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NZBR: 2008 Budget Personal Tax Package
Friday, 8 February 2008, 4:58 pm | New Zealand Business Roundtable
Economic growth is a priority objective of the government. Growth requires improvements in productivity and workforce participation. Both would be assisted by lower taxes. More >>
Shifting The Goal Posts: A Saga of Recent Budgets
Friday, 8 February 2008, 11:44 am | New Zealand Business Roundtable
This article that appeared in the Otago Daily Times today, 8 February 2008. Shifting The Goal Posts: A Saga of Recent Budgets More >>
Carbon Neutrality Goals Costly and Unattainable
Thursday, 7 February 2008, 2:53 pm | New Zealand Business Roundtable
Taken alongside the government’s goals for economic growth, its goal of achieving carbon Neutrality • could cost New Zealand households around $19,000 a year in current dollars by 2025 • but would leave the country further away from carbon ... More >>
Can The Media Help Promote Economic Literacy?
Friday, 11 January 2008, 11:11 am | New Zealand Business Roundtable
Speaking to the Journalism Education Association in Wellington recently, prime minister Helen Clark said she wished the New Zealand media were better informed about, among other things, economics. More >>
Half Year Update Reveals Lacklustre Outlook
Tuesday, 18 December 2007, 3:57 pm | New Zealand Business Roundtable
“The forecasts in the budget documents for growth in the economy in the next five years remain far below finance minister Michael Cullen’s 2002 Budget target”, Roger Kerr, executive director of the New Zealand Business Roundtable, said today. More >>
Roger Kerr: The Real Downsides of Remoteness
Monday, 17 December 2007, 2:10 pm | New Zealand Business Roundtable
The downsides of being a small and remote country are often misunderstood. Its small population and distance from markets did not stop New Zealand being one of the world’s wealthiest countries a hundred years ago. Small, open economies can do just fine. More >>
Redundancy Pay Rebate Bad Tax Policy
Thursday, 13 December 2007, 4:03 pm | New Zealand Business Roundtable
“The government’s move to introduce concessionary tax treatment for redundancy pay is bad tax policy and represents poor process”, Roger Kerr, executive director of the New Zealand Business Roundtable, said today. More >>
Redundancy Pay Rebate Bad Tax Policy
Thursday, 13 December 2007, 3:53 pm | New Zealand Business Roundtable
“The government’s move to introduce concessionary tax treatment for redundancy pay is bad tax policy and represents poor process”, Roger Kerr, executive director of the New Zealand Business Roundtable, said today. More >>
Policies Not Mining Responsible for Oz Prosperity
Friday, 30 November 2007, 11:41 am | New Zealand Business Roundtable
Speaking on TV One’s Agenda programme recently, finance minister Michael Cullen said, “Don’t forget Australia’s wealth is very largely built on its quite crude minerals exports, particularly gas and coal.” More >>
NZBR Perspectives - No. 140 November 2007
Friday, 23 November 2007, 11:14 am | New Zealand Business Roundtable
Flat World, Flat Taxes By Daniel J Mitchell 23 November 2007 Fifteen years ago, advocates of the flat tax had lots of supporting theory, but very little firm data. Milton Friedman had championed the flat tax, and Alvin Rabushka and Robert Hall of ... More >>
The Priority for Tax Reforms: A Flatter Tax Scale
Friday, 16 November 2007, 10:48 am | New Zealand Business Roundtable
Tax cuts are in the news again. The government has signalled that it will move to cut personal tax in the 2008 budget, and the National Party also favours tax reductions. More >>
NZBR Perspectives - No. 138 November 2007
Wednesday, 14 November 2007, 2:58 pm | New Zealand Business Roundtable
Educational Rewards By Paul E. Peterson and Matthew M. Chingos 14 November 2007 For-profit management of public schools is still in its infancy, and many wonder whether it can have a positive effect on student learning. In Philadelphia, that ... More >>
Productivity: NZ's Biggest Economic Problem
Monday, 12 November 2007, 4:24 pm | New Zealand Business Roundtable
Writing in the Australian Financial Review recently, respected Australian economist Fred Argy noted that Australian living standards, measured by real net national disposable income per head, “have soared by about 16 percent or nearly A$8,000 (NZ$9,500) ... More >>
Do Economists Agree on Anything? Yes!
Monday, 5 November 2007, 4:51 pm | New Zealand Business Roundtable
You sometimes hear the line that if all the world's economists were laid end to end, they wouldn't reach a conclusion. This is something of a cheap shot. More >>
Castalia Report Realistic about Climate Change
Monday, 5 November 2007, 4:37 pm | New Zealand Business Roundtable
“The Castalia report on the government’s proposed emissions trading scheme (ETS) supports the Business Roundtable’s view that the government is seriously underestimating the economic impact of action to achieve large reductions in emissions”, Roger ... More >>
NZBR Perspectives - No. 134 October 2007
Tuesday, 30 October 2007, 10:41 am | New Zealand Business Roundtable
Raking Over the Past By Kevin Donnelly 26 October 2007 As expected, Prime Minister John Howard's intervention in the culture wars, represented by the proposed Australian history guide for years 9 and 10 of high school, has drawn a chorus of criticism ... More >>
NZ Business Roundtable Perspectives No. 133 10/07
Friday, 26 October 2007, 12:13 am | New Zealand Business Roundtable
No. 133 October 2007 Tax Cuts Can Help Fight Inflation By Stephen Kirchner 24 October 2007 Unlike in previous elections, this year’s federal campaign is likely to include only cautious spending and tax-cut promises from the major parties. Both worry that ... More >>
NZ Business RoundTable - Perspectives October 07
Wednesday, 17 October 2007, 10:25 am | New Zealand Business Roundtable
The Secrets of Intangible Wealth By Ronald Bailey 12 October 2007 A Mexican migrant to the U.S. is five times more productive than one who stays home. Why is that? The answer is not the obvious one: This country has more machinery or tools or natural ... More >>
Minister Comments on NZIER Saving Report Incorrect
Tuesday, 16 October 2007, 1:06 pm | New Zealand Business Roundtable
The New Zealand Business Roundtable said today that comments by finance minister Michael Cullen on the report on household saving by the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research reflected a misunderstanding of relevant data. More >>
Business Roundtable Perspectives No. 129 Oct. 07
Friday, 12 October 2007, 12:23 am | New Zealand Business Roundtable
De Minimis By Allen R. Sanderson 11 October 2007 Basic economic course instruction and the discipline's logic begin with some universal "givens": seemingly unlimited human wants pitched against a world of apparent finite resources, and thus ... More >>
