People who have paid themselves artificially low salaries to avoid paying the top tax rate should take advantage of an offer to confess while they can, says an expert.

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.

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