Latest from Budget 2010

$30m more for tourism in Budget

Goff Budget would reverse tax cut for top earners

Big players welcome R&D move

AgResearch boss calls for compulsory super

NZ heading in the wrong direction - Goff

Labour's leader launches an attack on next week's Govt budget, accusing it of creating an unfair NZ which is increasingly lagging behind Australia.

NZ earners' tax burden second-lowest in OECD

The average NZ earner's total tax burden is second-lowest in the OECD, according to a new report.

Budget axe hangs over flu experts

<i>Editorial</i>: R&D tap needs to give more than a trickle

<i>Fran O'Sullivan</i>: Greece is the word - Time for Govt to act

If the crisis enveloping Greece has taught us anything it is that there is little time to lose in putting our own fiscal house in order.

Confidence in housing market weakens

Whanau Ora to receive $134.3 million

Families-based social services initiative Whanau Ora will receive $134.3 million in funding over the next four years, Prime Minister John Key announced today.

House buyers may be holding off until Budget

<i>John Roughan</i>: This Budget should be the big one

Building consents fall in March

Don't be fooled by GST hike sales boom, says bank

Businesses have been warned not to misread any pre-GST tax hike sales boom.

Extra $1.8b for education and health in Budget

Bill English says $1.8bn of "low quality" spending will be redirected education, health and law and order in next month's Budget.

Budget gloom lifts but challenges remain

Shoppers face GST price-rise rort

Consumers face price increases beyond the likely 2.5 per cent rise in GST later this year, small businesses say.