Ryan Bridge: I wouldn't hold your breath for tax cuts

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Sep 15, 2026 · 1m · transcript

Tax cuts are back on the campaign agenda.

Nicola Willis dropped a wee hint to the BusinessNZ election conference yesterday.

Bracket creep is hurting workers – as wages increase and you creep into a higher tax bracket, you pay more marginal tax. That's not fair.

So, something might be done about it.

I say "might" because there are caveats and they're big ones.

National must be re-elected. Its coalition partners would need to agree. That was far from a done deal yesterday.

And the Government must have the books back in surplus – the plan is 2029/30.

But as I said yesterday, even then it's…