Professor Robert MacCulloch: Labour leader Hipkins' dishonesty....

Labour Leader & Former Education Minister Hipkins must be held to account for his maths mistakes & dishonesty about the economic implications of population ageing

In an interview with TVNZ's Jack Tame, Labour's Chris Hipkins mislead Tame & five million New Zealanders about the economic implications of population ageing, which he states requires imposing capital & asset taxes. 

Kerre Woodham: David Seymour is nothing if not pragmatic

David Seymour and ACT are nothing if not pragmatists.

After taking in the impact of the PREFU, the pre-election fiscal and economic update provided by the Government, Seymour has made some changes to ACT’s alternative budget, principally softening tax cuts to account for economic conditions.

Cam Slater: They Might Pay Half the Rate, but They Pay 68% of All Tax

The IRD and the Government have released a report that shows the wealthy in New Zealand pay an effective tax rate of half that which ordinary wage and salary earners pay. Missing from the media and the report is the fact that this is all entirely legal and that none of those the report is about are being prosecuted.

That means the report is a political exercise designed to soften us all up for increased taxation.