Wellington, Oct 22 NZPA - Labour is using an OECD income inequality report to accuse National of looking after the wealthy at the expense of the poor when it was in power.

New Zealand First leader Winston Peters has put forward a radical proposal to float shares in Kiwibank and channel all the Government's $55 billion a year business through it.

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Family breakdowns and decreasing marriage rates are costing taxpayers $1 billion a year, a New Zealand Institute of Economic Research (NZIER) report released today says.

by Kate Chapman of NZPA Wellington, Oct 6 NZPA - Serious trans-Tasman talks are needed about insuring bank deposits here to ensure New Zealand taxpayers do not end up subsidising Australian-owned banks, a banking academic said today.

Tax cuts will put public servants' jobs at risk, a union says. The Public Service Association is taking out a series of advertisements saying that every 10 cents a year in tax cuts represents the jobs of seven public servants.

Wellington, Aug 29 NZPA - The Commerce Commission has ranked a new Vodafone plan as the cheapest New Zealand fixed calling plan, even though it does not use a fixed line. TelstraClear provides the cheapest plan that actually uses a fixed line.

Wellington, June 4 NZPA - Personal and corporate income tax cuts are a good use of the budget surplus to counter economic slowdown, according to the latest OECD report on the New Zealand economy.

Wellington, May 23 NZPA - The Government's $350 million five-year funding boost to speed up the roll out of faster broadband in yesterday's budget was underwhelming but pragmatic, an analyst says.

Wellington, May 19 NZPA - Econet Wireless, the South African based company which has been claiming since 2000 to be building a third New Zealand cellphone network, today sold its stake in the NZ business to a US telecommunications investor.