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Kōrero: Taxes

Lord of the rings

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<em>Lord of the rings</em>

This Air New Zealand jet is painted to advertise the Lord of the rings film trilogy, which was shot in New Zealand in the early 2000s. In the late 1990s the government offered tax breaks to film-makers and it extended these as a one-off deal for the Lord of the rings film trilogy. Tax concessions for certain sectors are politically risky as others can also make a case for special treatment and are aggrieved.

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by Kynan Gentry

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Paul Goldsmith, Taxes – Tax, ideology and international comparisons, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/21560/lord-of-the-rings (accessed 4 June 2026).

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