Most of those who seek to reduce their tax obligations are net contributors to our society, writes Damien Grant. The only complaints against them are they do not pay enough.

Name suppression has been lifted on a Wellington accountant found guilty of providing false tax returns and misleading information to the Inland Revenue.

Editorial: Tax avoidance is an easy populist button for parties of the centre-left but Labour appears to be doing some serious research of the subject.

Labour says it will tackle "aggressive tax avoidance" by multinationals such as Facebook and Google which it says is costing the taxman hundreds of millions of dollars.

The amount of lost tax revenue from "under-the-table" activity is likely to be roughly the same size as the 2013 Govt deficit, writes Thomas Pippos.

The Christmas holiday break is a great time to take stock, regroup and think about the shape of your business for the year ahead. Tax risk management should form a part of those reflections.

A High Court judge has rebuked the IRD, calling its application to freeze $462,000 in the bank account of a Rotorua woman "misleading".

A Wellington businessman has been sentenced to three years and six months in prison for his part in an aggressive tax evasion scheme.

It's time to make Google, Apple and other multinational companies pay more taxes, say G20 leaders.

A former restaurant owner found guilty of illegally claiming nearly $380,000 is sentenced to 10 months home detention and a reparation order of $7500.

The Inland Revenue Department has clawed back more than $18 million from people who paid themselves artificially low salaries.

New Zealanders who have money saved in Australian superannuation schemes should think carefully before choosing to bring their money home, says a financial adviser.

Inland Revenue says the conviction of three businessmen for tax evasion today shows there are consequences when the rules are broken deliberately.

One of the country's main bicycle retailers says stores will go out of business unless the Government finds a way to charge GST on overseas online purchases.

NZ's current tax system doesn't stack up as either fair or efficient because it doesn't tax the full benefits provided by housing and other types of wealth, writes Gareth Morgan.

An accountant has been rapped over the knuckles and fined for helping family members with their tax returns without holding the necessary qualifications.

An attempt by an investor in the Trinity forestry scheme to set aside a nine-year-old tax avoidance ruling has been dismissed.

Two groups of investors in the Trinity forestry scheme, found to be a tax avoidance arrangement in 2004, are making fresh attempts to get the 9-year-old decision set aside.

A subsidiary of Allied Farmers has been served with a liquidation notice from Inland Revenue for $4.2 million.

IRD has this morning obtained freezing orders over property in a company directed by Paul Webb, a former Dragon's Den judge.