Latest / The Kākā by Bernard Hickey
A Green smorgasbord of wealth taxes
TL;DR: The Greens have proposed a smorgasbord of $15.5 billion worth of wealth taxes annually for Labour to pick and choose from, or ignore completely, in any government-forming negotiations after Election 2023 on October 14.
So now the rule-in-rule-out game begins. Labour started carefully yesterday, saying it would roll out its own tax policy in the coming weeks. National and ACT leapt to assign all of the Green tax policy to the ‘coalition of chaos’.
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