Government is set to clamp down on multinational companies avoiding paying tax.

Tax cuts for lower and middle-income earners are one of four key areas Finance Minister Steven Joyce is looking at for his first Budget in May.

New Zealand's tourism boom means it can be lucrative to rent out property but owners need to do their homework or could get stung.

The tax department has shut down its online payment service, contact centre and front of house service, causing problems for people.

Music streaming service Spotify has increased its prices by $2 a month due to a New Zealand tax introduced last year.

The IRD recently released information regarding income distributions of NZ individual taxpayers from 2007 to 2015 which makes interesting reading.

An Auckland businessman jailed for failing to pay his taxes knew his obligations, says IRD.

Breaking his campaign promise, Donald Trump will not be releasing his tax returns - so WikiLeaks said they will instead.

KiwiSavers could be missing out on higher returns because of the tax impact of their providers' offshore structures.

COMMENT: The art of dealing with Trump is to offer him a deal his ego can't refuse.

COMMENT: How to ensure you start 2017 off on the right foot with your taxes.

Apple's tax bill chronicles a growing clash between Europe, the US and a shift in the EU's approach to tax affairs.

A tax agent has been sentenced to four years imprisonment after stealing client money and filing false GST and income tax returns.

COMMENT: Some countries impose a diverted profits tax to counter concerns about unfair tax dodging by multinationals, Professor Craig Elliffe writes.

Support for the government's crack down on tax avoidance has been tempered with criticism the moves come too late and don't go far enough.

The Government must ensure every firm trading here pays its fair share for the stability and services they all enjoy.

Manchester United boss Jose Mourinho has been accused of using a New Zealand trust fund in the name of his wife to avoid paying tax.

The first policy of Gareth Morgan's new Opportunities Party has been released this morning.

Prime Minister John Key took on Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg about the company's tax reputation internationally - and Zuckerberg did not click "like".

Large companies need to "rebuild the trust of the public" by being more open about tax arrangements, the IRD says.

This guy was fed-up with paying tax, so he found a bit of empty land and created his own country. There's just one little problem.

Inland Revenue says it's in talks with foreign tax departments as it steps up efforts to recover money owed by overseas-based student loan borrowers.

Inland Revenue has launched a swathe of audits into the tax arrangements of international technology firms.

Move to cap deductions is delayed until next year at the earliest.

The chance to take the top job was 'too good to be true', Inland Revenue boss Naomi Ferguson tells Tamsyn Parker.

I've studied tax filings for decades. What I found most stunning about Trump's 1995 taxes isn't what everybody's talking about, writes Allan Sloan.

The Government is letting big corporates off their tax obligations lightly, the Green Party says.

Consumers are going to have to fork out extra for e-books, music, movies and television online.

Nearly three-quarters of New Zealand CEOs say multinational companies do not pay their fair share of tax.

COMMENT: New Zealand has an aversion to capital gains taxes. Or is it just the name?