On The Government’s Bizarre Hostility To A Capital Gains Tax
WEB3 hours ago · 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.
On New Zealand’s Timid Reluctance To Tax The Rich – werewolf
WEB3 hours ago · 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 ...
Gordon Campbell On Nicola Willis’ Perverse Hostility To Working …
WEB3 hours ago · It is also healthier. The pandemic kick-started the work- from- home model, and although we like to think and act as if Covid doesn’t exist anymore, the virus hasn’t actually gone away. Last week there were 1,012 reported cases of Covid infection and 13 deaths of people “with Covid” even though the ability to attribute causality for ...
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Gordon Campbell On Funding New Drugs, And Governing In Bad …
WEB4 hours ago · Like the arms race, the funding of new cancer drugs is an endless upwards spiral. First though, let’s have the good news. Yesterday, the Phamac office in Wellington announced that from October 1st, the expensive cancer drug Keytruda will be made available to eligible people with advanced triple-negative breast cancer, head and neck cancer, colorectal cancer, bladder cancer, and Hodgkin lymphoma.
Gordon Campbell On Luxon And Seymour’s Good Cop/Bad Cop …
WEB4 hours ago · 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 …
Gordon Campbell On Why Political Consensus Is SO Divisive
WEB4 hours ago · 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 …
Gordon Campbell On Why Workers Get Treated As Disposable
WEBThe workplace figures on health and safety are pretty grim: As well as the 70 people who die at work each year, an estimated 750 to 900 die from work-related diseases such as cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. According to a recent report from WorkSafe New Zealand, 20 people died from work-related suicides in 2020.
Gordon Campbell on Labour’s last stand – werewolf
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Gordon Campbell on National’s tax cuts – werewolf
WEBAug 31, 2023 · S ince tax cuts are never a free lunch, collecting the revenue to pay for them was always going to be the credibility test of National’s tax cuts package. For that reason, most people would have assumed Inland Revenue would be included alongside Defence, Corrections, Oranga Tamariki, Te Whatu Ora etc. on the list of government departments and state agencies exempt from having to deliver the ...