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2026
SEPTEMBER
- Gisborne organisation Te Kupenga Net Trust appeals Charities Register deregistration
- New Zealand’s highest paid charity bosses gain pay rises
- ‘Significant consequence’: Charity Law Association raises concerns over Gloriavale losing charitable status
- Gloriavale trust stripped of charitable status over governance failures
- New tax limits and concessions for charities
- The illusion behind NZ’s $26b charitable boom
- Golf and charity work among conflicts of interest forcing six Marlborough councillors to leave funding talks
- Need Grows As Resources Decline: Not For Profit Sector Report
AUGUST
- Gisborne charity Te Kupenga Net Trust faces possible deregistration over late accounts
- Newly reissued LexisNexis title charts incorporated societies overhaul and its implications
- Army-run welfare fund loses charity status after failure to file returns
- National MP says there is ‘zero’ logic behind Budget tax change
- Volunteering – From Extracurricular to Essential
- Charities linked to Destiny Church face Internal Affairs probe
- Sham charities, fake salaries alleged in $3.2m fraud probe – the biggest of its kind
JULY
- Wellington Filmmakers To Make Films For Charities In New Competition
- Customers chase refunds after NZ Rescue scraps luxury car promotion amid DIA investigation
JUNE
- Inside NZ’s mega-philanthropy: What drives richlisters and millionaires to donate
- Charity sector faces double whammy of credit cap, reduced support
- BNZ fined $2.6 million after misleading some customers with non-profit accounts
- Charities condemn $33,000 donation tax credit limit as ‘sledgehammer’ move (Paywalled)
- ‘A significant cost for us’ – Tax credit changes to hit charity sector
MAY
- Improving tax rules for charities
- Trusted accounts worker Melanie Kingi jailed for stealing $823k from charity organisation
- New Zealand Adds Donation Option to NZ$5M Golden Visa
- Inside John Tamihere’s six-figure Waipareira Trust bonus and his long war with Charities Services
- The sausage sizzle was invented in NZ, not Australia. We have the evidence
- Lottery board committees to be slashed, Department of Internal Affairs confirms
APRIL
- Woman fleeces $823k from Waikato charity
- How Prepared Are Charities To Deal With A Surge In Need As Winter And The Fuel Crisis Create A “Perfect Storm”?
- Fuel crisis sends poorest into ‘doom spiral’ as Auckland charities see dip in food parcel pick-ups
- Another charity scandal [Te Kāika – Ed]
- ‘Shouldn’t come as a surprise’: No extensions to incorporated societies deadline, minister says
MARCH
- Where Kiwis donate their money, and why starving children in Africa don’t rate
- Democracy Briefing: Te Kāika and the broken model of social service contracting
- What happened to Nicola Willis’s plan for charities tax reform?
- Ex-charity boss Matekino Marshall charged by SFO with misappropriating more than $2m
- DIA Confirms Investigation into Te Kaika Charity (paywall)
- Thousands Of Incorporated Societies Risk Deregistration If They Miss The Easter Sunday Deadline
FEBRUARY
- More than 20 people charged over New Zealand pokie proceeds fraud
- A little-known law can stop RSAs and sports clubs from selling booze – but that’s changing
- Creating “mini endowments” could give UK charities £147 billion to use for social investment
JANUARY
- Why brokers can’t outsource community trust – and why charity is becoming a hard-nosed strategy
- Half of New Zealand’s community groups face extinction as deadline looms under ballooning new rules
- The New Zealand Tax Podcast – changes ahead for not-for-profits, and a look back at 2025
- Defiance from Waipareira gets rewarded by Charities Services! -opinion
- Charity tax u-turn lets Sanitarium off hook but targets family foundations
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