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Wealthy Golden Visa investors seek urgent tax changes

The Government is looking at a number of tweaks to tax settings for migrants and the Active Investor Plus visa scheme as part of a one-year review.

Are further changes needed to the AIP scheme to ensure migrants stay in the country after three years?

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Key points
  • What’s at stake: Active Investor Plus visa holders want more changes to the one-year-old scheme, including to the taxation rules.
  • The background: The scheme has boomed since changes were introduced a year ago making it more attractive, The government is now reviewing whether more changes are required, including adding more options.
  • The players: AIP visa holders, Courtney Andelman, Erica Stanford, Simon Watts.

New Zealand’s Active Investors Plus (AIP) visa is not a roaring success, says wealthy American Courtney Andelman.

Courtney and her husband Jim are venture capitalists from California who, alongside their twin daughters, were the one hundredth family to be granted a visa under the revamped

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Fiona Rotherham Tue, 02 Jun 2026
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Key points
  • What’s at stake: Active Investor Plus visa holders want more changes to the one-year-old scheme, including to the taxation rules.
  • The background: The scheme has boomed since changes were introduced a year ago making it more attractive, The government is now reviewing whether more changes are required, including adding more options.
  • The players: AIP visa holders, Courtney Andelman, Erica Stanford, Simon Watts.
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