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Masala: From hot food, to frozen assets

Thirty three properties across Auckland are tied up in a $34m asset freeze - New Zealand's biggest such case.

Michael Hill's IRD challenge still alive

Editorial: Plenty worse tax dodgers than tradies

Crackdown on cash jobs is welcome, but IRD should not forget corporate big fish.

Tobacco taxes rise 10pc today

But increase has the Taxpayers' Union lashing out at the Government.

IRD cheats rip off nearly $11m

Inland Revenue Department prosecuted fewer people in 2015 than the year before, but the value of the frauds was bigger.

Sale of Hammerheads' assets falls short

The sale of Hammerheads Restaurant's assets won't cover all of what the collapsed eatery owes Inland Revenue, say liquidators.

IRD wants accountant banned as liquidator

Govt 4-month deficit smaller than predicted

The Government's operating deficit was smaller than predicted in the first four months of the 2016 financial year.

Does McDonald's deserve an EU tax break?

McDonald's may have unfairly exploited a pact with Luxembourg to avoid tax on hundreds of millions of euros in profits for more than half a decade.

NZ's super rich in taxman's sights

There are a number of super rich Kiwis who declare income of less than $70,000 a year.

Brian Gaynor: Auckland lacking apartments

One of the main differences between Auckland and the three major East Coast Australian cities is the huge number of apartments.

Childcare firms admit overbilling

Two home-based childcare businesses have been caught overcharging the Government for thousands of dollars of taxpayer subsidies.

Let's just give up on taxing big corporations

Why not cut out all the hypocritical noise about tax freeloaders and just declare big corporations' profits tax-free?

Andy Archer and David Snell: OECD poised to release new tax dodge rules

OECD will tomorrow release final recommendations on the biggest change to international tax rules since WWII.

$500m tax debt, and out of options

High Court has rejected the only proposal that stood between 80-year-old accountant and bankruptcy

Attempts to unravel Korean tax tangle

Inland Revenue cites international tax agreement as it refuses to hand over documents, judge is not persuaded that's a good reason to enforce secrecy.

Tax experts: proposed capital gains law unfair

Absent tax evader convicted

A former Dunedin lawyer who did not turn up for her trial has been found guilty on all 46 charges of tax evasion involving more than $180,000.