Most of those who seek to reduce their tax obligations are net contributors to our society, writes Damien Grant. The only complaints against them are they do not pay enough.

The chances of GST being applied to all overseas web-based retail purchases appear more distant after the Govt changed tack on a review into tax of online shopping.

Name suppression has been lifted on a Wellington accountant found guilty of providing false tax returns and misleading information to the Inland Revenue.

The Christmas holiday break is a great time to take stock, regroup and think about the shape of your business for the year ahead. Tax risk management should form a part of those reflections.

Editorial: If the IRD is known for unilateral and unexplained actions against its targets, Customs inhabits a peculiar twilight zone at the border.

Inland Revenue is starting to "overreach" by using "extraordinary actions" - such as freezing orders - in tax cases that are quite routine, says an academic.

A High Court judge has rebuked the IRD, calling its application to freeze $462,000 in the bank account of a Rotorua woman "misleading".

Bauer Media is planning to ease Metro magazine away from current affairs when it gets the Listener in its stable.

New powers allowing welfare officials to secretly approach beneficiaries' banks or workplaces if they suspected them of committing fraud are being questioned.

An accountant has been struck off for scamming Inland Revenue out of $280,000 by doctoring his employer's tax returns to gain false donation rebates.

The Inland Revenue Department's $21 billion-a-year PAYE system will be the first part of NZ's tax system to be overhauled, says Revenue Minister Todd McClay.

A Wellington businessman has been sentenced to three years and six months in prison for his part in an aggressive tax evasion scheme.

The Inland Revenue Department has clawed back more than $18 million from people who paid themselves artificially low salaries.

The amount fines and reparations owed has dropped to the lowest level in almost a decade.

Churches have become corporate onshore tax havens which are subsidised by taxpayers so that the religious can pursue the supernatural, writes Max Wallace and Robert Nola.

Inland Revenue says the conviction of three businessmen for tax evasion today shows there are consequences when the rules are broken deliberately.

At least one retailer in Devonport is blaming the downturn in her business on British immigrants.

A woman who was owed more than $10,000 has warned others with unclaimed money about "fraudsters" offering to help with getting it back for a substantial fee.

The Government says the almost $30 million it has paid out to consultants doing initial work on the IRD's massive IT upgrade or "business transformation" is money well spent.