Puku Ora Eatery in Gisborne.
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A school lunch provider that went into liquidation at the end of January owes Inland Revenue more than $600,000, a liquidators’ report reveals.
Gisborne-based Puku Ora has four business lines, liquidators McDonald Vague said: Catering services, provision of school lunches under a government contract, the Puku Ora Eatery and the manufacture and sale of bone broth.
But the liquidators said in their first report that the business had built up significant tax arrears, which resulted in Inland Revenue serving it with winding up proceedings in January.
Directors said the company failure had been caused by the revenue hit of Covid-19 and Cyclone Gabrielle, and the changes…
