Archive for the ‘News’ Category

A good tax budget but a pity about FIF

Tuesday, June 8th, 2010

In a June 2008 I criticised the introduction of the foreign investment fund tax regime. At that time I said: “A good tax system is a simple one - right? Well all I can say is that someone forgot to tell the Government which has created a nightmare of complexity ...

My Summer of Code

Monday, March 15th, 2010

Hello there, my name is James Sullivan and I'm the newest addition to the Sharesight team. Since November, the team has hosted me as the Wellington Summer of Code intern. Last year I was a fourth year Software Engineering student studying a Bachelor of Information Technology at Victoria University of ...

Excel exports now available

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

Excel exports are now available on all of the pages under the reports menu - look for the new Excel icon (and also the new print icon) in the top right corner of the reports. The Excel sheets contain formulas to calculate totals where appropriate so this will make it ...

Remember me function improved

Thursday, October 29th, 2009

A big thank you to everyone who completed our recent customer survey. The survey results will help us to improve Sharesight for everybody and we really appreciate all of the great comments and suggestions. We have started on our list of improvements by fixing problems that many of you reported ...

Sharesight and Xero

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009

We are pleased to announce that Sharesight has become a certified Xero network partner. Xero is a market leading online accounting system. Sharesight has partnered with Xero in order to provide a seamless solution between portfolio management and portfolio accounting. Learn more about Xero at www.xero.com, free trial accounts are ...

NZ Shareholders Association AGM

Monday, July 20th, 2009

Sharesight is proud to be sponsoring the NZ Shareholders Association AGM this Friday 24 July at the James Cook Hotel in Wellington. The event will feature the following guest speakers: Morning Session: The Hon Bill English on Creating an Ownership Society. Bill is the Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Finance and Minister of ...

Calculating Share Returns

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

One of our most important objectives in setting up Sharesight was to give you the true return on your shares. One of the many shortcomings of the so called ‘free’ sites is that they fail miserably in this vital area. One of the reasons they fail is that providing you ...

FIF report now available!

Monday, June 16th, 2008

Today we are pleased to announce the release of our Foreign Investment Fund (FIF) report. If you invest in Australian shares, the report shows whether or not you are caught by the new FIF taxation rules. If you are, it will calculate your taxable FIF income. The first part ...

Foreign Investment Fund Taxpayers

Friday, June 6th, 2008

A good tax system is a simple one - right? Well all I can say is that someone forgot to tell the Government which has created a nightmare of complexity for FIF taxpayers. The Government was no doubt aided and abetted by its advisors who should surely have ...

Sold Shares Report

Monday, April 28th, 2008

In the latest Sharesight update we have put some finishing touches on the Sold Shares report which includes links back to the Share Details page for each share on the report. This is really handy if you need to edit historic dividend or trade details for a share that you ...

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