Inland Revenue is not ruling out the possibility of a cyber-attack after it wrongly sent emails to 47 people yesterday.

Beneficiary cheats face not just the wrath of the law but a public tongue-lashing from minister Paula Bennett as well, writes Brian Rudman.

IRD has this morning obtained freezing orders over property in a company directed by Paul Webb, a former Dragon's Den judge.

The IRD has been flooded by a last-minute rush of confessions from people who paid themselves artificially low salaries to avoid the top personal tax rate.

Alesco, whose tax-avoidance battle with Inland Revenue is seen as a test case for disputes involving more than $300 million, is trying to appeal to the Supreme Court.

Student loan holders will pay $11 more a week from today as the Government ramps up its repayment scheme.

Expat Kiwis and jetsetting workers face higher taxes under a crackdown on residency rules.

Taxpayers are being warned not to fall for hoax phone calls from fraudsters telling them they are eligible for unclaimed money or a tax refund.

Fathers paying child support are disappointed changes to New Zealand's child support system set to be in place by April 1 have been delayed a year.

Auckland firms that send engineers and construction staff to Christchurch for the rebuild have just learned their projects are going to be much more expensive.

Taxpayers who dodged the top personal tax rate by paying themselves artificially low salaries have until the end of this month to confess.

Landlords are crying poor and seeking financial assistance in the face of proposals to strengthen thousands of old buildings.

Confusion surrounds the ability of body corporates of leaky buildings to claim GST refunds, as the Inland Revenue seems reluctant to have its decisions in two leading cases stand as precedents.

At least 10 New Zealand fathers owe $1.3 million or more each in unpaid child support as the total national debt spirals into the billions with interest and penalties.

A former IRD employee has been sentenced to two years and five months in prison on dozens of fraud charges spanning nearly six years.

Editorial: When the Children's Commissioner set up an "expert advisory group on solutions to child poverty" this year, many New Zealanders will have cheered.

More than 80,000 sole parents, caring for 133,000 children, would get an extra $10 a week under a proposal to tackle child poverty.

A Bay of Islands businesswoman has been sentenced to home detention and community work, and ordered to pay $45,000 in reparation for failing to pay her taxes.

Featherston man who owes Inland Revenue more than $170,000 has been ordered to repay just a fraction of his debt.