The ministry is reviewing how it recovers the costs of its biosecurity and food safety systems across the country's primary industries, after under-recovering for several years.

The Inland Revenue Department is taking aim at the use of New Zealand trusts by foreigners to shield their income and assets from tax in their own countries following pressure from its overseas....

Tech giants like Apple keep looking for overseas tax loopholes as their foreign cash has piled up to almost absurd levels.

The US attempt to stop companies from leaving for tax reasons won't stop Pfizer, which is still considering a deal to move.

Voters in San Francisco will decide next month whether to tax sodas and other sugary drinks to reduce ailments including obesity and diabetes.

A courier driver who blamed a non-existent tax agent for mishandling his affairs has been ordered to pay $180,000 to Inland Revenue.

If the house always wins, then the taxman isn't far behind - at least not during the last year - when IRD won almost 85 per cent of the litigation it was involved in.

A loophole allowing MPs to hold millions of dollars worth of undisclosed real estate investments and other assets without declaring them has now been closed.

Terry Serepisos says he is "flabbergasted" after he was arrested and appeared in court because of child support for his 19-year-old son.

A Wellsford man who lied about having five children to receive $120,000 in tax credits has been jailed.

John Key has stepped up his attack on Labour's capital gains today tax, suggesting it will create a headache for grieving children who inherit their parents' house.

Tax is emerging as the battleground heading into the last two weeks before the election with National seizing on Labour leader David Cunliffe's stumble over the details of his flagship capital gains tax policy.

President Obama's denunciation of overseas mergers that lower US companies' taxes is throwing cold water on potential deals.

I joined KiwiSaver the day it started. I am in the Kiwi Wealth balanced fund. I am a 67-year-old retired widow with no other income apart from NZ Superannuation.

A look at some of the US firms that have incorporated overseas in moves that some say is robbing the US of billions of dollars in tax revenue.

The upshot of Novopay is this: we spent $110m to get a lemon from an Australian company - which is now being touted as a $15m 'asset', writes Dita De Boni.

More than six decades after it achieved independence, India may be on the verge of a single goods and services tax, after India's PM warmed to the idea.

Q: I was listening to the radio and I heard a Labour MP say that under Labour not only would KiwiSaver be compulsory but a capital gains tax would apply to it.

In a video interview on nzherald.co.nz, Eaqub said capital gains tax on investment property was often discussed in New Zealand as if it didn't exist - but it already does.

The Financial Services Council is looking to drum up popular support for a campaign to address what it says is the overtaxation of savings.

French tax hikes over the last three years and fiscal breaks provided by Portugal are driving rich French to seek homes in the Atlantic-hugging country.

The number of US companies reincorporating overseas has shot up considerably in recent decades.

Internet giants Apple, Google and Facebook will likely be targeted under plans for a crackdown on tax avoidance by big multinationals which Labour is set to announce today.

Medical device maker Medtronic, is poised to become the biggest firm to escape the US tax system by shifting its incorporation abroad.

Inland Revenue should accept a payment deal rather than bankrupt a 79-year-old accountant being chased over a $367 million debt, says an Auckland tax adviser.