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.

Industry veterans rely on selling their expertise, not hardware or software.

Taxpayers who paid themselves artificially low salaries to avoid the top tax rate are being given longer to confess.

Revenue Minister Peter Dunne is dismissing a suggestion New Zealand is a tax haven after criticism over his "legitimate tax avoidance" comments.

Government departments which have spent millions in laying off staff are responsible for nearly $1 billion in consultants' fees and $114.1 million in redundancies.