Terry Baucher

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Terry Baucher is the director of his Auckland-based tax consultancy firm Baucher Consulting Limited. He writes a regular column on tax for www.interest.co.nz and is a frequent media commentator on tax matters on Radio NZ and the NZ Herald.

National’s ‘Let’s Tax This’ ad from 2017

Opinion

There is already a tax that targets people seeking capital gain on land. Why not apply it?

And it's not the only existing provision the Inland Revenue could look at enforcing in the face of runaway house prices and wealth inequality.

By Terry Baucher | 8th December, 2020

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Opinion

If NZ believed in fairness it’d join other countries in introducing a Google tax now

The government should go ahead and introduce a digital services tax to show the likes of Facebook and Google that their tax planning practices are unacceptable.

By Terry Baucher | 11th June, 2019

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The Labour government’s optimistic announcement that the Tax Working Group had recommended a capital gains tax is now dead in the water. (Photo: Getty.)

The other tax recommendations the government ignored

Along with no CGT the Labour government is left with other tax headaches like what to do about sugar consumption, the environment, and tax thresholds that haven't changed in a decade.

By Terry Baucher | 18th April, 2019

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How to focus Facebook and Google on cleaning up their mess? Tax them

Imposing a digital services tax will concentrate the tech giants' minds on their woeful response to the Christchurch massacre, writes Terry Baucher.

By Terry Baucher | 19th March, 2019

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SkyCity plans to pay up to $40 million in tax on an offshore online gambling operation they’re setting up through a subsidiary (Getty Images)

Huge tax risks for SkyCity with offshore online gambling venture

SkyCity's moves to set up an offshore online gambling subsidiary throw up a huge range of questions about just how tax should work in the digital age

By Terry Baucher | 12th March, 2019

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Kiwisaver is a long game, and people want to know where their money is going. (Photo: Getty Images.)

Beyond Capital Gains: other good stuff from the Tax Working Group report

Employee subsidies for public transport, less tax on KiwiSaver: There are some gems in the government's latest tax report other than the capital gains distraction, writes tax expert Terry Baucher.

By Terry Baucher | 22nd February, 2019

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Capital gains tax? Yeah, nah, definitely, maybe

Will this be another instance of New Zealand saying 'yeah, nah' to a capital gains tax? Tax specialist Terry Baucher investigates.

By Terry Baucher | 18th September, 2018

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The Spinoff

Terry Baucher

There is already a tax that targets people seeking capital gain on land. Why not apply it?

Budget 2020: Can we expect any radical tax proposals?

Five ways the Covid-19 crisis could change our tax system

Uber is a case study in our complicity with tax avoidance

If NZ believed in fairness it’d join other countries in introducing a Google tax now

The other tax recommendations the government ignored

How to focus Facebook and Google on cleaning up their mess? Tax them

Huge tax risks for SkyCity with offshore online gambling venture

Beyond Capital Gains: other good stuff from the Tax Working Group report

Capital gains tax? Yeah, nah, definitely, maybe

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