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Tax minimisation strategy sees billions shifted ahead of trustee tax hike

Trust-owned companies appear to have flushed out excess retained earnings to save on tax.

Budget 2024: All you need to know about the tax changes - Robyn Walker

OPINION: Has the Government delivered a block of cheese budget?

Jenée Tibshraeny: What to look out for in today's Budget

How Finance Minister Nicola Willis will try to recalibrate the Government's books.

OECD warns NZ Govt it shouldn’t borrow to pay for tax cuts

Organisation calls for a capital gains tax, better education and more competition.

Jenée Tibshraeny: Nuance needed right-sizing the public sector

What the numbers tell us about what happened to the public sector under Labour.

Nicola Willis on the state of the Government's finances

Willis has conceded she won’t be able to get the books back in shape quickly.

Jenée Tibshraeny: Nicola Willis' Budget preview a sobering reality check

OPINION: Delivery is always tough for the Government - even if the economy was stronger.

Willis concedes Govt books won't be back in shape quickly

Finance Minister avoids unveiling likely size of Budget 2024.

Audited version of Crown accounts sees size of deficit shrink

The Government's books were $9.4 billion in deficit over the past year.

Jenée Tibshraeny: Devil's in the detail of major parties' look-alike tax and spend plans

The major parties plan to reduce debt at a similar rate but at a cost to different groups.

The sledgehammer needed to smash unemployment and inflation

A lagging pain from the sting of central bank hikes could start to set in.

Treasury forecasts suggest we're going back to the future

OPINION: Our editorial on why productivity is the golden ticket out of this fiscal rut.

Former PM recalls how chaos, economic alarm spawned big pre-election event

'She and I got together and said: This should never happen again.'

Matthew Hooton: National’s tax plan is a cynical con job

OPINION: Savings must be used to repay our growing debt, not to buy off voters.

Thomas Coughlan: National’s $14.6b tax plan - does it add up?

OPINION: Does the National plan deliver - and do the sums make sense?

Debt blowout: Govt expected to borrow $35b more than planned eight months ago

Economists warn the next government won't have much cash to splash.