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Thousands of people will find it easier to obtain their income tax refunds from next year, Revenue Minister Michael Cullen and Associate Revenue Minister Paul Swain announced today.

16 December 2002Media Statement
Income threshold for student loan repayments and interest write-offs to rise

13 November 2002Media Statement
Bill introduces more user-friendly tax law

A 2000-page bill introduced into Parliament today rewrites income tax law to make it easier to use.

Senior Inland Revenue Department officials will visit small to medium-sized business operators around New Zealand to hear their views on how to simplify the tax system, Associate Minister of Revenue Paul Swain announced this morning.

Employers and other interested parties are being invited to put forward their concerns about Fringe Benefit Tax (FBT), as the first step in the government’s FBT Review, Associate Revenue Minister Paul Swain announced today.

The first cluster of tax simplification recommendations from the ‘More Time For Business’ discussion document have become law with the enactment of the Taxation (Relief, Refunds and Miscellaneous Provisions) Act earlier this week.

17 October 2002Media Statement
New law brings tax debt relief, greater certainty for taxpayers

The government has announced its tax policy work programme through to June 2004.

Tax policy has an important role to play in lifting New Zealand’s economic performance, MP David Cunliffe, Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Minister of Finance and Revenue, told the Institute of Chartered Accountants’ annual tax conference today.

8 October 2002 Media Statement
Improvements proposed to GST treatment of financial services

Associate Minister of Revenue Paul Swain congratulated the IRD on the release of its e-enablement strategy and said the strategy was an excellent example of how technology can be used to make taxpayers lives easier.

Revenue Minister Michael Cullen says compliance costs, international tax and initiatives to encourage employment based superannuation are on the government's tax agenda for this term.

BRIEFING FOR INCOMING MINISTER OF REVENUE

AUGUST 2002

STRUCTURE OF THE BRIEFING

20 August 2002Media Statement
FBT rate for low interest loans up