Publisher Alister Taylor is being pursued through New Zealand courts for more than $50,000 owed in Australia.
The New South Wales Supreme Court has ordered Taylor to pay the money to the state's Commissioner for Fair Trading.
Now the commissioner has registered the case in the New ZealandHigh Court.
Taylor, whose last known address was in Swanson, west Auckland, has been involved in a wrangle with the NSW Department of Fair Trading for several years over a failure to deliver pre-paid copies of a publication called the Australian Roll of Honour.
It has compiled a list of more than 850 people around Australia seeking redress of up to $156,000.
In 2005, the commissioner filed injunction proceedings against Taylor. The Supreme Court found he engaged in "misleading or deceptive conduct" and granted injunctions banning him from marketing non-existing publications.
He has also fallen foul of New Zealand's Commerce Commission over other books.
Taylor has been a high-profile figure since the 1970s, when he put out books such as The Little Red Schoolbook and Tim Shadbolt's Bullshit and Jellybeans.
