The Week In Tax

Jan 30 2025 255 ep. 18 mins 18
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Tax changes how business and people live and work. Each week we discuss tax news and how it affects you. Tax is an important policy lever for Government and cross-border tax for global corporations is an issue for Tax and Fairness.

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New digital nomad visa introduced, potential big change for US citizens living abroad & latest IR consultation

Jan 30 2025 13 mins  
The Government announces a new Digital Nomads visa but will it make any difference to the existing tax treatment? Potentially big changes afoot for US citizens tax resident outside the US and the latest Inland Revenue consultation on depreciation.

Trump withdraws America from the OECD Two-Pillar proposal, IRD gets tough with parents

Jan 24 2025 25 mins  
President Trump sets the tone for the tax year by withdrawing America from the OECD Two-Pillar international tax proposal and fires a warning shot about retaliatory tax proposals. Meanwhile is the recent increase to the International Visitor's Levy a harbinger of things to come? Inland Revenue's crackdown on parents receiving overpayments of working for families credits.

Year end special - proposed changes to FIF regime and a look back at the highlights in tax in 2024

Dec 16 2024 23 mins  
Inland Revenue releases an issues paper on addressing the problems the foreign investment fund regime presents for migrants and US citizens and we look back at the year in tax

Tax changes for charities proposed, more feedback on IRD's long-term insights briefing & an interesting Technical Decision Summary on cryptoassets

Dec 05 2024 18 mins  
This week the Minister of Finance reveals that changes to the tax treatment of charities will be announced in next year’s Budget, more feedback on Inland Revenue’s proposed long-term insights briefing and are cryptoassets held in offshore exchanges covered by the transitional resident’s exemption?

Latest from OECD on international information exchanges and on Inland Revenue's proposed long-term insights briefing

Nov 28 2024 20 mins  
2024 peer review update from the OECD on the Automatic Exchange of Financial Account Information and how Inland Revenue is using that data Inland Revenue releases feedback on the scope of its next long-term insights briefing together with a summary of the submissions we received. What has Roger Douglas got to say? More on last week's podcast with guest Andrew Paynter

Tax Policy Charitable Trust Scholarship co-winner Andrew Paynter on his proposal to increase GST to 17.5% with a credit for low income

Nov 21 2024 27 mins  
My guest this week is Andrew Paynter, a policy advisor at Inland Revenue and co-winner with Matthew Seddon of this year's Tax Policy Charitable Trust Scholarship. The Tax Policy Charitable Trust was established by Tax Management New Zealand and its founder Ian Kuperus to encourage future tax policy leaders and support leading tax policy thinking in Aotearoa. Andrew’s proposal

Government's tax and social policy work programme, IRD crackdown on Student Loan debt and more

Nov 14 2024 22 mins  
This week, the Government’s tax and social policy work programme is announced, more on Inland Revenue’s crackdown on Student Loan debt, and why we might need to pay more tax

2024-11-11 Week in tax - a review of Inland Revenue's 2024 Annual Report

Nov 10 2024 29 mins  
An in-depth look at Inland Revenue's latest report - a good year overall but rising tax and student loan debt remains an issue.

An historic UK Budget with plenty of ramifications for Kiwis & IR's crackdown continues

Nov 01 2024 19 mins  
Rachel Reeves, the first ever female Chancellor of the Exchequer delivers a UK Autumn Budget with potentially significant implications for many Kiwis and Britons who have migrated to New Zealand. Meanwhile Inland Revenue's crackdown on tax evasion continues.

Is there a non-compliance issue with overseas income, Tax Policy Charitable Trust Scholarship & more

Oct 25 2024 17 mins  
This week, surprising stats around the number of taxpayers reporting foreign investment fund income, the winners of this year's Tax Policy Charitable Trust Scholarship are announced and a preview of next week’s United Kingdom Budget