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Columns – werewolf
Oct 28, 2024 — September 26, 2024 0. Oyez oyez, CEO Antonia Watson, CEO of the biggest bank in New Zealand has come out in favour of a capital gains tax! Actually, this is not a daring new idea. Over the past three decades the IMF, the World Bank, the expert Tax Working Group and most mainstream economists have all treated our lack of a capital gains tax as a ...
On The Government’s Bizarre Hostility To A Capital Gains Tax
Footnote: On RNZ this morning, Willis tried to justify her hostility to a capital gains tax – because of the impact a CGT would have on small business owners who (cue violins) have worked hard all their lives and just want a little tax free nest egg when they retire. Besides, Willis added, they have paid other taxes all their lives.
Gordon Campbell On Why Political Consensus Is SO Divisive
Sep 5, 2024 — Gordon Campbell On Why Political Consensus Is SO Divisive. September 16, 2024 Columns, Gordon Campbell 0. 05 Sept, 2024. Around the halls of Parliament in Wellington, displays of bi-partisan agreement are reserved for wars, sporting triumphs or the deaths of monarchs. That’s why the coalition government’s sudden enthusiasm for a bi-partisan ...
Blog – werewolf
Oct 28, 2024 — September 26, 2024 0. Oyez oyez, CEO Antonia Watson, CEO of the biggest bank in New Zealand has come out in favour of a capital gains tax! Actually, this is not a daring new idea. Over the past three decades the IMF, the World Bank, the expert Tax Working Group and most mainstream economists have all treated our lack of a capital gains tax as a ...
Gordon Campbell on The Coalition’s Fast-tracked Speed Dates …
Oct 7, 2024 — The fast track wish-list is comprised of 149 housing, infrastructure, aquaculture, irrigation, transport and mining/quarrying projects. On the evidence, the tough guys in Cabinet still seem to be helplessly, hopelessly infatuated with property developers. As Thomas Coughlan pointed out in the NZ Herald:
Gordon Campbell on New Zealand’s selective morality on Gaza
Oct 20, 2023 — H ere’s the sound of MFAT blowing its own trumpet as it celebrated the 25th anniversary of our genuinely heroic role in alerting the international community to the Rwanda genocide:. Calling for the Council to recognise that genocide was being perpetrated against the Tutsi population, and urging the UN to strengthen its peacekeeping measures at a time when others looked to disengage from ...
Gordon Campbell On Luxon And Seymour’s Good Cop/Bad Cop …
September 12, 2024 Columns, Gordon Campbell 0. This past week has seen Wellington’s ruling coalition of chaos in fully dysfunctional mode. In the last six days, the ACT Party and New Zealand First have had two strikingly different responses to two strikingly similar problems in two key sectors of the economy: supermarkets and energy companies.
Gordon Campbell on the Three Strikes cycle of failure
Oct 22, 2024 — Columns. , Gordon Campbell. 0. We all know the “tough on crime” approach is only a stop gap measure at best, and that a justice model based on incarceration doesn’t work. Our prisons are already overcrowded and under-staffed. More often than not, they function as training centres for young offenders, and as sites for gang recruitment.
On New Zealand’s Timid Reluctance To Tax The Rich – werewolf
Sep 19, 2024 — On income alone they would be taxed at 33%. In comparable OECD countries, the headline rates range between 37% and 55%. In addition, while New Zealand (and Belgium) lack a capital gains tax, in those other OECD countries the tax on capital gains ranged between 17% and 42%. For those earning half their income from salary and half from capital ...