Deborah Russell is a political theorist and a former lecturer in taxation at Massey University. She has written articles on taxation for the Dominion Post, the New Zealand Herald, and The Spinoff, as well as appearing on TV and radio to explain taxation issues, and comment on contemporary social and political issues. Disclosure: Deborah Russell is standing as the Labour candidate in New Lynn in the 2017 election. The ideas in Tax and Fairness are the authors’ own, and are not nor are intended to be Labour policy.
Terry Baucher is the director of his Auckland based tax consultancy firm Baucher Consulting Limited which he founded in August 2004. Born in Northern Ireland, Terry arrived in New Zealand in 1993 to follow the Lions Tour and decided to stay. He has worked as a tax specialist in New Zealand since 1993 after nine years practice in England. He contributes a regular column on current tax issues to www.interest.co.nz and is a frequent commentator on tax matters in the media, including Radio New Zealand and the New Zealand Herald.