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Thank you for the opportunity to talk to you this morning, to celebrate the implementation today of income tax cuts that put $1.2 billion a year back into the pockets of taxpayers, to improve their

The Gross Domestic Product for the June quarter declined by 0.8% as expected, and GDP increased by 1.2% in the year to June, Treasurer and Finance Minister Bill Birch said today.

Treasurer and Finance Minister Bill Birch today emphasised that the change in Moody 's credit rating related only to future New Zealand sovereign foreign currency borrowings.

Significant Export Gains in Major Western Markets

Competition from the three new SOEs to be formed from the split of ECNZ will reduce the wholesale price of electricity and bring savings of at least $150 million a year to households and businesses

Fiscal Effects Take Somewhat Longer to Work Through Treasury's forecast of a rebound to dynamic positive growth by 1999-2000 "highlights the strength and flexibility of our economy today in the fac

The Treasury has prepared a set of economic and fiscal forecasts for the Cabinet, which will be considered by Cabinet at its meeting on Monday, 7 September.

In the last week there have been some very interesting headlines from a country which, through Asia's economic slump, has been hit by the biggest external shock since the oil crises of the 70s.

Housing Corporation Selling MortgagesGovernment has announced that Housing Corporation of New Zealand (HCNZ) is selling mortgages held by about 8,000 clients to a WestpacTrust subsidiary for approx

Tax Discussion Document on Self-assessment Released

The Government's guarantee of shares in Auckland International Airport Limited to all New Zealanders who apply is much more than Richard Prebble ever offered Kiwi families, Finance Minister Bill Bi

Ministerial interference in distribution arrangements for Auckland Airport prospectuses would be counter-productive and undesirable, Finance Minister Bill Birch and SOE Minister Tony Ryall said tod

The Rt Hon Bill Birch, Minister of Finance and Revenue, and Hon Max Bradford, Minister of Energy, today rebutted Trustpower's attack on the tax consequences of electricity reform as being deceptive

New Zealand was fortunate to have a Coalition Government willing to continue to place a priority on lower taxes, including lower corporate rates, Finance Minister Bill Birch said tonight.

"Legislation currently before Select Committee closes a loophole in the tax treatment of Superannuation Funds investing in Group Investment Funds" the Minister of Finance and Revenue, Rt Hon Bill B

Minister of Finance and Revenue, Rt Hon Bill Birch, welcomed the passing of the Electricity Industry Reform Act today saying that it "was a further step in the Government's micro-economic reform pr

Treasurer Winston Peters, Revenue Minister Bill Birch, and Energy Minister Max Bradford today welcomed changes recommended for the tax provisions in the electricity reform legislation now before Pa

Minister of Employment Peter McCardle is pleased to announce the name of the organisation formed from the integration of the NZ Employment Service, Income Support, Community Employment Group, and L

The new deemed rate of return used for the purpose of the Foreign Investment Fund regime has been set by regulation, Minister of Revenue Bill Birch announced today.

Finance Minister and Acting Treasurer Rt Hon Bill Birch said the increase in total overseas debt would be addressed by improving economic growth and by increased saving in the private sector.

Finance Minister Bill Birch tonight announced changes in income tax collection that eliminate 1.2 million IR5 income tax returns, save taxpayers up to $60m a year in compliance costs, and create an

Thank you for this opportunity to talk to you today.

The gas industry, along with the whole energy sector, has been through huge changes since I entered Parliament in 1972.

The outlook for tourism and exports over the next three years is very positive, Finance Minister Rt Hon Bill Birch said today.

Finance Minister and Acting Treasurer Rt Hon Bill Birch said today that the report out of the Australian National University (ANU) about the risk to the New Zealand economy was grossly misleading.