The podcast above of the weekly ‘Hoon’ webinar for paying subscribers on Thursday night featured Bernard Hickey talking with regular guest Cathrine Dyer and special guest Lawyers for Climate Change Executive Director Jessica Palairet about this weeks news on climate change.

Bernard also talked with tax policy expert and accountant Terry Baucher about the IRD’s announcement yesterday it wants to tax company loans to shareholders as dividends if they’re not repaid within a year. As of March 31, 2024, 119,000 companies are owed $28 billion by 165,000 shareholders. Terry has a podcast on Interest.co.nz.

The Hoon’s podcast version above was recorded on Thursday night during a live webinar for over 200 paying subscribers and was produced and edited by Simon Josey.

The Hoon won the silver award for best current affairs podcast in last year’s New Zealand Podcast awards.

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Ngā mihi nui.

Bernard

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