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KiwiSaver change should be no suprise - English

10 December 2008

It should be no surprise that employees in KiwiSaver with bosses who pay above the current minimum will have to pay extra tax, Finance Minister Bill English said this morning.

Scrooge on KiwiSaver, Santa on tax

10 December 2008

Promised tax cuts are on the way as the Government pushes them through Parliament under urgency but Prime Minister John Key is under fire for being a Christmas grinch as KiwiSaver and workplace law changes bite.

Australia, NZ agree to progress work on mutual recognition of imputation and franking credits

17 July 2008

The Australian and New Zealand governments are open to the idea of moving toward mutual recognition of imputation and franking credits between firms that invest in each other's country, Australian Treasurer Wayne Swan and New Zealand Finance Minister Michael Cullen said today.

Nats silent on KiwiSaver Tax

19 March 2008

Kiwisaver members will still get a government subsidy under National, but finance spokesman Bill English is refusing to say whether that means keeping up to $20 a week in tax breaks.

Tax Bill’s KiwiSaver provisions to be fine-tuned

11 December 2007

The government has introduced a number of minor changes to fine-tune KiwiSaver legislation in the taxation bill currently before Parliament.