Tax

Inland Revenue wrote off $694.5 million in tax debt due to companies engaging in phoenix activity, prompting proposals for stricter insolvency regulations in New Zealand.

New Zealand’s tax collection faces ongoing issues with tax debt write-offs. There are strategies from Germany and Australia to hold directors accountable and ensure fairness.

Labour’s tax plans are a troubling recipe for a misguided policy, combining contradictions, selective polling, economic fallacies, legal complexities, and political expediency, resulting in a disastrous outcome for New Zealand.

There are good reasons to be sceptical about the New Zealand’s Labour Party plan to remove GST from fresh fruit and vegetables,

Imagine your dues to government not as taxes. Just as payments with benefits. Bliss.

For the Greens’ long-term success, the party would be wise not to focus on its fringe supporters –which might just get the party over the 5 percent threshold – but instead on the centre of society which could make the Greens a mainstream force

If politicians could make companies more productive and innovative by decree, they would have done so a long time ago.

Bill Gates wants a tax on robots. But what about all the other things that have made us ever made more productive?