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Proposed rate of CGT one of the most penal in world
Thursday, 21 February 2019, 1:21 pm | The New Zealand Initiative
Tax Working Group’s proposed rate of capital gains tax one of the most penal in the world More >>
Decisive action on red tape is the answer to housing issue
Tuesday, 22 January 2019, 3:21 pm | The New Zealand Initiative
Wellington (22 January 2019): Decisive government action to free up the supply of land for housing and to reduce construction costs across the board is the only viable remedy for New Zealand’s housing affordability problem. More >>
NZ Super affordable, but pension age should rise
Tuesday, 4 December 2018, 9:12 am | The New Zealand Initiative
New Zealand’s universal pension system is worth celebrating but could do with small tweaks to the model as the population ages, finds a new report titled Embracing a Super model: The superannuation sky is not falling , which was released by think ... More >>
Fair Pay Agreements too risky to rush
Friday, 21 September 2018, 1:56 pm | The New Zealand Initiative
Wellington (21 September 2018): The New Zealand Initiative warned today that government must heed Treasury’s warnings about rushing Fair Pay Agreements. More >>
Stephen Jennings joins the NZ Initiative board
Thursday, 20 September 2018, 10:18 am | The New Zealand Initiative
Wellington (20 September 2018): The New Zealand Initiative welcomes entrepreneur Stephen Jennings, CEO and Founder of Africa’s largest urban development company, Rendeavour, onto its Board of Directors. More >>
Evidence of huge government waste
Tuesday, 18 September 2018, 8:40 am | The New Zealand Initiative
Wellington (18 September 2018): “Government is achieving poor outcomes for New Zealanders relative to the resources it is using.” More >>
Smokeless products are key to NZ’s smoke-free future
Thursday, 31 May 2018, 9:53 am | The New Zealand Initiative
Wellington (30 May 2018): The New Zealand Initiative is celebrating World Smokefree Day (Thursday 31 May) as an opportunity to take a more compassionate approach to tobacco control policy. More >>
New Zealand Initiative welcomes new fiscal watchdog
Thursday, 17 May 2018, 4:18 pm | The New Zealand Initiative
Wellington (17 May 2018): The New Zealand Initiative applauds today’s Budget 2018 announcement of an independent fiscal institution. Associate Finance Minister James Shaw announced a new independent body to assess government forecasts and cost political ... More >>
Grexit the only viable option for Greece
Monday, 29 June 2015, 1:23 pm | The New Zealand Initiative
Wellington (29 June 2015): After five years of unsuccessful attempts to “save” Greece and keep it in the Eurozone, the dramatic events of the past days show that this strategy has failed disastrously. The country’s best hope is for a fresh start ... More >>
Inequality falling despite rising headlines
Friday, 26 June 2015, 1:21 pm | The New Zealand Initiative
Wellington (26 June 2015): The country needs to change its tune on inequality, according to The New Zealand Initiative, with a recently published report by Treasury showing that the gap between rich and poor has been stable or falling over the past 20 years. ... More >>
Productivity Commission report builds case for reform
Thursday, 18 June 2015, 11:11 am | The New Zealand Initiative
Wellington (17 June 2015): The Productivity Commission’s latest report on how overly tight land supply feeds the housing affordability crisis is a pressing reminder of why the planning system and local government funding arrangements need reform, ... More >>
OECD housing alarm must be heeded
Wednesday, 10 June 2015, 10:48 am | The New Zealand Initiative
Wellington (10 June 2015): The OECD’s recent report on New Zealand has highlighted the urgent need to untangle the Resource Management Act (RMA), which has snared the housing marketing in a spiral of ever-rising prices, according to The New Zealand ... More >>
$70m maths teaching methods failing kids
Thursday, 4 June 2015, 4:48 pm | The New Zealand Initiative
• Education Minister Hon Hekia Parata to speak at launch of new report on maths education More >>
Government commended for progress on social bonds
Monday, 1 June 2015, 1:21 pm | The New Zealand Initiative
Wellington (1 June 2015): The Government should be commended for the introduction of a social bond in the mental health sector, as announced today by Finance Minister Bill English and Minister of Health Jonathan Coleman. It is the first of four social ... More >>
Charity rules need a helping hand
Monday, 18 May 2015, 10:12 am | The New Zealand Initiative
Wellington (18 May 2015): Government needs to set clearer rules, provide greater transparency and remove the tax advantage enjoyed by for-profit arms of charity groups if it wants to promote the work of the charitable sector, according to The New Zealand ... More >>
New tools needed to deliver $34b in social services
Wednesday, 13 May 2015, 9:36 am | The New Zealand Initiative
Wellington (13 May 2015): Ahead of next week’s budget, The New Zealand Initiative is calling on government to adopt new ways of delivering social services that increase accountability on the billions spent on these programmes. That is one of the main ... More >>
Social service reform should develop Social Impact Bonds
Wednesday, 29 April 2015, 11:11 am | The New Zealand Initiative
The New Zealand Initiative is calling the Productivity Commission’s draft report on effective social services a useful contribution to the debate on how government delivers more efficient services, as greater accountability is needed. Jenesa Jeram, ... More >>
Decile Funding Review Must Consider Teacher Quality
Thursday, 16 April 2015, 2:21 pm | The New Zealand Initiative
The New Zealand Initiative has welcomed a review of the controversial decile funding system for schools, reported by the Sunday Star Times last weekend. Minister of Education Hekia Parata announced the government will review how it targets educational resources. More >>
Central government is the RMA’s weakest link
Monday, 23 March 2015, 8:53 am | The New Zealand Initiative
Wellington (23 March 2015): Central government needs to fulfil its long-neglected Resource Management Act obligations if it wants to boost mining activity and free communities from the stifling regulations that are choking off economic development ... More >>
Online GST could backfire on economy
Friday, 20 March 2015, 9:06 am | The New Zealand Initiative
Wellington (20 March 2015): Applying GST on low-value imports could easily backfire and end up doing more harm than good for the economy, The New Zealand Initiative warned today. More >>
