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How tax avoidance hurts the poor
High profile companies and boards have lobbied for decades for favourable tax benefits, now it's hurting the poor and could destroy capitalism altogether.
High profile companies and boards have lobbied for decades for favourable tax benefits, now it's hurting the poor and could destroy capitalism altogether.
COMMENT: Just like Australia, New Zealand has rampant property prices, and our tax system allows negative gearing.
Properties linked to the Masala restaurant empire, restrained under the country's biggest ever asset seizure, have been pulled from mortgagee sale.
Inland Revenue says the latest telephone phishing scam is unusual because it's still generating 200 complaints a day.
The Government wants to lower the threshold on online purchases, but says more work is needed beforehand.
IRD yet to decide if it will oppose a bid from Graeme Hart's auto parts business to have its US bankruptcy protection recognised here.
A High Court judge has thrown out a defence put up by two Masala restaurant bosses to a liquidators' claim.
The Prime Minister was too quick to declare his confidence in this country's treatment of foreign trusts following the "Panama papers".
New Zealand is not a tax haven, says the man who reviewed the country's foreign trust regime in the wake of the Panama Papers document dump.
COMMENT: Tax - it's about doing the right thing, writes Spark managing director Simon Moutter.
New research suggests welfare fraudsters face a tougher time than tax evaders, even though tax evasion costs taxpayers three times more.
Tribeca Homes collapsed last May, leaving dozens of Auckland home-builders in the lurch.
The long-planned information technology project aims to completely overhaul the country's taxation system.
The Government's "boring" Budget could pave the way for National to take big tax cuts to next year's election, Prime Minister John Key says.
Liam Dann writes the 2016 Budget is the greens before the treats, but Bill English has delivered his promise of boring and stable.
The average Kiwi tax refund has increased 23 per cent over the past three years, research has found.
COMMENT: It's time for Bill English to announce a crackdown on multinational tax avoidance in New Zealand.
For New Zealanders, two things would have stood out in the Australian Government's Budget, handed down earlier in the month by first time Treasurer Scott Morrison.
We should be reducing debt faster while the good times last, not talking about tax cuts.
COMMENT: The Panama Papers big reveal proved better in prospect than reality.
COMMENT: Everyone should contribute a fair share of their wealth to the upkeep of the public services and well being of the country they choose to live in.
COMMENT: It is not often that the big surprise in a Budget is something that will not be in it at all.
COMMENT: Foreign trusts don't come without a cost, writes Rachel Smallley. Don't kid yourself by thinking no-one loses from this. Millions lose. If people don't pay tax, economies suffer.
COMMENT: There's an old political saying that knowledge is power and for once John Key didn't have the knowledge leaving a group of journalists with the power, writes Barry Soper.