JIM GORDON FCA
POLICY MANAGER
POLICY ADVICE, INLAND REVENUE
Jim is responsible for a number of one-off projects across a broad spectrum of income tax issues. For example, he had responsibility for the recent company tax rate decrease amendments, the tax consequences of the new international accounting standards, including financial arrangements and emissions trading.
Amongst a variety of things, one of his current projects concerns livestock valuation for tax purposes. This is an area that he has over 25 years experience in. Another of his current projects is the SME dividend review. He has policy responsibility for natural disasters. The Canterbury earthquakes have taken up a lot of his time over the last nine months, and this work is ongoing.
He is also responsible for tax policy liaison with the New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants’ tax team and its tax advisory group, and with TINZ.
Jim has worked for the Policy Advice Division for 13 years. Prior to that he was a senior tax manager at Coopers and Lybrand. Before this he was at the Institute of Chartered Accountants as their first Tax Director.
Jim has been actively involved in tax education in New Zealand as an author of papers and a presenter at national and local conferences and has been involved in tax policy under various guises since he moved to Wellington in 1986.
