Harrison is a specialist tax lawyer with experience assisting clients with income tax and GST issues across a wide range of industries and transactions.
Harrison advises on all aspects of New Zealand tax law. He has a strong interest in assisting New Zealand and offshore clients with transactional and advisory tax matters, particularly with business structuring and reorganisations, mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, land transactions, and general corporate tax. He has experience advising clients on complex tax issues, including cross-border investments, binding rulings, tax disputes, and policy reform.
Harrison also has a strong interest in tax policy and is an active Committee Member of the Young International Fiscal Association Network (YIN) New Zealand. He is also an experienced not-for-profit board member.
Recent highlights
- Obtaining favourable binding rulings on the tax treatment of complex transactions from Inland Revenue.
- Advising Kāinga Ora on tax issues arising from their key role in delivering the Government’s priorities for housing and urban development in New Zealand and as New Zealand’s largest housing landlord.
- Undertaking tax due diligence and advising on the sale and purchase of businesses.
- Advising on tax issues arising in relation to various business structures, including trusts, companies, and limited partnerships.
- Advising on the structuring and taxation of employee share schemes.
Affiliations
- Committee Member of the Young International Fiscal Association Network (YIN) New Zealand.
- Member of Institute of Finance Professionals New Zealand Inc (INFINZ).
- Trustee of Aviva (incorporating Christchurch Women’s Refuge) Charitable Trust.
- Trustee of City of Christchurch International Marathon Trust.
