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High Court bats away Eric Watson company’s poverty plea

Cullen Group said costs order would tip it into insolvency. High Court disagreed.

Reweti Kohere Tue, 03 Dec 2019

A High Court judge batted away pleas by former NBR Rich Lister Eric Watson’s parent company for more time to pay about $500,000 in overdue court costs in Inland Revenue’s tax avoidance case. 

The judgment also revealed details suppressed in a previous hearing. Last month, Cullen Group lawyer

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Reweti Kohere Tue, 03 Dec 2019
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