income tax Archive

  • frog

    12 Days of Christmas wraps up - by frog



    Today is Day 12 of our mini ‘Twelve Days of Christmas’ campaign. Each day, Metiria and Catherine have highlighted issues relating to inequality and child wellbeing, and presented Green solutions to those issues. Check it out day by day: Day 1 – Introduction Day 2 – Child poverty Day 3 – Disability Day 4 – [...] read more
    December 21, 2010 12:13 pm - 10 Comments
  • frog

    Dunne and dumber: Income splitting back on the agenda - by frog



    Today, the Eternal Minister of Revenue, Peter Dunne, is scheduled to release details of his regressive and discriminatory income splitting tax Bill. Let’s hope National sees sense and promptly consigns this stupid idea to the dustbin of legislative history where it rightly belongs. read more
    August 16, 2010 9:03 am - 66 Comments
  • Metiria Turei

    Inequality in Aotearoa: an idea whose time has come - by Metiria Turei



    A major feature of the UK election campaign whose results we’ve all been hanging off (and by the way why would we even contemplate a return to FPP given the grossly disproportionate result it’s produced over there?) was the importance of inequality. One of the Liberal Democrats’ key campaign planks was a tax-free threshold of [...] read more
    May 12, 2010 4:24 pm - 48 Comments
  • frog

    Winston turns Green - by frog



    Nice work by Winston adopting this longstanding Green policy from 2002 to remove all income tax on the first $5000 of income, for everyone: Mr Peters said the party also wanted the first $5200 of income tax-free. That would help the low paid and part-time workers, but also pensioners, who pay tax on their superannuation. [...] read more
    May 21, 2008 2:23 pm - 10 Comments
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    Health, education, sustainability before tax cuts - by frog



    National and Labour have already signalled that they want to make tax cuts a big part of this year’s elections. And, as we know, more tax cuts mean less money to spend (or save), so let’s have one more quote from the Picnic over the weekend: Let me make it quite clear: if the point [...] read more
    January 22, 2008 4:38 pm - 32 Comments