Kerre Woodham: What do you define as a fair tax system?

Best of Business · Mar 8, 2023 · 7m

Let's talk tax.

It is an election year, which means a number of key policies are coming under the spotlight. All the usual suspects - health, law and order, welfare and tax.

A Newsroom article has proposed a fairer tax system that would, the author posits, bridge the gap between the haves and the have-nots.

Inequality is the enemy of society.

It's fine if we're all poor and fine if we're all rich. Where you run into problems is where you have a divide between those who don't have and those who do.

At the moment, according to the Newsroom article, our tax system depends heavily on income and…