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Goods and services tax (GST) is an indirect tax introduced in New Zealand in 1986. This represented a major change in New Zealand taxation policy as until this point almost all revenue had been raised via direct taxes. GST makes up 24% of the New Zealand Government's core revenue as of 2013. [37]
The Tax Working Group was established on 20 December 2017 with the stated goal of "examine further improvements in the structure, fairness and balance of the tax system." The Working Group will report to the New Zealand Government on the following matters: Whether the tax system operates fairly in relation to taxpayers, income, assets and wealth.
The 1980s were a period of considerable economic and tax reform in New Zealand. New Zealand had never had a formal capital gains tax system (unlike virtually every other OECD nation. The government was considering implementing a capital gains tax and issued a consultative document [2] as part of the (then) process of tax reform. [3]
The Fourth Labour Government of New Zealand governed New Zealand from 26 July 1984 to 2 November 1990 (the period up to 8 August 1989 is also called the Lange Government). It was the first Labour government to win a second consecutive term since the First Labour Government of 1935 to 1949.
Rogernomics, however, has been credited with a number of other positive impacts on the New Zealand economy: [54] inflation, which had reached a high of 17.15% in 1980, has been in single digits every year since the end of Douglas' tenure as finance minister; [55] and income tax rates were halved, [54] while gross national income per capita ...
Bell Gully is the only New Zealand law firm to have a partner ranked in Chambers Global [11] as a leading lawyer for climate change work. Bell Gully is also the only New Zealand law firm to be ranked in the top tier of both International Tax Review's (ITR) World Tax 2020 [ 12 ] and World Transfer Pricing 2020.
Sir Bryan James Todd (8 September 1902 – 29 May 1987) was one of four brothers who built one of New Zealand's biggest industrial and commercial enterprises. He was an important figure in the development of the New Zealand oil and gas energy industry and, incidentally, in the development of New Zealand tax law.
In 1995, a Rewrite Advisory Panel was established to consider and advise on issues arising during the rewriting of the income tax legislation, as part of New Zealand tax reform arising from the Working Party on the Reorganisation of the Income Tax Act 1976. The panel was disestablished in 2014 at the completion of the tax reform. [4]