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Kōrero: Taxes

Te Tari Taake

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Te Tari Taake
The Māori name for the Inland Revenue department – Te Tari Taake – has been the source of some bad puns by cartoonists.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: DCDL-0005902

by Mark Winter (Chicane)

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Paul Goldsmith, Taxes – Tax, ideology and international comparisons, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/cartoon/21562/te-tari-taake (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Paul Goldsmith, i tāngia i te 27 October 2009, updated 2 September 2016.