Kerre Woodham: Just introduce a capital gains tax and be done with it
For the love of all that is holy - can we just introduce a capital gains tax and be done with it?
I am so sick of it dominating the headlines. The issue is never ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever going to go away, despite two Labour Prime Ministers ruling it out, despite Christopher Luxon ruling it out - it comes up. It's like a nagging child, “I want a capital gains tax. I want a capital gains tax, I want a capital gains tax, I want a capital gains tax”, and then in the end you give in.
This time it's because ANZ's Chief Executive, Antonia Watson, said in an interview yesterday that “the…
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