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Brian Fallow: Time to clear regulatory muddle
Local government is where a lot of the governing people care about goes on.
Local government is where a lot of the governing people care about goes on.
Three years after Ireland's €67.5 billion financial rescue by the International Monetary Fund and the European Union, signs are the Emerald Isle is on the improve.
Beneficiary cheats face not just the wrath of the law but a public tongue-lashing from minister Paula Bennett as well, writes Brian Rudman.
IRD has this morning obtained freezing orders over property in a company directed by Paul Webb, a former Dragon's Den judge.
The IRD has been flooded by a last-minute rush of confessions from people who paid themselves artificially low salaries to avoid the top personal tax rate.
Alesco, whose tax-avoidance battle with Inland Revenue is seen as a test case for disputes involving more than $300 million, is trying to appeal to the Supreme Court.
When Gaylene Mackereth left her home in Howick on a trip to the beach with her granddaughter recently, she paid a bit more attention than usual to the houses they passed.
Editorial: Labour's revenue spokesman, David Cunliffe, was hardly ploughing new ground when he accused Apple, the world's biggest tech company, of failing to meet its tax obligations in New Zealand.
Expat Kiwis and jetsetting workers face higher taxes under a crackdown on residency rules.
A businessman is confident he can win a 20-year, $4 million legal battle with Inland Revenue.
Revenue Minister and United Future leader Peter Dunne suffered a second setback less than 24 hours after his carpark tax was dumped.
Less than 24 hours after Peter Dunne's carpark tax was dumped, his proposed "iPad tax"on work smartphones laptops and tablets is also now dead in the water.
The Government has confirmed it will not go ahead with plans to tax employer-supplied carparks in Auckland and Wellington.
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.
Revenue Minister Peter Dunne says his proposed tax on employer-provided carparks is about fairness and he questions why opponents have only now challenged the plan.
The only ones who will get pinged by carpark tax will be the workers. Because of that, Matt McCarten will turn up to a forum and hold hands with any boss.
The Government might reconsider plans to tax employers on inner-city carparks they provide to employees if it finds the additional costs on businesses would outweigh the revenue raised, Finance Minister Bill English said yesterday.
New Zealand's top advertising agencies have joined business groups and the Unite union in a campaign against the Government's proposal to tax employee carparks.
Kidicorp's CFO Bruce Woodward has been convicted of tax evasion and perjury, but is keeping his job at the daycare centre chain.
The Government really must be strapped for money, Brian Rudman. It's so short that to scrape in an extra $17 million or so of petty cash it's willing to break an election pledge and upset a group of core supporters.
New Zealand's largest health insurer is supporting a proposed tax change to make policy cover cheaper.
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.
International investors could be scared off by a Court of Appeal decision yesterday, say tax specialists.
An appeal in a landmark tax avoidance case has been thrown out this morning in what one commentator called a "complete slam dunk" for Inland Revenue.
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.