COMMENT: Receiving cash for work and not paying tax on it is a crime.

A Taradale businessman has been sentenced to nine months' home detention for multiple tax evasion offences, despite having reimbursed

The Government's crackdown on student loan borrowers in Australia has stepped up a notch.

A property developer's claims of an unfair tax trial have been thrown out by appeal judges.

Thirty three properties across Auckland are tied up in a $34m asset freeze - New Zealand's biggest such case.

Inland Revenue Department prosecuted fewer people in 2015 than the year before, but the value of the frauds was bigger.

John George Russell - accountant, former merchant banker, 81-year-old and some $500 million in debt to the IRD - is finally raising the white flag.

After months of maintaining his innocence ex-Heart of the City boss Alex Swney phoned his parents to say he was going to plead guilty to nearly $1.8m in tax evasion.

Companies could recover GST incurred during capital raisings, with the Inland Revenue Department signalling it may look into the tax system anomaly that prevents them from doing so.