Tag: taxation
Looting breaks out in PNG capital during police and military strike
By Finau Fonua, RNZ Pacific journalist, and Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent
Shops have been set on fire or looted in parts of Papua...
NZ election 2023: Labour’s disconnect with the electorate – and with...
COMMENTARY: By John Minto
There is a sea change happening in the wider electorate in Aotearoa New Zealand which is counter intuitive to what the...
NZ election 2023: Dear NZ, our foundations are in ruin...
COMMENTARY: By Martyn Bradbury
Aotearoa New Zealand's opposition - and poll leader -- National Party's three biggest donors have a combined net worth of $15...
NZ election 2023: Better ways than taxation to bring down living...
From RNZ's Mata with Mihingarangi Forbes
Labour leader Chris Hipkins believes there are better ways to bring down the cost of housing, electricity and groceries...
Bryce Edwards: Can David Parker push Labour back onto a more...
ANALYSIS: By Bryce Edwards
Cabinet Minister David Parker recently told The Spinoff he’s reading The Triumph of Injustice – how the wealthy avoid paying tax...
Rich-lister supports NZ capital gains tax as new research opens fresh...
By Anneke Smith, RNZ News political reporter
One of New Zealand's wealthiest people says he supports a capital gains tax, as new research lays...
Fiji’s reduced VAT ‘a failed gamble’ – a vision now needed,...
By Meri Radinibaravi in Suva
The gamble that the previous FijiFirst government took in 2016 — in reducing the value added tax (VAT) rate from...
Fiji tax system – ‘we’ll look after our vulnerable people’, says...
By Shayal Devi in Suva
Any attempt to review or change Fiji’s existing taxation system will be done with proper consideration of all reports and...
Hard to speak up at first as the only woman, but...
Catherine Mori is the oldest female employee in the Customs and Tax Administration in the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM). And she may well...
Bryan Bruce: The fog of economic policy is starting to clear
ANALYSIS: By Bryan Bruce
National’s economic policy of temporary tax cuts for next month's New Zealand general election yesterday proved - if proof be needed...
Bryan Bruce: Judith Collins selection last throw of the dice to...
ANALYSIS: By Bryan Bruce
The selection of Judith Collins by her colleagues as the new leader of New Zealand's opposition National Party is a last...
Duterte on new ABS-CBN franchise: ‘I’ll cross the bridge when I...
President Rodrigo Duterte administers the oath of office to the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) officials in a ceremony at the...
RSF calls on Philippine state to ‘stop hounding’ Rappler in ‘laughable’...
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called on the Philippine authorities to stop hounding Rappler, after officials confirmed that a previously dismissed...
Oro Governor Juffa backs PNG taxes brush up to catch dodgers
Oro Governor Gary Juffa on the PNG government’s taxation plan. Video: EMTV News
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Oro Governor Gary Juffa has commended the Papua New...
No Philippine law tackles ‘Paradise Papers’ 200 offshore accounts
ANALYSIS: By Malou Mangahas and Karol Ilagan in Manila
What do some bankers and fund managers, a few senior government officials, a dozen top taxpayers,...
Willie Jackson: Vision, hope and compassion will beat lies in NZ
OPINION: By Willie Jackson
Never before has Labour come from 23 percent to be neck and neck with National. Jacinda has touched people and made...
Media ‘twisted comments’ about Chinese firm over tax, says Pōhiva
Pacific Media Watch News Desk
Tongan Prime Minister ʻAkilisi Pōhiva has hit back at reports that he told a press conference that “Chinese businesses in...
Ian Shirley: The NZ budget that has failed Auckland
ANALYSIS: By Professor Ian Shirley
New Zealand's 2016 budget offered Auckland nothing in the way of vision or hope and it continued the National government’s...