Hi Dillonruairi ! A good many of us on here don't have brilliant eyesight ant more, and I am finding it very difficult to count the number of letters in your 1st clue. 13? It would be helpful if you could state the number of letters, and either use ??? for the blanks, or space out the hyphens - - - .
New Zealand tax: On the basis of -r-m-g- I guessed at primage, which Chambers says is a payment, in addition to freight, made by shippers for loading. But no mention of NZ. However, Googling "New Zealand primage" confirmed this as the answer.