
Blackburn Croft & Co is New Zealand’s leading independent trade consultancy. Based in Auckland, the firm provides advice on a wide range of Customs and trade legal, regulatory and policy issues including Customs valuation, tariff classification, duty concessions, Rules of Origin, dumping subsidies and safeguards, Free Trade Agreements and Customs audits. The company services a wide range of clients including manufacturers in New Zealand and Australia, importers, trans-Tasman entities and multi-nationals. Work is undertaken in both the New Zealand and Australian jurisdictions, and assignments have been completed in a number of Asian countries and the Pacific Islands. The company has a particular expertise in the implementation of Trade Remedies legislation and policy, both in New Zealand and Australia, and has been involved in the majority of dumping investigations undertaken in New Zealand in recent years.
John Brown
John Brown LLB (VUW), Dip Fin Pl (Waikato), provides consultancy advice in the areas of trusts, asset planning and succession planning. He has 28 years’ experience in these fields and currently works in an advisory capacity with financial advisers, solicitors and accountants. He is also a frequent speaker at seminars for financial planning groups and insurance brokers. John is author of the CCH New Zealand Trusts and Asset Planning Guide and the New Zealand Master Trusts Guide.
David McLay
David McLay is a Wellington tax barrister with more than 23 years of specialist tax experience. He was a partner in Bell Gully from 1986 to 2003 and has been a barrister since 2003.
David's practice is focused on tax advice and disputes, as well as on trusts and charities. His tax advisory practice has involved advising on major acquisition, financing and property transactions, on various goods and services tax issues, and on the implications of new tax regimes and the rewrite of the Income Tax Act. He has also appeared as counsel in approximately 40 tax cases at all levels from the Privy Council to the Taxation Review Authority, as well as appearing before many Parliamentary Select Committees.
David holds LLB (Hons) and MCA degrees from Victoria University of Wellington, and a LLM from the University of Michigan.
He is the Consultant Editor for CCH's New Zealand Tax Planning Report. He has written many articles for tax law publications and has presented papers at conferences in New Zealand, Australia, USA and the United Kingdom.
Denham Martin
Denham Martin, LLM (Hons) (VUW), LLM (Virginia) is a barrister specialising in advising on all aspects of tax law. Formerly a tax and commercial law partner with Chapman Tripp, and principal of his own specialist tax law practice, Denham has had over 20 years helping clients with legal problems in New Zealand and Australia. He is a very experienced seminar presenter and has published extensively on technical tax, trust and commercial law issues both here and overseas.
Alastair McKenzie
Alastair McKenzie (BA, LLB (Hons)) operates New Zealand's only specialised GST practice. He has advised on the tax for over 13 years. Alastair is the author of the textbook GST — A Practical Guide (now in its sixth edition), is Consultant Editor of CCH New Zealand Goods and Services Tax Guide, has lectured part-time in the Master of Taxation Studies course at the University of Auckland (1994 to 2000) and was a columnist on GST for the Chartered Accountants Journal (1995 to 1999).
While Alastair has also written and presented on overseas GST regimes, his forté is providing practical advice on New Zealand GST.
Alastair is also a consultant on the CCH Q & A Service.
John Shewan
John Shewan is a tax partner with Price Waterhouse Coopers, specialising in corporate tax consultancy, particularly corporate reconstructions and international tax in the banking, insurance and electricity sectors. He is a former chairman of the Government’s Tax Education Office.
John has been with Price Waterhouse Coopers since 1978, and is currently Managing Partner of the Wellington office. He previously lectured in accountancy and tax at Victoria University of Wellington and is past chairman of the National Tax Committee of the New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants.
John is closely involved with the tax reform process in New Zealand, preparing submissions on tax bills and making presentations on tax policy. He is also well known as a media commentator on tax matters and has presented a number of conference papers.
Willy Sussman
Willy Sussman (B Iuris, LLB (South Africa), CA (New Zealand) is a partner in the Auckland Taxation Department at Bell Gully. Before joining the firm, Willy spent eight years in the taxation divisions of two major international accounting firms. He specialises in indirect taxation, especially GST and customs duty. He has been involved in the successful lobbying for changes to the GST legislation in New Zealand and has also been involved with the introduction of GST legislation in Australia and South Africa.
Stephen Tomlinson
Stephen Tomlinson (LLB (Hons), BCom) is one of the founding partners of Tomlinson Paull. Stephen's experience includes advising on tax-effective business structures and intellectual property transactions. He has lectured in taxation and securities law at the University of Canterbury. Stephen is a member of the Canterbury District Law Society Taxation Committee.
Stephen is also a consultant on the CCH Q & A Service.
Marilyn Hay, LLB (Auckland)
Marilyn Hay is a senior solicitor with the corporates sector of the Inland Revenue Department. Marilyn is a consultant editor of CCH New Zealand Duties Guide, CCH New Zealand Tax Cases, CCH New Zealand Income Tax Legislation and writes for the CCH New Zealand Goods and Services Tax Guide.
Julie Segedin
Julie Segedin is a Director with PricewaterhouseCoopers Hamilton's (formerly Beattie Rickman) tax practice. She provides taxation advice to the firm’s clients, local chartered accountants and corporate tax clients. Julie has been specialising in tax for 26 years, the last 14 in public practice, and prior to that was a senior investigator with the IRD. Julie is a contributor to the CCH New Zealand Master Tax Guide.
Carl Brandt
Carl is a Senior Manager with PricewaterhouseCoopers Hamilton's (formerly Beattie Rickman) tax practice. He has had extensive tax experience, with over 23 years at Inland Revenue in the technical and legal support area. Carl joined the firm in 2002. He is regularly sought out by other accountants for advice in relation to tax issues facing their clients. Carl is a contributor to the CCH New Zealand Master Tax Guide.
Sally-Jane Perkins
Sally-Jane Perkins, BBus CA (Australia) has worked as a consultant writer/editor for CCH Australia and CCH New Zealand for over 13 years, specialising in the areas of financial reporting and corporate law. Sally-Jane is the author and editor of the CCH New Zealand Financial Reporting Guide and the CCH Australian Accounts Preparation Manual. She is also the editor of the 2008/09 Australian Master Bookkeepers Guide. Sally-Jane is Assistant Manager Financial Services of Anglicare Canberra & Goulburn, a large non-profit community service provider in Australia.
Superannuation
Aon Consulting
Aon Consulting, a division of Aon New Zealand Limited, provides independent actuarial, financial and statistical advice, administration services for superannuation and employee benefit schemes, and advice on death, disablement and health insurances.
Aon Consulting has authored the CCH New Zealand Superannuation Guide since 2000.
Employment law
Kiely Thompson Caisley
Kiely Thompson Caisley is a boutique corporate law firm, widely recognised as having one of the leading employment law teams in New Zealand and winner of the CCH Employment Law category at the New Zealand Law Awards 2005. The firm advises a broad client base on a variety of strategic matters and all aspects of contentious, non-contentious and general advisory employment law.
Kiely Thompson Caisley is the author of Guide to Holidays and Leave and a regular contributor to New Zealand Employers Handbook.
Richard Rudman
Richard Rudman is a consultant, researcher and writer who specialises in human resources and employment relations. He has over 30 years experience as a consultant and contributor, and writes for CCH publications in both Australia and New Zealand.
He is the author of the annual New Zealand Employment Law Guide and the CCH Workforce Manager.