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Changes tipped for pension transfer regime

Wednesday 13th of March 2013

Last July, Inland Revenue released a paper setting out options for the tax treatment of foreign pensions transferred to New Zealand.

The consultation period closed in September.

The proposal would see a percentage of transferred funds being treated as taxable income on a sliding scale depending on how long the owner of the funds had lived in New Zealand at the time of the transfer...

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