The New Zealand Income Tax Amendment Act 1989 completed the reform of the New Zealand laws on the taxation of superannuation schemes. The object was to bring the taxation of superannuation schemes into line with the taxation of other forms of saving. The Act introduces the specified...

In the latter half of the 1980s the tax climate in Australia and New Zealand changed markedly. While throughout the world there were major tax reforms, the changes in Australasia were more fundamental, and both structural and radical. Major changes that were adopted in one or both of the two...