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Legal-highs empire under the hammer
The former empire of legal-highs godfather Matt Bowden is disintegrating - three of his properties, worth more than $5 million, are listed for mortgagee sale.
The former empire of legal-highs godfather Matt Bowden is disintegrating - three of his properties, worth more than $5 million, are listed for mortgagee sale.
The Government's submission to the "Re:think" tax white paper process under way in Australia highlights the lack of mutual recognition of imputation credits as the most significant barrier....
A television advertisement for a tax refund company has been found to have misled its customers into believing 90 per cent of Kiwis overpay their taxes.
The government is taxing the salaries of Kiwi troops deployed to Taji to help train Iraqi soldiers.
Tax specialist Iain Craig found a surprise upside to a cancer scare, even in his work.
Cruise ship travellers look likely to be charged a higher rate - possibly nearly $3 per person more - than others under a new levy imposed from January on all travellers arriving and leaving New Zealand.
Craig Elliffe writes: The officials' paper indicates an exemption will apply when you inherit a property from a deceased estate or have transferred as part of the property settlement.
Finance Minister Bill English has denied falling dairy prices pose a risk to New Zealand, saying the dairy industry is a smaller part of the economy than most people think.
The battle to bankrupt an octogenarian Auckland businessman over a $470 million tax bill continues as he argues Inland Revenue should accept his repayment offer.
Electricity retailer and generator Trustpower has lost the latest round of a $8.9m tax battle.
Lambs born after the airfreighting of 900 pregnant ewes to a businessman’s Saudi farm suffered an extremely high death rate, it has been claimed.
A bankrupt business trainer whose companies are in liquidation has been revealed as a taxpayer-funded envoy hired to teach the secret of success.
A small crowd of about 50 people have turned out at a public meeting in Auckland tonight to discuss looming rates increases.
The IRD has selected a US company as the preferred software supplier for its $1 billion-plus business transformation which will replace its ageing information technology system.
A taxpayer grant of $11 million to farm wagyu cattle will benefit an overseas businessman at the centre of the Saudi farm controversy.
John Russell has lost another IRD stoush, this time about a company which has been in receivership for 20 years.
Surging Auckland house prices would put New Zealand's lenders at risk if there was a significant downturn.
Auckland waterfront eatery Hammerheads collapsed last in April owing the taxman nearly $400,000, liquidators say.
The announcement of plans to impose an "Anti-Travel Tax" came at an unfortunate time for Transport Minister Simon Bridges, writes Grant Bradley.
There's a lot we just don't know about the Government's moves on tax and real estate, writes Brian Fallow. Trying to judge the likely impact on the Auckland market of the property taxation measure the Government announced on Sunday is one of those times.
Legal high company Stargate Operations is being chased by IRD for $850,000.
Data released by REINZ - median national sale prices - does support the Prime Minister’s statement that house prices rose during the previous Labour government.
Nearly one in five Auckland homes are sold within two years of being purchased, the Government has been told by officials.
Head of Auckland's biggest new housing precinct says people looking for short-term fix aren't welcome.
Agents have welcomed new measures to track foreigners buying property but say tougher moves on money laundering are needed.
Economists are divided over the likely impact on the Auckland property market of new tax moves to target speculators.
The Government's property speculator tax crackdown will lead to large-scale real estate dumping before its October 1 start and widespread evasion and avoidance, experts say.
Finance Minister Bill English says he does not know what effect the new rules on taxing capital gain on residential properties and new disclosure rules from non-resident buyers will have on the....
Property tax changes should make it easier to collect tax from foreign investors, say bank economists.