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Financial Transactions Tax to stop asset sales

Friday, 28 January 2011, 12:29 pm | Tax Justice Campaign

The Tax Justice Campaign says changes to the tax system could be the key to stopping privatization of New Zealand's public assets. Tax Justice Campaign spokesperson Kay Murray says the solution to the so-called debt crisis is not to sell the few remaining ... More >>

What do we want for Xmas? GST off food!

Monday, 13 December 2010, 9:04 am | Tax Justice Campaign

What do we want for Xmas? GST off food! On the weekend before Christmas, Tax Justice campaigners will be out collecting signatures for a petition calling on GST to be taken off food. More >>

What do we want for Xmas? GST off food!

Sunday, 12 December 2010, 1:16 pm | Tax Justice Campaign

What do we want for Xmas? GST off food! On the weekend before Christmas, Tax Justice campaigners will be out collecting signatures for a petition calling on GST to be taken off food. More >>

Tax Justice will be an election issue in 2011

Monday, 18 October 2010, 4:57 pm | Tax Justice Campaign

“Tax all forms of income equally no matter how that income is earned” — that was the wording contained in a remit at the Labour Party conference over the weekend (see ‘Quiet comeback for tax on wealth’, NZ Herald, 18 Oct, http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10681297). More >>

Tax Justice campaign hits the streets

Friday, 1 October 2010, 10:06 am | Tax Justice Campaign

Tax Justice activists will be hitting the streets over the next few days collecting signatures for a parliamentary petition that calls for GST to be removed from food and a tax placed on financial speculation. More >>

10,000 signatures for Tax Justice petition

Thursday, 30 September 2010, 11:41 am | Tax Justice Campaign

"We've set ourselves the ambitious target of 10,000 signatures in two days," says Vaughan Gunson, Tax Justice campaign coordinator. "It's ambitious, but we're going to give it a shot." More >>

GST Claim Is The Biggest Lie

Tuesday, 28 September 2010, 11:13 am | Tax Justice Campaign

“John Key has accused the Labour Party of lying in their pamphlet on National’s GST hike, but Mr Key is hardly squeaky clean,” says Vaughan Gunson, Tax Justice campaign coordinator. More >>

Tax cuts will be wiped out by food price bubble

Monday, 27 September 2010, 11:35 am | Tax Justice Campaign

“There’s concern worldwide that another global food crisis is upon us,” says Vaughan Gunson, Tax Justice campaign coordinator. “The price of food is set to go through the roof, like it did in 2008.” More >>

Labour’s new GST policy step in right direction

Monday, 27 September 2010, 11:18 am | Tax Justice Campaign

“Labour is taking a step in the right direction if they're going to campaign for the removal of GST from fresh fruit and vegetables,” says Vaughan Gunson, Tax Justice campaign coordinator. More >>

Campaign to remove GST from food continues

Thursday, 9 September 2010, 3:43 pm | Tax Justice Campaign

“By voting down Maori Party MP Rahui Katene’s bill to remove GST from healthy food, National, ACT and United Future have shown themselves to be offside with grassroots sentiment,” says Vaughan Gunson, Tax Justice campaign coordinator. “Most New ... More >>

NZ's Tax System Unhealthy Says Justice Campaign

Monday, 19 July 2010, 9:04 am | Tax Justice Campaign

The debate around Rahui Katene’s private members bill to remove GST from healthy food needs to be broadened. That’s the message from Tax Justice campaigners. More >>

 

 
 
 
 
 

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