Some of the worthies as I attempt to get the tabs down to a more manageable level... Michael Reddell keeps documenting the problems at RBNZ....

The worthies, on the closing of the browser tabs I still have great difficulty understanding why it is worse to draw up to 5000 cubic meters...

The morning's worthies: A virtual art gallery of DALL-E created works . My favourite: The link gets you the annotated guide, as well ...

The morning's worthies: Robert MacCulloch brings the prosecution's case against the RBNZ . A future better government will have some...

Last year, Victoria University's Chair in Public Finance Norm Gemmell sounded a few warnings about Labour's tax changes .  The new 3...

The afternoon's closing of the browser tabs brings a few worthies: Vincent Geloso's case for not getting rid of a ceremonial monarch...

Susan Edmunds at Stuff asked me what effect Labour's proposed new tax rate on earnings above $180k might have on the usual "people ...

If you're in Auckland, come catch me in a LEANZ panel discussion on tobacco tax, along with Marewa Glover and Peter Wilson .  Here...

The Spinoff asked for a few words on today's Tax Working Group report. They're here , and copied below. The Tax Working Group’s pr...

IRD has gotten in trouble for doing some polling about potential changes to the tax system. Inland Revenue has admitted it was wrong to a...

Tom Pullar-Strecker has a flip through the new documents released by the Tax Working Group. The group, chaired by Sir Michael Cullen, has...

Responses to NZIER's literature review on sugar taxes have been fun. As reminder on the background: the Ministry of Health commission...

The second installment of my piece on The Outside of the Asylum is up at The Spinoff. It covers tax and airport security . A snippet: Amer...

Your take on last week's budget should depend on whether you have your economist glasses on, your politics glasses on, or your "eco...

If New Zealand were to move towards a tipping norm, here's an entrepreneurial idea. Set up a restaurant. The wait staff are all volunt...

It's budget day here in New Zealand. Much has been pre-announced; Chris Keall has the summary list over at NBR. But as Rob Hosking poin...

Keith Ng's 'mythbusting' around net taxpaying annoyed me enough that I started digging around for more of the literature on th...

Weird can be good and bad. Good weird: Bad weird: Today, Portland, Oregon, became the first jurisdiction in the United States to u...

A few things to remember for the folks angry about how much tax Google pays in New Zealand: Company tax is based on revenue less costs, n...

Greg Mankiw proposed a height tax as a bit of a reductio on the efficient tax literature. You can't adjust your height; height predicts...