Support for capital gains tax
A capital gains tax would reduce the price it is rational for an investor to pay for a property by as much as 23 per cent, Westpac economists say.
A capital gains tax would reduce the price it is rational for an investor to pay for a property by as much as 23 per cent, Westpac economists say.
Swiss voters have overwhelmingly rejected a proposal that would have introduced the world's highest minimum wage, early results from a referendum indicate.
Climate change is a mega-trend that will affect countries creditworthiness, and New Zealands worse than most, says Standard & Poors.
Editorial: Facts are required to establish whether the level of overseas ownership is so high that it is having a substantial impact on the housing market,
What is life like without a job for six months? It is a struggle, those at the coalface say.
Award-winning American author, professor and researcher David L. Blustein is visiting Auckland this month and he has a few things he wants to say to New Zealanders about the meaning of work in people's lives.
Welcome to my regular column entitled "My Light Bulb Moment". This series highlights a "blinding flash of insight" business, cultural and sports leaders have had in their career, and how this changed their lives forever.
If we ripped up the wage floor, would pay for low-skill workers actually fall all that much? It's hard to say.
Join us at 12.00pm today and put your Budget 2014 questions to KPMG's Head of Tax, Paul Dunne.
Aspiring first-home buyers looking for a leg-up into the property market in yesterday's Budget had little to cheer about.
Start-ups pouring money into research and development will get a cash-flow boost under a tax measure that is seen as a "great response" to the sector's challenges.
Editorial: The Budget manages the election-year trick of appearing both fiscally responsible and socially generous.
New Zealanders will welcome the family focus of today's Budget, Prime Minister John Key says.
Finance Minister Bill English has defended today’s modest Budget measure to trim the cost of new homes as one step in a larger programme to improve home affordability.
A data visualisation of where the Budget money is going.
With today's Budget expected to herald a return to surpluses - skinny next year but plumper in the following years - it is time to start thinking about what to do with them, writes Brian Fallow.
PM John Key said one of the choices that today's Budget surplus would present was the possibility his party could promise tax cuts in the election campaign.
The Reserve Bank is indicating the removal of restrictions on high loan-to-value home loans may be gradual rather than a now-you-see-it, now-you-don't affair.
Giant listed landlord Goodman Property Trust pushed up annual after-tax profit 72.1 per cent, making $134.1 million in the year to March 31.
The Reserve Bank's restrictions on low deposit mortgage lending took more borrowing out of the system than expected.
The Australian Govt will today start selling one of the nation's most unpalatable Budgets in decade after an axe was taken to almost every area of spending.
ANZ says its Truckometer indicator is still pointing to an economy trucking along at a solid clip.
Studies show that diversity is a good thing in the workplace - it brings better ideas, more creativity and freshness into a business, it also helps organisations understand and work in different markets.
The Housing Minister has revealed that Government held data on the proportion of NZ homes owned by offshore buyers, which he says is very low compared to other countries.
New Zealand food prices rose in April, snapping two declines, as eggs and dairy products lifted grocery bills in the month.
A union body leading prosecutions over the deaths of forestry workers has applauded a coroner for tackling the problem, which it described as unsustainable and intolerable.
Two British health researchers are gearing up to challenge New Zealanders' unusually high tolerance of what many countries consider a social evil - inequality.
The number of house sales fell 20 per cent last month, with sales declining across all regions, but prices continue to rise, latest figures show.