But Labour leader Chris Hipkins said there is “absolutely no evidence to suggest that this is going to reduce smoking”.
“It’s a $200 million-plus tax cut to the country’s biggest tobacco company,” he said.
This is a falsehood, no ifs and no buts.
I deal with this here. The Government has agreed to halve tax on heated tobacco products to see if that will lead to more smokers using them, instead of cigarettes. They are less harmful.
The actual tax on these products is $5.97 million, so the reduction in tax is $3 million, not $200 million.
So what is this $200 million figure? It is an estimate of the reduced tax revenue from smoking, on the assumption 7,200 smokers stop smoking, and substitute to heated tobacco products.
This is not a tax reduction on tobacco companies. It is less taxation, as fewer people smoke and fewer cigarettes are purchased. Labour are complaining that there will be less tax revenue from smoking, because fewer people will smoke.
The media should not just repeat claims that are so fundamentally false.
David Farrar runs Curia Market Research, a specialist opinion polling and research agency, and the popular Kiwiblog where this article was sourced. He previously worked in the Parliament for eight years, serving two National Party Prime Ministers and three Opposition Leaders.
I deal with this here. The Government has agreed to halve tax on heated tobacco products to see if that will lead to more smokers using them, instead of cigarettes. They are less harmful.
The actual tax on these products is $5.97 million, so the reduction in tax is $3 million, not $200 million.
So what is this $200 million figure? It is an estimate of the reduced tax revenue from smoking, on the assumption 7,200 smokers stop smoking, and substitute to heated tobacco products.
This is not a tax reduction on tobacco companies. It is less taxation, as fewer people smoke and fewer cigarettes are purchased. Labour are complaining that there will be less tax revenue from smoking, because fewer people will smoke.
The media should not just repeat claims that are so fundamentally false.
David Farrar runs Curia Market Research, a specialist opinion polling and research agency, and the popular Kiwiblog where this article was sourced. He previously worked in the Parliament for eight years, serving two National Party Prime Ministers and three Opposition Leaders.
5 comments:
This is just another example of misleading information being published. Does NZ have an independant regulator we could complain to? Or is the MSM self regulating?
I presume that by "tax" everybody means Excise Duty which is paid by the consumer, not the producer. So Hipkins is now in the same intellectual ball park as Donald Trump who believes his proposed tariffs on imports will be paid by the exporting country. And that's not a good place to be!
It has been apparent from the outset that Labour, via the petulant Ayesha Verrall, has just been fomenting a beat-up on Casey Costello. I fervently hope that not any one of them holds office again.
Here is another recent one from Chris Hipkins: “It is essential that we protect the principles of partnership, participation, and protection that the Treaty embodies.”
However the Waitangi Tribunal report WAI 2575 (pp. 79-80) says:
“These expressions were derived from the 1988 Royal Commission on Social Policy and are set out in both the 2002 and the 2014 versions of He Korowai Oranga. The Crown acknowledged that the Ministry’s ‘three Ps’ could be regarded as a ‘reductionist view of Treaty principles’ but submitted that they were an attempt to create a common language for use by a large work force, which was about to undertake a new journey of understanding about what the Treaty means.”
I think that means they are admitting that the 'three Ps' are merely propaganda.
Don't worry guys, these msm lying losers are being culled rapidly.
The team at 1 news are doing everything they can to keep their toxic far left agenda going but the writing is on the wall for them, besides no one believes any thing any reporter on one news says....
Heres one for you,
How do you know a one news reporter is lying?
Their lips are moving.
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