The SME Stream

New Zealanders owe 9.5billion dollars in overdue tax, with small business owners and the self-employed most likely to get behind.
Director of Future Focused Accountants, Catriona Knapp, joins Nadine to explain what can go wrong if you don't get on top of your tax obligations and why it's better to face the debt head-on than bury your head in the sand.
With the IRD cracking down on collecting overdue tax, now is the time to school up on what you need to know to avoid a knock on your door from the taxman.
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Artificial intelligence is being sold to us as the future.
Faster, smarter, more efficient, maybe even world changing.
But as a handful of tech companies race to build ever more powerful AI, there are growing questions about secrecy, exploitation, and the extraordinary concentration of power behind the scenes.
Journalist Karen Hao has spent years reporting on OpenAI and the global AI industry, and in her book Empire of AI, she argues this isn’t just a story about technology, it’s a story about ideology, labour, resources, and control.
Today on The Front Page, Karen Hao joins us to unpack the rise of OpenAI, Sam Altman, and the real cost of the AI arms race.
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You can read more about this and other stories in the New Zealand Herald, online at nzherald.co.nz, or tune in to news bulletins across the NZME network.
Host: Chelsea Daniels
Editor/Producer: Richard Martin
Producer: Jane Yee
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The New Zealand First leader says they'll be telling the National Australia Bank we want our bank back - as he lays out plans for the Government to buy BNZ.
The party will campaign on the purchase - after its sale in 1992 - and merging it with Kiwibank to create a National Bank of New Zealand.
Winston Peters told Mike Hosking that the bank may not be for sale, but they'll make sure it is.
He says he doubts the National Australia Bank would turn them down - so Kiwis won't be ripped off for much longer if NZ First gets back in.
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The ads we see on social media promise us a great many things, but how many of them are as good as they seem?
Ed McKnight was recently served an ad on Facebook promising rental investment with great returns that set off a few alarms.
He joined Jack Tame to break down the ad and explain the concerning signs to look for if you spot an investment ad that seems too good to be true.
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BusinessDesk's Riley Kennedy discusses Synlait's Leadership Reset.
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