Siblings John and Jane Smith's parents own their family home through a trust but John and Jane are the beneficiaries of that trust. John and Jane's parents sell the house. Are they liable for CGT?

Less than three weeks from the election, Labour leader David Cunliffe is out on a drizzly Sunday campaigning at Sikh temples in Auckland.

Labour's support among men has fallen to just 18.4 per cent in today's Herald-DigiPoll survey, taking a traditional gender gap in support for the party to a new low.

Shopping for socks and discussing his debating strategies, New Zealand First leader Winston Peters took his election campaign to Auckland’s St Lukes mall this afternoon.

On the anniversary of the first major quake to hit the Canterbury region, Labour has made a big push to overturn its election defeat in Christchurch three years ago.

John Key has stepped up his attack on Labour's capital gains today tax, suggesting it will create a headache for grieving children who inherit their parents' house.

John Key says the National Party had nothing to do with the shutting down of the @Whaledump Twitter account.

NZ First's Winston Peters wouldn't say who he'd prefer to be Prime Minister after the election during last night's debate - leaving Colin Craig gunning for him.

The next Government may take a seat at the United Nations Security Council and a spot at the centre of global politics merely weeks after the election.

National has unveiled $266 million worth of new policies including a $150 million boost to its rural broadband initiative in the past week.

The number of house sales are easing in Auckland, with some real estate agents citing uncertainty around the upcoming election as a key factor in the decline.

Are our politicians sleepwalking, asks Gordon McLauchlan, flabbergasted he's being told the Dirty Politics scandal is all just a distraction.

The emergence of former MP Ron Mark as a candidate for New Zealand First has potentially thrown the race for the Wairarapa seat wide open.

Federated Farmers is questioning the need for a National Party proposal for a compulsory ban on dairy cattle from all waterways.

Winston Peters harks back to a New Zealand of the 1950s and 1960s when everybody had a job and immigrants didn't take them. "We're not anti-immigration up here," he says. "Crikey! I'm half Scots."

With her Auckland ties, Annette Sykes says she could have easily stood in the Tamaki Makarau electorate.

Minor parties will almost certainly make up part of the next Government and the leaders are facing off over dinner tonight. Click here for the latest updates.

A new TV3 poll says either National or Labour could form a Government, but Labour would need the support of four other parties, while National needs just one.

Labour will not impose Capital Gains Tax on a family home and its spokesman has reiterated that firmly today in a video interview with the NZ Herald.

Do you want to know more about your political leaders and what they think but don’t have much time? Here you can watch the party leaders answer Fast Fire questions on a range of issues, talking down the barrel of the camera directly to you. (NZ First declined to take part). Today’s question is on the Treaty of Waitangi

Do you want to know more about your political leaders and what they think but don’t have much time? Here you can watch the party leaders answer Fast Fire questions on a range of issues, talking down the barrel of the camera directly to you. (NZ First declined to take part). Should the NZ flag be changed?

Do you want to know more about your political leaders and what they think but don’t have much time? Here you can watch the party leaders answer Fast Fire questions on a range of issues, talking down the barrel of the camera directly to you. (NZ First declined to take part). Today’s question is on GOD?

Do you want to know more about your political leaders and what they think but don’t have much time? Here you can watch the party leaders answer Fast Fire questions on a range of issues, talking down the barrel of the camera directly to you. (NZ First declined to take part). Today’s question is should their be a rise in the Superannuation age?

The hacker known as Rawshark has released emails that look to back up claims in the Dirty Politics book that the Whale Oil blog was used for commercial "hit" jobs.

Anne Gibson interviews Phil Twyford who is Labour’s spokesman on Auckland, housing, transport and associate spokesman on the environment.