Ryan Bridge: A warning for Chris Hipkins

There’s a warning for Hipkins as he plots higher taxes for Kiwi businesses, investors, and savers - it comes from across the ditch.

Albanese’s been having problems getting his super tax plan across the line, despite having a majority in Parliament.

Dr Bryce Wilkinson: Should New Zealanders aspire to be among the world’s most taxed people?

Max Rashbrooke's recent research note, "High earner tax rates: New Zealand in context," makes a case that rich people in New Zealand pay less tax than they would on the same income in some of the highest-taxed countries in the world.
But is this really the case? And if it is the case, what follows?

The case is problematic. It is based on a stylised OECD study that does not take into account issues of loopholes, realised versus unrealised gains, inflation-adjustments and IRD refunds for capital losses.