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Google and Facebook pay way less tax in New Zealand than in Australia – and we're paying the price

  • Written by: Victoria Plekhanova, Lecturer, Massey University
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The New Zealand government’s recently announced NZ$50 million subsidy package to support local media was necessary and urgent – even if it came too late to save the Bauer magazine titles from closing.

But the injection of government cash did not address the underlying cause of the decline of New Zealand’s...

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