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MEDIA RELEASE: Labour’s Commitment on Tax Welcomed - with Caveat
02 December 2024
Tax Justice Aotearoa welcomes the resolution of the Labour Party conference to continue work...
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MEDIA RELEASE: TJA welcomes support for CGT in latest poll
17 October 2024
TJA welcomes the latest 1News-Verian poll showing almost half of voters support a CGT.
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MEDIA RELEASE: Petition Calls for Capital Gains Tax
27 September 2024
A petition has been launched today calling on the leaders of all our political parties to co...
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MEDIA RELEASE: Well-off New Zealanders Would Pay More Tax in Other Countries: New Research
19 September 2024
New research shows that high earners in NZ are lightly taxed compared with those from other ...
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MEDIA RELEASE: Coalition Budget Tax Switch Will Hurt Most Vulnerable
30 May 2024
The coalition budget announced today is little more than a regressive tax switch, says TJA.
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BLOG - Garbage In, Garbage Out: TPU Polling on Tax
28 May 2024
Taxpayers’ Union polls on tax are not what they seem, writes Dr Terence Wood.
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MEDIA RELEASE: No tax cuts at cost of spending cuts - voters
20 May 2024
Voters not keen on cuts to public spending and services to fund government tax cuts.
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MEDIA RELEASE: Hipkins' Commitment to Tax Reform Welcomed
25 March 2024
Review of Labour's tax policies - including CGT & wealth tax - welcomed by TJA.
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LATEST: UN Tax Convention
21 February 2024
The General Assembly adopted a resolution on the promotion of international tax cooperation...
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MEDIA RELEASE: ACT's Tax Policies Regressive, Shortsighted
29 January 2024
An unlikely proposal to "flatten the tax system" at this year's budget is unhelpful and shor...
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Government’s Unfunded Tax Plans Demonstrate Need for Better Taxes
20 December 2023
The Government has still not fully explained how tax cuts will be funded, says TJA.
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MEDIA RELEASE: Repeal of Tax Principles Act Undermines Transparency
19 December 2023
The Govt repeal of Taxation Principles Act is short-sighted & a step backwards, says TJA.
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MEDIA RELEASE: Labour's Signal on Capital Gains Tax Welcomed
05 December 2023
Deborah Russell's call for a rethink on Labour's tax policies is being welcomed by Tax Justi...
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MEDIA RELEASE: New Govt Must Address NZ's Revenue Gap
24 November 2023
New Zealand's growing revenue deficit needs urgent attention from its new Finance and Revenu...
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MEDIA RELEASE: Tax Progress at UN Welcomed - NZ Should Support
23 November 2023
Tax Justice Aotearoa welcomes last night's landslide vote in favour of international tax coo...
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MEDIA RELEASE: Coalition Calls for Bold Tax Action
04 August 2023
A diverse group of organisations have combined forces this election year to call for bold ac...
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NZ Loses Millions Offshore - Report
26 July 2023
New Zealand is losing millions in tax as a result of multinational companies shifting their ...
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Time’s right for genuine talk on tax
11 June 2023
Tax Justice Aotearoa is encouraged to see serious talk on tax starting to take shape this el...
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Better Budgets depend on better taxes
18 May 2023
Priorities signalled in today’s Budget all point to the need for a tax and revenue system th...
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Willingness to be taxed more applauded
11 May 2023
Tax Justice Aotearoa applauds today’s launching of an open letter to politicians from people...
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High Wealth report confirms fundamental unfairness in the NZ tax system
26 April 2023
Tax Justice Aotearoa welcomes the release of data from the IRD’s High Wealth Individuals Re...
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TJA express its support for the Green Party's idea of an excess profits tax
31 October 2022
Tax Justice Aotearoa has expressed its support for the Green Party’s initiative in launchin...
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TJA reacts: New Zealand’s Financial Secrecy rating “not good enough”
17 May 2022
New Zealand has been rated 53 out of 142 countries in the latest Financial Secrecy Index rep...
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TJA react to Revenue Minister’s tax principles
26 April 2022
Tax Justice Aotearoa (TJA) welcomes the tax principles laid out by Revenue Minister David Pa...
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Asset secrecy means NZ will struggle to implement Russia Sanctions Act
17 March 2022
Laws in Aotearoa make it near-impossible to discover who owns some companies and trusts.
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National's Proposed Tax Cuts "Destructive" - Tax Justice Aotearoa
07 March 2022
National’s proposed tax cuts have been described as destructive by Tax Justice Aotearoa.
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Tax Justice Aotearoa slams Uber's irresponsible tax behaviour at a time of stretched public services
18 November 2021
Tax Justice Aotearoa welcomes the report Estimating Uber's tax gap in Aotearoa.
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State of Tax Justice Report reveals extent of global tax abuse
16 November 2021
Countries are losing a total of $483 billion in tax a year to global tax abuse.
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New Zealand Must Take A Strong Stand in International Tax Negotiations
08 October 2021
TJA is concerned about international tax rules as 140 countries, led by the OECD and G20, ed...
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Time to Tax Wealth as Well as Work
26 June 2020
TJA welcomes the forward-thinking in the Green Party’s Poverty Action Plan released today.
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New Zealand needs to stop multinational tax avoidance
24 July 2019
New research shows that multinational corporations continue to avoid paying millions in tax.
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