The New Zealand Tax Podcast – tax policy changes around the world. A happy 40th birthday to Australia's Capital Gains Tax.

Inland Revenue is chasing overdue tax bills and has started phoning people to tell them “ignoring debt will only make things ...

Someone is going to have to pay to keep the country's finances in order while the population ages, but who and how need to be ...

While there are goods that are taxed at higher than 18%, the simplified GST rate structures have reduced the tax on a bulk of the eligible goods The new rates are likely to increase consumers’ ...

A long-running debate over how fund managers, including KiwiSaver providers, should deal with GST appears to have reached a conclusion with the release of an interpretation statement by Inland Revenue ...

Peter Drennan finds $3.7 bln in tax debt, money that should be circulating through government services like hospitals, schools & infrastructure but instead sits frozen in a standoff between struggling ...

The final two options to resolve the debt are to take money owed directly from bank accounts or start insolvency proceedings. Since mid-June Inland Revenue has sent out 16,500 notices about planned ...

Treasury has warned the retirement age and GST would need to gradually increase over the next 40 years, to solve New Zealand's fiscal challenges. Infometrics chief executive and economist Brad Olsen ...