Compulsory KiwiSaver looks inevitable. We should vote on making employer contributions tax deductible – Richard Prebble
Winston Peters’ 1997 referendum on compulsory retirement savings was crushed by almost 92% to just over 8%. Labour…
Election 2026: Education, health, housing, tax – every major party policy so far
There is a lot of policy floating around out there, so we’ve had to make some judgments about…
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon eyes fuel excise, accommodation levy and banks for possible tax change
“What we’re not doing is going off bananas on a wealth tax or capital gains tax, which will…
Company director faces 17 fraud charges, said to owe money from Covid subsidy, tax and Callaghan Innovation
Court documents show MSD charged Bolot with offences they say he committed from April to September in 2020.…
Inside Economics: Why a bad Auckland economy drags the whole country down; plus, the beer tax debate heats up
Perhaps if we acknowledged that more, we’d cheer up and some of that positivity might cheer up Aucklanders…
Thousands could be overpaying inheritance tax on life insurance policies
Sue Allen, of Chester Rose Financial Planning, said: “The form being simple to fill in doesn’t mean the…
New Zealand beer excise: Why the beer tax is squeezing pubs – Dylan Firth
New Zealand is running the same experiment in reverse. The high relative cost of beer poured from a…
Election 2026: The Opportunity Party’s tax plan could lead to public service job losses, less money for Oranga Tamariki, leader Qiulae Wong says
Some of the savings will come from Oranga Tamariki, the Government department that protects vulnerable young children. Opportunity’s…
Opportunity forced to update tax policy documents to make spending cuts clearer
The Herald queried the figure, noting the combined departmental budgets of both agencies is significantly less than $3.8b…
Waikato businesses owe Inland Revenue more than $400m in unpaid tax
The construction industry has emerged as a particular concern, the department said, with active Waikato construction businesses owing…
Gurpreet Singh’s ex-wife rejects claims she diverted funds designed to pay Yasmine Holdings’ million-dollar tax bill
“He’s just trying to make me a scapegoat.” The woman said she had acrimoniously separated from Singh two…
Auckland mother-of-six Sasagi Rosalie Filoa sentenced to home detention for $190k Working for Families tax fraud
She didn’t, at any time, try to update Inland Revenue with the correct information. WFTC are payments providing…