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Tax Traders and Taxi appoint new board chair

Former Easy Crypto chair Caroline Williams has joined the board of local fintech firms Tax Traders and Taxi.

Fintech firm Taxi wins law change on borrowing against provisional tax, reveals numbers

Taxi, a fintech that lets small businesses borrow against their provisional tax balance, has won a key legislative clarification and revealed its lending numbers.

Progress won’t happen if we play it safe

It’s fair to say that starting 2024 with an unexpected, week-long hospital stay wasn’t on my vision board for the year. It was just four weeks before launching our new start-up, Taxi and I was left with constant head pain and a piratical eye patch that I had to wear so I could see at all (yes I got a lot of pirate jokes and no after the first 24 hours they weren’t funny). A less-than-ideal launch strategy to say the least.

Dynamic Business: A new cab off the finance rank

Taxi, a fintech start-up, uses provisional tax payments as security to offer business funding at rates far below traditional banks.

Tax Traders and Taxi take Best Places to Work crown

The winners of this year’s Best Places to Work awards have been announced. The overall title went to fintech companies Tax Traders and Taxi, both founded by husband-and-wife duo Josh and Nicola Taylor.

Tax, love and being the best place to work

“We’re ambitious fintech companies and we want to be the best at everything that we do, we’re constantly driving ourselves to be better and to learn,” says Nicola Taylor, the co-founder of fintech companies Tax Traders and Taxi, after being asked why they entered the Best Places to Work

Taxi lets small businesses borrow against their provisional tax

"There are 400,000 small businesses who are desperate for access to capital," says Nicola T...

Hail Taxi - the idea which can actually help small business cashflow

Anyone who owns or operates a small-to-medium enterprise (SME) in New Zealand will...

Workplaces should be a place of healing

Starting a business for the first time is no mean feat. Nor is managing a redundancy, goi...

Why can't we have a good work life balance and a good salary?

Studies have shown that workers are sacrificing their salary for a better work life balance...

Simplicity takes 19pc stake in Tax Traders

Fund manager Simplicity has broken new ground by taking a 19 percent stake in technol...

‘Seriously disruptive to the banks’: Sam Stubbs’ Simplicity takes 19 per cent stake in Taxi

KiwiSaver provider Simplicity has broken new ground by taking a 19 per cent stake in techno...

Taxi encourages Kiwis to decline the bank in new launch campaign

New locally owned FinTech start up Taxi has come out firing in its new launch campaign by...

How Taxi is getting the NZ economy moving

Taxi co-founder Nicola Taylor joins Simon to discuss the fintech startup's unique take on b...

Simplicity jumps onboard Taxi

Not-for-profit KiwiSaver provider Simplicity has taken an 18.8 percent stake in the parent...

Recent press releases

Taxi and Tax Traders appoint Caroline Williams as new Board Chair

Caroline Williams Appointed Board Chair of Taxi and Tax Traders

Caroline Williams joins as Board Chair to help drive the next phase of growth for New Zealand’s most innovative tax tech companies.

Best Places to Work

Taxi named New Zealand’s Best Place to Work

Taxi wins big at Best Places to Work Awards, exemplifying exceptional workplace culture and leadership in New Zealand.

‘Expensive, hard to get and often undignified’: Fintech CEO urges NZ banks to do better

‘Expensive, hard to get and often undignified’: Fintech CEO urges NZ banks to do better

As New Zealand’s next provisional tax deadline looms, fintech company Taxi offers SMEs a game-changing way to access funding.

Taxi encourages Kiwi to decline the bank

Taxi encourages Kiwi to decline the bank

Read more about our 'Decline the bank' launch campaign and the people who made it happen.