About this episode

The episode discusses the Finance and Expenditure Committee report on the 2025-26 tax bill, highlighting positive news for financial arrangement holders and challenges for property flippers.

The Finance and Expenditure Committee report on the Taxation (Annual Rates for 2025–26, Compliance Simplification, and Remedial Measures) bill contains good news for holders of financial arrangements, meanwhile the controversial Inland Revenue shareholder loan proposals hit a major roadblock. And finally property flippers should beware.

Topics covered

• taxation
• financial arrangements
• Inland Revenue
• property flipping
• legislation

Keywords

• tax bill
• financial arrangements
• Inland Revenue
• property flippers
• legislation

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Finance and Expenditure Committee, Inland Revenue

Places: New Zealand

More episodes of The Week In Tax

• More on the Australian Budget, is New Zealand a tax haven, Google's 2025 results & looking ahead to next week's Budget · May 22, 2026 · 22 min
• OECD suggests overhaul of retirement savings & KiwiSaver, 2026 National Climate Change Risk Assessment & the Australian Budget · May 15, 2026 · 23 min
• Inland Revenue "reminds" cryptasset investor of their obligations, what is the effect of fiscal drag & a major EU report on taxation of wealth · April 24, 2026 · 22 min
• Tax Justice Aotearoa's recently released Tax Policy Statement - what changes would it like to see? · April 16, 2026 · 52 min
• Inland Revenue adds another tool for its crypto-asset activities, & beware the hidden traps of the financial arrangements regime · April 10, 2026 · 13 min
• Happy New (Tax) Year, Government's fuel relief package, 1st April changes and more · April 2, 2026 · 15 min

Explore listener stats, chart rankings, contacts and more on the The Week In Tax podcast page.