More than 5300 benefits costing $56 million a year have been cut off due to an information sharing arrangement between government departments.

Bauer Media is planning to ease Metro magazine away from current affairs when it gets the Listener in its stable.

New powers allowing welfare officials to secretly approach beneficiaries' banks or workplaces if they suspected them of committing fraud are being questioned.

An accountant has been struck off for scamming Inland Revenue out of $280,000 by doctoring his employer's tax returns to gain false donation rebates.

The Inland Revenue Department's $21 billion-a-year PAYE system will be the first part of NZ's tax system to be overhauled, says Revenue Minister Todd McClay.

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

Inland Revenue not legally obliged to notify companies when they no longer need to pay into KiwiSaver.

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

The amount fines and reparations owed has dropped to the lowest level in almost a decade.

Churches have become corporate onshore tax havens which are subsidised by taxpayers so that the religious can pursue the supernatural, writes Max Wallace and Robert Nola.

At least one retailer in Devonport is blaming the downturn in her business on British immigrants.

A woman who was owed more than $10,000 has warned others with unclaimed money about "fraudsters" offering to help with getting it back for a substantial fee.

The Government says the almost $30 million it has paid out to consultants doing initial work on the IRD's massive IT upgrade or "business transformation" is money well spent.

Building products firm Alesco's tax-avoidance battle is heading to the Supreme Court but its chances of success are slim, says one adviser.

Alesco, whose tax-avoidance battle is seen as a test case for disputes involving more than $300 million, has won the right to appeal its case to the Supreme Court.

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

Labour will be watching the government "like a hawk" over MediaWorks tax dispute because of past treatment for the media company which owns TV3 and RadioLive.

KordaMentha, the receivers for MediaWorks, could hand over control to a new firm by the end of next month, according to insiders.

Prime Minister John Key says he does not believe the Government will be overly affected by MediaWorks going into receivership, despite disputes about its tax liabilities.

Inland Revenue is getting ready to clamp down on thousands of New Zealand residents who haven't been paying tax on withdrawals from their overseas superannuation schemes.