Tova O'Brien comes up with an interesting idea.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/pol...y-for-tax-cuts
Instead of silly online gambling taxes how about removing all of the religious tax exemptions (and the maori ones too I might add). ;)
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Tova O'Brien comes up with an interesting idea.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/pol...y-for-tax-cuts
Instead of silly online gambling taxes how about removing all of the religious tax exemptions (and the maori ones too I might add). ;)
Sad that the Unions haven't woken up to what the spiralling COL, Interest rates, Rents, Transport costs etc etc
courtesy of Labour's own incompetent policies & direction is doing to their Union members ;)
Perhaps the Unions should been more awake to their members going financially backwards on Labour Policies rather
than ignoring it and instead involving themselves in Political posturing :)
What the Parties are pulling in in donations clearly suggests that large sectors of the Country are prepared to pay good money to help see the current hopeless Govt gone for good on their recent dismal performance ;)
Lab/Green asleep at the wheel again .. 6 years on rather chasing Landlords, Dumb ideas like Tech Sector Micro Taxes, confusing themselves on Supermarkets, playing with Potholes.. or perhaps they didn't want offside with all the religious outfits & charities that would otherwise come bashing on Robbo's door for funding instead ? ;)
No Govt would want to offside with Religious Organisations - that would be like Labour well and truly signing their early exit passes on top of already abismal plummeting support levels that Lab/Green are now seeing ..
Your mates Lab/Green dug a large hole -- now they get to be made to lie in it - very simple
A large slice of NZ has become totally sick and tired of the Lab/Green blight on what was once a far more vibrant positive place and all deserve considerably better than what the current bunch of Lab/Green losers have orchestrated :)
Our Left wing media have a real cheek. The red New Zealand Herald want me to subscribe to their ‘Premium’ service for a $1 a week for the first 8 weeks, this so I can have the privilege of accessing pro-Labour cartoons by (Australian) cartoonist Rod Emmerson & columns by left wing activist Simon Wilson - who always seems to have a bee in his bonnet about NZ’s miniscule (0.17%) contribution to global emissions.
Over at Stuff they are giving plenty of oxygen to a claim that National has a $130 million dollar hole in its tax plan. Robbo’s entire financial management of this country is one gigantic fiscal hole. Labour claims their plans are always ‘fully costed’, so I guess monumental waste and an extraordinary borrowing rate are ‘fully costed’ and were always part of their plan. Well if that’s true I don’t care much for their ‘fully costed’ plan.
National said they were not the party of new & higher taxes.
Then they announce a series of new taxes.
National manage to announce that they will remove the Regional Fuel Tax in Auckland because it is only used for Light Rail - wrong.
Then they say that they can do this because there is lots of money in the bank unused - wrong, it is earmarked for projects in Auckland (and not light rail) that Auckland say they need.
Brown is quite right - remove it but supply the money some other way. No mention from National of this - smoke and mirrors again.
This cruel regional fuel tax has been on place for years and years and money languishes in a bank account while hard-working Aucklanders struggle with a ‘cost of living’ crisis. It is simply not acceptable. I don’t accept that people should have to pay extra levies just because they live in certain parts of the country. Should Hawkes Bay residents have to pay a ‘Hawkes Bay Reconstruction Tax’ simply because they live where they live? I don’t think so.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politi...FZ6LVRC26UW5I/
‘More than $300m collected in Auckland Regional Fuel Tax remains unspent, nearly half of the $700m collected.
From the day the tax was brought in on July 1, 2018, to the end of March 2023, it has collected $703.4m, of that, only $375m was spent, leaving $327 unspent.
The tax was brought in by Labour to help fund ATAP commitments.
Big winners include the Eastern Busway which has spent $246m over the period, road safety improvements which spent $239.2m and the Downtown Ferry Terminal redevelopment, which spent $136m.
National’s Transport spokesman Simeon Brown said it was “a bit ridiculous that they still seem to be spending just over half of every dollar they take in”.
“Aucklanders are being fleeced by Labour’s Regional Fuel Tax which Labour imposed on Auckland, which was meant to deliver transport projects, but which almost half of it’s just simply sitting in a bank account at Auckland Council,” Brown said.’
Brown needs to make cuts to the bloated council staff numbers before he asks hard-working Aucklanders to pony up more $$$$.
If the left wing council won’t make necessary cuts now, then I guess taking away the ‘regional fuel tax’ boondoggle will force their hand soon enough.