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Ring-fencing rental losses to cost property investors $190m a year

7 Dec 18, 2:33pm

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

5 comments

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

1 comment

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

31 comments

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

42 comments

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

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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

7 comments

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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Cryptocurrency investors reminded of their tax obligations

3 Apr 18, 11:22am

Guest

Cryptocurrencies are treated like property for tax purposes, the Inland Revenue Department says in new guidance
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Adams and IRD at odds over bright line test extension

15 Mar 18, 2:27pm

Jason Walls

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National’s new finance spokeswoman Amy Adams says the IRD “don’t support [the bright line test] going to five years” – but a spokesman for the department says her comments are “not strictly true”
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CBA changes key detail of capital notes issue after NZ Govt moves on hybrid mismatches

9 Mar 18, 3:55pm

Gareth Vaughan

ASB's parent Commonwealth Bank of Australia loses opportunity for 'certain tax deductions' in New Zealand from its PERLS capital notes issues
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Treasury, IRD highlight risks in extending bright-line test

6 Mar 18, 2:00pm

Jason Walls

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An impact statement from Treasury and the IRD has revealed compliance with the current 2-year bright-line test is below 50% and this is likely to continue when the test extends to five years
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This week's guest Top 10

2 Mar 18, 12:55pm

Terry Baucher

23 comments

Terry Baucher on Google, tractors, tax evasion, cashless society, taxing CO2 emissions, the Swiss cryptocurrency town, really big tax cuts, sugar tax, Nigeria's census & more
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A full Capital Gains Tax or nothing

22 Feb 18, 3:23pm

David Hargreaves

54 comments

David Hargreaves sees trouble ahead with the extension of the so-called 'bright line' test on property transactions
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Neither Treasury nor the IRD sold on extending the bright-line test

17 Feb 18, 9:07am

Jenée Tibshraeny

237 comments

Regulatory impact statement on extending the bright-line test reveals why the IRD would rather keep the current two-year test in place, while Treasury is up in the air on the matter
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What the IRD is (loosely) advising cryptocurrency investors to do

11 Jan 18, 2:06pm

Jenée Tibshraeny

41 comments

The IRD says people should consider money made selling cryptocurrencies - bought with the intention of resale - as taxable, until it releases specific guidance on the matter
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