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Fix Govt accounts? Here's your chance
An new interactive tool developed by a Victoria University professor in conjunction with Treasury lets people address the Government's long-term financial pressures.
An new interactive tool developed by a Victoria University professor in conjunction with Treasury lets people address the Government's long-term financial pressures.
The Government's willingness to bail out councils that break the law is angering the ratepayers who are paying the cost.
If GST was added to items bought on the internet, it wouldn't stop Esther Greatbanks from shopping online.
One of the country's main bicycle retailers says stores will go out of business unless the Government finds a way to charge GST on overseas online purchases.
Mastercard says credit card companies are "not set up" to collect tax on transactions and online shoppers could easily migrate to other payment platforms.
Customs Minister Maurice Williamson says it would be virtually impossible to charge GST on items being bought online, an idea currently being explored.
If John Key was genuine in his concern about being disadvantaged relative to property investors he could legislate to reduce the tax advantages, writes Brian Fallow.
Building products firm Alesco's tax-avoidance battle is heading to the Supreme Court but its chances of success are slim, says one adviser.
There is not much left of the Magna Carta. It has been steadily repealed over the past 800 years but clause 39 remains.
Given most of this food is high in sugar, fat and salt, it is another milestone on the march to our collective doom, writes Gareth Morgan and Geoff Simmons.
Inland Revenue's interpretation statement on tax avoidance has taken the best part of 10 years to finalise, writes Brian Fallow.
An accountant has been rapped over the knuckles and fined for helping family members with their tax returns without holding the necessary qualifications.
An attempt by an investor in the Trinity forestry scheme to set aside a nine-year-old tax avoidance ruling has been dismissed.
Prime Minister John Key says he does not believe the Government will be overly affected by MediaWorks going into receivership, despite disputes about its tax liabilities.
Inland Revenue is getting ready to clamp down on thousands of New Zealand residents who haven't been paying tax on withdrawals from their overseas superannuation schemes.
Two-thirds of NZ's richest people aren't paying the top personal tax rate, with increasingly complex overseas schemes and bank accounts being used to evade the taxman.
A subsidiary of Allied Farmers has been served with a liquidation notice from Inland Revenue for $4.2 million.
The IRD is investigating up to 500 people it believes may have given themselves artificially low salaries to avoid paying the top personal tax rate.