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High Court rules in favour of IRD against Eric Watson's Cullen Group

12 Mar 19, 5:20pm

admin

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IRD wins 'tax avoidance' case against Eric Watson's Cullen Group over $52 million tax debt
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The Taxman and Robin rerun show

9 Mar 19, 10:18am

Andrew Coleman

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Andrew Coleman on how the Tax Working Group produced a report that anything but looks to 'The Future of Tax'
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Robertson: Cullen is responsible for the tone of his comments

7 Mar 19, 4:09pm

Jenée Tibshraeny

103 comments

Finance Minister Grant Robertson says it isn't unreasonable to pay Michael Cullen up to $1062 a day to spend the next four months defending the integrity of the TWG report
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Cullen on a mission to defend the TWG report as his contract is extended

6 Mar 19, 5:03pm

Jenée Tibshraeny

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Tax Working Group Chair kept on the job for 4 months longer than initially planned; Michael Cullen says he's there to bat for the integrity of the report not the Government
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Panama among new countries IRD can get tax information from

5 Mar 19, 5:48pm

Jenée Tibshraeny

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IRD to share information with larger pool of jurisdictions to help crack down on tax evaders; More data not expected to bring in more tax revenue until IRD ups its capabilities
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Complexity of politics at risk of overshadowing complexity of tax reform

26 Feb 19, 10:08am

Jenée Tibshraeny

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Where would a watered-down, politically palatable version of the Tax Working Group's recommendations leave us? Jenée Tibshraeny struggles to find the modelling
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Govt plans to tax Facebook, Uber, YouTube, etc... at rate of 2% or 3%

18 Feb 19, 5:42pm

Jenée Tibshraeny

44 comments

Government expects to earn up to $80 million a year by taxing multinationals that provide digital services in NZ but don't pay income tax here
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Associate Finance Minister sets out case for capital gains tax

12 Feb 19, 8:29pm

Jenée Tibshraeny

75 comments

James Shaw goes in to bat for a capital gains tax during parliamentary debate; Amy Adams doesn't miss the opportunity to hit back
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Investors to benefit from proposed clarification of bright-line test rules

24 Jan 19, 12:15pm

Jenée Tibshraeny

20 comments

IRD proposes tweaking the law to clarify when the bright-line test clock starts ticking for land bought off the plans and land converted from leasehold to freehold
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Ring-fencing rental losses to cost property investors $190m a year

7 Dec 18, 2:33pm

Jenée Tibshraeny

132 comments

The IRD can't say for certain how ring-fencing rental losses will affect the residential property market, but notes investors suffering losses on their rentals are currently getting tax breaks of $2000 a year
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Can do better – the state of Inland Revenue

9 Nov 18, 9:39am

Terry Baucher

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Terry Baucher wades through a series recent IRD reports and concludes the taxman has room to improve
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Tax challenge from beyond the grave

19 Oct 18, 1:19pm

Denise McNabb

Long time scourge of the Inland Revenue Department, John George Russell, is not letting his death get in the way of continuing to cause the IRD grief
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Proposed new GST rules to level playing field between retailers

18 Oct 18, 10:06am

Jenée Tibshraeny

30 comments

Govt proposes law change to require overseas retailers selling goods to New Zealanders online to start paying GST; Change won't necessarily cost online shoppers more
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How you could be under or over-taxed without knowing it

13 Sep 18, 5:09pm

Jenée Tibshraeny

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A PSA on PIRs: Check you're paying the right amount of tax on your KiwiSaver, especially if your income's changed recently
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Should we be able to invest with more than one KiwiSaver scheme?

3 Aug 18, 10:06am

Jenée Tibshraeny

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Diversification is key to investing, but we can only invest our KiwiSaver with one scheme. Jenée Tibshraeny explores whether the system is due for a tweak
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4000 MBIE and IRD staff to strike

25 Jun 18, 3:31pm

Jason Walls

36 comments

MBIE & IRD staff to strike next month, with nurses also striking and primary teachers mulling possible industrial action in August
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'Reinforced concrete limited partnerships in NZ' for sale

20 Jun 18, 5:06pm

Gareth Vaughan

New Zealand limited partnerships, in combination with Nevis limited liability companies, being peddled as 'one of the best and unique products' in the murky world of offshore finance
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The man with a $500 mln personal tax debt

9 Jun 18, 11:02am

Denise McNabb

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Death and Taxes: Denise McNabb takes a look at John George Russell, the man who made the IRD’s job a living nightmare
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Why cryptocurrency investors need their own tax regime

10 May 18, 2:57pm

Henry Chueh

4 comments

An argument for why cryptocurrency traders can't be treated the same as property investors by the IRD
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Taxing tax avoidance

21 Apr 18, 10:00am

Guest

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Ewen McCann discusses a new approach to taxation - allowing tax avoidance practices to continue but taxing the pecuniary gains that they generate
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