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Heiress seeks 50 strangers to give away $44 million

New York Times: It sounds like a textbook scam. For once, it isn't.

National and Act at loggerheads over key tax policies

Nicola Willis is getting advice on blending National's and Act's income tax policies.

Rob Campbell: Self-serving managers and scared civil servants need an overhaul

OPINION: The left is often wrongly too defensive of poor performance - and I'm a leftist.

Gaming the system? Teens among highest earning beneficiaries of trusts - IRD

Data confirms trustees tend to use their children to minimise their tax bills.

Are trustees using charities to avoid paying tax?

An accountant is cautioning against jumping the gun, saying IRD needs more data.

National will still need NZ First to form government, Westpac economist predicts

More spending cuts could be needed to get a coalition agreement across the line.

How much income tax you'd pay under different parties' policies

We crunch the numbers.

National's tax cuts could push interest rates up, Goldman Sachs warns

Analysts are wary National might struggle to offset the stimulatory impact of tax cuts.

National gets its wires crossed on the tax treatment of new builds

Nicola Willis confirms how National would treat new builds under the bright-line test.

IRD guidance on trust tax tweaked over concern it was promoting tax avoidance

Murkiness remains around trust tax issues.

IRD guidance on the trustee tax looks a bit like tax avoidance - experts

Accountants advise caution around minimising trustee tax bill.

Google NZ pays $870m fee to US parent, books $78m local revenue

Facebook NZ follows same trajectory.

Opinion: Reputational stench could linger around PwC Australia for some time

The scandal currently engulfing the "Big Four" accounting firm has a long way to run.

Simon Wilson: Tax avoidance is the ram-raiding of the uber-rich

What's behind the opposition to a fairer tax system?

Sasha Borrisenko: How IRD was empowered to research the rich

Is passing law under urgency curtailing due process?

Tax specialists warn over intricacies of capital gains tax

A broad capital gains tax may go some way to address the imbalances in the tax system.

Taxman starts clawing back Covid millions

An Avondale brewer is one of hundreds facing demands to repay Covid support payments.

Capital Gains Tax: Why it failed - and could it rise from the dead?

A CGT might be politically unpopular, but experts believe the idea still has merit.