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The New Zealand tax system is so structured as to allow the country to be used as a tax haven. Specifically, it allows non-residents to use trusts established in New Zealand to avoid the tax they would otherwise have to pay in their home country. This article explains how this works, and asks...
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The literature on the Hong Kong Basic Law is considerable and a substantial part of it addresses the constraints on the Government’s taxing and spending powers. This article aims to add to it by making two main points. First, whilst the provisions in the Basic Law dealing with the SAR...
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In at least some respects, the pensions "problem" is a reflection of a country's profile and history. To set this paper in perspective, Table 1 shows New Zealand at a glance. It both explains New Zealand and summarises what this paper defines as the "New Zealand Way" (definitions on page 3)....
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In 2001, the government established the New Zealand Superannuation Fund. This is intended to partially pre-fund the future costs of New Zealand Superannuation, the universal Tier 1 pension payable to all New Zealanders over age 65. The incoming, National-led government suspended contributions in...
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The New Zealand tax system was until recently so structured as to allow foreigners to use the country as a tax haven. Specifically, it allowed them to use trusts established in New Zealand (referred to as “foreign trusts”) to avoid and evade the tax they would otherwise have had to pay in...
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The aim of this article is to point to a flaw in one of the measures recently enacted by the New Zealand Government to prevent tax avoidance by large multinational enterprises (MNEs). That measure is section GB 54 of the Income Tax Act 2007, which was added to the Act in July 2018 and which is...
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The OECD has for several years been laboriously attempting to reform the international tax system so as to rectify the gross under-taxation of heavily digitalized firms such as Google, Facebook and eBay. Progress has been slow, though, so a number of countries, including New Zealand, have...
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