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John PayneJohn Payne

John Payne is head of tax at the Government's $39b New Zealand Superannuation Fund, and convenor of the tax thought leadership group the Corporate Taxpayer Group. He is a member of the Commissioner of Inland Revenue 's Business Transformation Reference Group. Payne is a fellow member of the Chartered Accountants of Australia and New Zealand, and has a B Com from Auckland University.

And New Zealand’s biggest taxpayer is…

3 April 20181 April 2018 by John Payne

Tax Heroes: It has paid billions in tax since 2003, but the NZ Super Fund’s head of tax John Payne says it sees tax as simply a return to the government. The New Zealand Super Fund was set up in 2003 to help pre-fund the future cost of universal superannuation in New Zealand, and it … Read more

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