About us

We’re excited to train the next generation of accountants and help them have the best tax knowledge possible.

Who we are

SvS Tax offers self-paced, online courses to accounting practices in the SME market in NZ.   SVS Tax is principally a tax consulting practice.  Lessons learnt are then turned into informative and practical tax training solutions for SME accountants.
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Our purpose

We would like to teach you how to understand NZ's tax rules.  You then do not have to remember difficult section references or read and decipher complex legislation, as you will have a gut feel about whether things make sense or not.  We invite knowledgeable speakers on various topics to join us to create tax training of the highest standards.  We make extensive use of the white board to explain complex abstract concepts in a simple, easy to understand, way.
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Meet our team

Sybrand van Schalkwyk, CA (PP), LLM(hons), LLB(hons), BCom, ADIT
Sybrand is an expert tax adviser with over 25 years of accounting, law and taxation experience. He holds a Bachelor and Master of Laws with Honours, a Bachelor in Commerce and an Advanced Diploma In International Tax and is a member of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand.

Sybrand started his career with a big four accounting firm in Auckland in 2000. He went on to work as a senior policy analyst at the IRD, being a junior member of the team that designed the portfolio FIF and Portfolio Investment Entity (“PIE”) rules, and serving as a member of the international tax team for three years.

Since then he has amassed a wealth of experience, working in both law firms and accounting firms. He has international experience having worked for a big four accounting firm in Jersey, Channel Islands, and more recently has significant local experience working for a pre-eminent Tauranga mid-tier accounting firm for the past 10 years, with the last four years as the Tax Director.

Sybrand founded SVS Tax with the aim of providing expert, quality, and independent tax advice to clients: individuals, small and medium sized enterprises, high net worth families, and accounting and law firms.  He also runs this training website in his spare time when he is not out enjoying activities with his wife and three young boys.

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