Taxes

NZ Herald 17 May 2008

Q&As: 61-year-old struggling to pay off mortgage considers renting out her house and becoming a tenant elsewhere; Self-employed man wants to get back “over payment” into KiwiSaver.

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NZ Herald 5 April 2008

Q&As: The best KiwiSaver fund for a 23-year-old depends on her house-buying plans; Angry Blue Chip investor muddles my opinion with a reader’s opinion; A reader suggests why online tax payments sometimes go wrong.

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NZ Herald 29 March 2008

Q&As: Do Blue Chip, finance company and other investment victims deserve what’s happened?; 2 Q&As on “nicer” ways to invest than rental property; Electronic tax payment problems not common.

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NZ Herald 15 March 2008

Q&As: Two readers sound off about ring fencing rental property tax losses, and a third puts it all in historical perspective; Another reader worries about the difficulties of making tax payments online.

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NZ Herald 8 March 2008

Q&As: A landlord’s threats are perhaps a little hasty — but he has a point; A KiwiSaver misunderstands the ups and downs of the market; Are property shares a good option for young man saving to buy his first home?

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NZ Herald 24 November 2007

Q&As: Eggs in baskets don’t really apply to term deposits, but there’s another way to diversify; Taxing options if you take flatmates in to help you pay the mortgage; 2 Q&As on how to make the most of KiwiSaver if you are in and out of the work force.

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The Investor 29 May 2007

Back to the creepy stuff. Well, he did it. Despite my impassioned plea in this column in February last year, Finance Minister Michael Cullen took away our chewing gum tax cut in the recent Budget. And we’re much bigger losers than most people realise.

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The Investor 15 May 2007

Readers respond on KiwiSaver tax breaks. Three readers were unhappy with my last column, in which I said the KiwiSaver tax breaks expected in the upcoming Budget will benefit only some people, at the expense of New Zealand as a whole.

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The Investor 1 May 2007

Think again about those KiwiSaver tax breaks. Many readers were no doubt pleased to hear of Winston Peters’ recent hints that the May 17 Budget will include tax breaks in the KiwiSaver retirement savings scheme. But only some will benefit — and it will be at the expense of others, and the country as a whole.

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