Customer guidance for tax incentives
I work in the R&D Tax Incentive group guiding customers as they navigate the tax scheme for their business research and development. Success comes because our team are generalist R&D practitioners with skill in simplifying concepts, listening to the customer to learn where their issues really are, and how these can be addressed.
My background is in engineering and scientific research for the construction industry. I humorously call myself a ‘pretengineer’ as it’s been some years since I worked directly in research. However my work with BRANZ directly supported improving New Zealand’s building system performance. This helped transform the building and construction sector with primary research which fed into Government policy.
My customers are diverse, I talk to people across all sectors and I certainly admire anyone who's had the courage to start their own business. At times, this gives me great satisfaction when I can see we've genuinely helped the customer.