Personal Finance news
Inland Revenue raises capital gains tax questions
The department has been addressing whether the country needs a new form of tax.
McMillionaires: The McDonald's franchisee power list
Seven entities own more than 20 of the 180 outlets. We name them.
Opinion: The Warehouse faces scrutiny amid financial results this week
OPINION: The Warehouse's upcoming results may reveal struggles amid weak consumer demand.
'Kick in the guts': Outrage after rubbish bin graveyard found on Auckland Council lot
The controversial cost-saving plan promised to save ratepayers millions.
Are airfares really getting cheaper?
Air NZ's boss says they are – here's what's going on.
Helping Dad to walk: Engineer joins deep-tech 'big brains' to follow a dream
Some of the best Kiwi brains are behind deep-tech technology that will startle the world.
KiwiSaver news
The $200,000 mistake thousands of KiwiSavers made
Conservative KiwiSaver funds have returned an average 4.1% a year over 10 years.
Opinion: The Warehouse faces scrutiny amid financial results this week
OPINION: The Warehouse's upcoming results may reveal struggles amid weak consumer demand.
Catheter unchanged for four months: Patient suffers life-threatening complications
The home care company, Nurse Maude, has been told to apologise and make changes.
Interest rates news
'Double whammy': OCR cut delivers mortgage relief but potential job losses dampen mood
Interest rates are now expected to drop steeply into the new year.
Mary Holm: How to split your mortgage when refixing
OPINION: With interest rates on the way down, what should you do?
Investment news
First look inside $200m 118-shop outlet centre Mānawa Bay: major crime deterrent features
'What we have achieved is phenomenal.' - Airport retail boss Lucy Thomas on leasing centre
New airport mall 'more popular than we thought it was going to be'
'Main priority was getting people to the terminals. That was prioritised at all times.'
Opinion: The Warehouse faces scrutiny amid financial results this week
OPINION: The Warehouse's upcoming results may reveal struggles amid weak consumer demand.
Tax news
Inland Revenue raises capital gains tax questions
The department has been addressing whether the country needs a new form of tax.
‘Time has arrived’ for capital gains tax, says ANZ boss Antonia Watson
Watson made clear she was opposed to any tax on unrealised gains.
Ryan Bridge: Taxing times — let's start with sugar to feed the Beehive monster
OPINION: Tax is like a cancer eating away at your hard work.
Business news
Market close: NZ stocks end day lower; leading stocks take dive
Falling inflation couldn't perk up the sharemarket.
Liam Dann: What today’s inflation fall means for interest rates
New inflation data may clear a path for more aggressive interest rate cuts.
More personal finance news
'Every day is cancer': Blair Tickner on his wife's fight, and what he and his team are doing to help
'She is doing well, but she doesn’t like me saying ‘well’, because every day is cancer.'
Should we tip hospo staff in New Zealand?
Some restaurant owners and staff believed it was time Kiwis were a bit more generous.
Hazard mapping has ‘chilling effect’ on property market
Residents say proposed controversial maps 'essentially rendered our property uninsurable'.
Letters: Company tax loophole must be closed now
OPINION: 'Sanitarium... should pay tax, just as all struggling people and companies do.'
Japanese Ambassador met Govt to discuss energy crisis impact on investment
Japan's Ambassador warned high prices were squeezing big investors.
Is a ‘rich pricks’ attitude stopping NZ fixing inequality?
New Zealand is a society unwilling or unable to speak candidly about wealth.
Developer walks away from iconic Wellington site
Despite years of searching, no tenant has been found for Oriental Bay's Band Rotunda.
Bedroom swelter: Too hot upstairs in new Auckland terraces, apartments
Free-standing fans, airconditioning units, ceiling fans and heat pumps go into bedrooms.
Fourteen-level apartment block under $46m leak repairs
An owner of a two-bedroom unit wanted only $179,000: faced a massive $446,000 repair bill.