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Nash must be deaf to SME concerns over CGT
Thursday, 7 March 2019, 3:52 pm | New Zealand National Party
It is hard to believe that the Minister for Small Business hasn’t heard from a single small business on their concerns about a Capital Gains Tax, which amounts to a tax on their hard work, National’s Small Business spokesperson Jacqui Dean ... More >>
Bishop pushes for KGB upgrade
Thursday, 7 March 2019, 12:54 pm | New Zealand National Party
MP for Hutt South Chris Bishop is pushing for the NZ Transport Agency to prioritise an upgrade to the Major Drive, SH2 and Kennedy Good Intersection in Lower Hutt. More >>
CGT would take every dollar of Kiwis’ real gains
Wednesday, 6 March 2019, 2:39 pm | New Zealand National Party
The Government’s Tax Working Group has recommended a Capital Gains Tax that doesn’t adjust for inflation and, based on its own assumptions, would be an effective tax rate of 100 per cent on real gains, National’s Finance spokesperson Amy Adams says. More >>
More tax on NZ & Aust. shares will hurt innovators
Tuesday, 5 March 2019, 1:08 pm | New Zealand National Party
The Government’s Tax Working Group would impose one of the most aggressive Capital Gains Tax regimes in the world on Australasian shares, driving more of our businesses, entrepreneurs and innovators overseas, National’s Finance spokesperson Amy Adams ... More >>
Farmers not the cash cow for more Govt taxes
Monday, 4 March 2019, 7:01 pm | New Zealand National Party
Rural Kiwis, from farmers and contractors to retailers, engineers and many other hardworking New Zealanders would be hurt by a Capital Gains Tax and a raft of new taxes aimed at the primary sector, National’s Agriculture spokesperson Nathan Guy ... More >>
If the CGT is bad for Māori, then it’s bad for all Kiwis
Sunday, 3 March 2019, 1:14 pm | New Zealand National Party
If the CGT is bad for Māori, then it’s bad for all Kiwis More >>
CGT a kick in the guts for NZ businesses
Saturday, 2 March 2019, 11:44 am | New Zealand National Party
The proposed Capital Gains Tax would discourage those trying to get a business going and hurt our innovators and entrepreneurs, National’s Finance Spokesperson Amy Adams says. More >>
CGT poses $64k question for ordinary Kiwis
Friday, 1 March 2019, 10:53 am | New Zealand National Party
A Capital Gains Tax would reduce retirement savings for an average earner’s KiwiSaver by $64,000 over the course of their working life, making a nonsense of the Prime Minister’s claim that her tax plans are about fairness, Leader of the Opposition ... More >>
Capital Gains Tax will deter R&D
Thursday, 28 February 2019, 1:21 pm | New Zealand National Party
New figures released today by Statistics New Zealand show strong progress in Research and Development (R&D) spending under the National-led Government’s R&D framework, while also showing what a Capital Gains Tax will put at risk, National’s ... More >>
Riverton Racetrack next in the firing line
Thursday, 28 February 2019, 9:45 am | New Zealand National Party
National MP for Invercargill Sarah Dowie is leading calls to save Riverton Racecourse after the historic course was slated for closure in a recent plan from New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing. More >>
CGT makes it harder for first home buyers & renters
Tuesday, 26 February 2019, 12:09 pm | New Zealand National Party
The Capital Gains Tax will make it harder for first home buyers, driving up rents and making it more difficult to save, National’s Finance spokesperson Amy Adams says. More >>
Proposed education reforms a threat to Southland
Monday, 25 February 2019, 10:29 am | New Zealand National Party
Invercargill MP Sarah Dowie is concerned the formation of Education Hubs could mean the power school boards currently have over the governance of Invercargill and wider Southland school will go to Christchurch and Dunedin. More >>
National ambitious for clean NZ environment
Saturday, 23 February 2019, 10:47 am | New Zealand National Party
National ambitious for clean NZ environment New Zealanders should trust National as much with the environment as they do with the economy, and today’s launch of our first policy discussion document on the environment shows National has practical ... More >>
Clark presiding over record sea of red ink in DHBs
Friday, 22 February 2019, 11:06 am | New Zealand National Party
The Health Minister must be in panic mode this close to the Budget and with every single District Health Board in overdraft, meaning they will struggle to fund any new initiatives without cutting existing services, National’s Health spokesperson ... More >>
Massive tax grab will hammer NZ economy
Thursday, 21 February 2019, 12:04 pm | New Zealand National Party
New Zealand might have been expecting a capital gains tax to be announced today but the full suite of taxes proposed by the Tax Working Group would threaten the very viability of large swathes of the NZ economy, National’s Finance Spokesperson Amy ... More >>
More costs as tax monster unleashed
Thursday, 21 February 2019, 12:02 pm | New Zealand National Party
The Tax Working Group has gone much further than a Capital Gains Tax with a raft of new taxes targeting hard-working New Zealanders, National Leader Simon Bridges says. More >>
Wellbeing budget work coming apart at the seams
Wednesday, 20 February 2019, 6:47 pm | New Zealand National Party
The Treasury Cost Benefit Analysis tool used to assess budget bids contains a significant error meaning wildly different monetary values appear for the same item depending on which order the user chooses to sort the data into, National’s Finance spokesperson ... More >>
Govt allows engineers to exploit CTV loophole
Wednesday, 20 February 2019, 4:19 pm | New Zealand National Party
The Government is compromising public safety and letting down the families and victims of the CTV building in allowing engineers to continue for decades to exploit a legal loophole for fatal design errors, National MP Nick Smith says. “It was an injustice ... More >>
Southland to benefit from consultation–Hipkins still welcome
Wednesday, 20 February 2019, 4:01 pm | New Zealand National Party
Invercargill MP Sarah Dowie is congratulating the Ministry of Education for reconsidering its programme of consultation and sending the review panel to Southland so our community can have its say. “National was informed last week that the consultation review ... More >>
Govt holds up pay equity for part-time teachers
Wednesday, 20 February 2019, 10:33 am | New Zealand National Party
The Equal Pay Amendment Bill risks significantly delaying pay equity for part-time teachers, National’s Education spokesperson Nikki Kaye says. “The transitional provisions of the Bill will put at risk existing pay equity cases that are currently ... More >>
