Whether you run your own business or want tax work in an accounts team, this is a place to start. You learn income and deductions, GST, depreciation, company tax and how to prepare a return.
Run a small business or a side hustle? You learn GST returns, deductions, depreciation and how company tax works. The yearly scramble turns into something you can do yourself.
Already in accounts or bookkeeping? Tax is the next step up. You cover return preparation, fringe benefit tax and company structures, then the career centre helps with your CV.
It is online and self paced, with no exams and no fixed class times. You get six months of access, so you can take it in the quiet weeks and pause in the busy ones.
Tax work sits in accounting firms, business services teams and the finance side of larger companies. The work is easy to picture: pulling the figures together, preparing the returns and getting them filed on time.
Working across returns and compliance for a firm or a business. The fundamentals modules are the base of it.
Preparing and processing returns. Calculation and return preparation is a module of its own here.
Handling GST for a business or its clients. Understanding GST is covered directly in the course.
Where payroll meets tax. Employment law, payroll and fringe benefit tax all sit in this course.
Supporting a company tax team, where knowing how structures are taxed matters from day one.
Roles where these skills are useful, not promised outcomes. Every role is different, and some ask for accounting qualifications or experience.
Ten modules, from the first tax fundamentals through to company structures and deductions.
Here is what stands out in this course.
Three modules on tax fundamentals: the introduction, income and deductions, then calculation and return preparation. You end up able to build a return.
Understanding GST, depreciation and fringe benefit tax each get their own module. These are the ones that catch people out every year.
Modules on company taxation and look through companies. You learn how the structure a business sits in changes what it pays.
Maximising tax deductions gets its own module at the end, so you know what a business can claim and what it cannot.
Certificate of Achievement · The Career Academy
Awarded when you finish the course, ready to go on your CV.
You gain 50 Continuing Professional Development hours on completion, so the study counts on your record.
Over 50 titles from CCH Wolters Kluwer, including New Zealand taxation law and GST guides.
Send an enquiry and a course advisor gets back to you with the course guide and straight answers on whether it fits.
Start anytime. Pay on a flexible weekly plan, or pay upfront in one payment.
Work through the ten modules online, with unlimited tutor support by phone and email in business hours.
Complete the course and receive your Certificate of Achievement, with CPD credits on your record.
None. It opens with tax fundamentals and builds from there, so you can come to it cold.
From $29 a week on a flexible payment plan, with no deposit and no credit check. You can also pay upfront in one payment. Enquire for the full options.
Around 140 hours at your own pace, with 6 months of access. There are no fixed class times, so it fits around work and family.
Plenty of people take it for their own business. You learn GST, deductions, depreciation and company tax, which is the same ground whether you are doing it for an employer or for yourself.
It gives you what the entry level tax jobs run on: returns, GST, fringe benefit tax and company taxation. It is not a national qualification, and some firms ask for accounting study on top. What you walk away with is a working grip on New Zealand tax and 50 CPD hours on your record.
There are none, ever. You are assessed on what you understand, with tutor support behind you.
It is accredited by ICOES and the CPD Standards Office, which is accreditation for professional development. It is not NZQA accredited, so it is not a national qualification. That is a different thing. For tax work, what counts is whether you can prepare the return, and that is what this covers.
Yes. There is a 10-day money back guarantee. If it is not right, you get your money back.
This course is delivered by The Career Academy, an online course provider in New Zealand.
The college has been running for over 15 years and works with more than 25,000 students a year. Courses are online and self paced, with unlimited tutor support by phone and email in business hours. Career coaching opens as soon as you enrol, including CV help and a LinkedIn profile review.
Picture the first tax return you prepare yourself, and knowing exactly what every line on it means.