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Policy
New top tax rate left open to avoidance, tax department warns
Leaving the trust tax rate lower than the new top personal tax rate risks raising less revenue than estimated and adding significant costs for taxpayers.
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China hits back at New Zealand
China takes aim at NZ after Prime Minister Ardern raised concerns about 'unfactual post' targeting Australian soldiers.
Politics
Pattrick Smellie: Softening up for capital gains tax in all but name
Call it what you like, the bright-line test is already a capital gains tax, and appears to be the government's best hope of looking as if it's doing something quickly about the house price boom.
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NZ treads carefully as Aussie, China trade blows
As host of APEC for the next year, can NZ help soothe the growing tensions between Canberra and Beijing?
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Pattrick Smellie
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Pattrick was judged New Zealand's best overall columnist and business columnist of the year at the Voyager 2021 Media Awards. He has more than 35 years’ experience reporting and working in New Zealand politics and the commercial sector. A former Press Gallery chairman, he is an award-winning journalist and has worked for titles including The Dominion, The Press, Sunday Star-Times and National Business Review. He was the first NZ correspondent for The Australian and co-founded BusinessDesk in 2008.
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