Is taxation ethical and fair?
When is it ethical to levy a tax and what are the ethics of seeking to minimise, let alone trying to avoid, your tax obligations?...
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Why accountants need insurance
As data-matching grows more powerful every year, the right insurance can safeguard professionals against the increased risk of audits and stronger government scrutiny of clients...
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Three priorities for NZs Tax Working Group
The NZ Tax Working Group’s interim report sets out a full workload before the February deadline for a final report...
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Bitcoin bonanza – or tax-time headache?
Investing in cryptocurrencies, even by SMSFs, is now more common, with up to half a million taxpayers actively in the market last year. But tax authorities are warning they will track down crypto...
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New Zealand's Budget 2017 must ease growing pains
Three key issues that Finance Minister Steven Joyce needs to address when he hands down New Zealand’s Budget 2017 on May 25...
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The strangest excuses for not paying your tax on time
Each year people fail to pay their tax on time. We asked the Australian Tax Office and New Zealand’s Inland Revenue for some of the strangest excuses they have received...
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Facial share and the beard tax
A beard tax? Not by the hairs of our chinny chin chins says the Beard Liberation Front...
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Inland Revenue: 2016 report card and 2017 plans
What Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand’s members thought of New Zealand’s Inland Revenue service in 2016 and what can be expected in 2017...
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The global mess of free trade agreements
Winners and losers in the spaghetti-like global mess of free trade agreements...
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Australian GST reform debate heats up
Australia can learn a lot from New Zealand’s GST reforms but there are no easy fixes...
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UK complicates OECD's plans to stop corporate tax dodgers
The OECD’s plan to put a stop to multinational tax dodges appears to have been hit by friendly fire...
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Measuring Australia's GST gap
Tax gap estimates track the performance and integrity of the tax system – but how accurate is it?...