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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.

‘Severe consequences’: IRD warns businesses over use of illegal tools

The warning follows raids in Australia, the US and UK.

The Detail: Record tax take, lower than expected deficit - What's on the table for tax cuts?

How do current tax rules favour the wealthy, and who wants cuts?

'Don't be caught like we were' - parents snared in tax trap after helping daughter

'It never occurred to us we would be liable for tax' - father of family caught.

Companies dodge $400m tax by paying owners $9.4b earnings

Shareholders avoided as much as $400m in tax by getting $9.4 billion in dividends in 2021.

$18.7m cigarette smuggling case: Businesswoman jailed, millions in assets forfeited

More than 19 million smokes were unlawfully shipped from China over four years.

'Bank of mum and dad' caught by tax trap: National MP decries brightline catch

'It has hit many Kiwis who aren't speculators' - MP Andrew Bayly.

'Horrendous compliance': Experts slam new IRD rules for bach owners

If the rules stand, they could create "horrendous" compliance requirements, says expert.

Hamish Rutherford: Do the rich only get richer?

IRD study is looking into how the rich get rich, but excludes some who have got poorer.

Lawyers slam 'intrusive' new Inland Revenue power

Law Society wrote scathing letter to Attorney General about rushed tax law change.

'I may be forced to sell 85 Auckland rentals': Ockham boss

Tax changes will "accidentally smother the build to rent sector" - Ockham's Mark Todd