Wednesday, 1 April 2015, 1:50 pm Press Release: ACT New Zealand
National looks after everyone but taxpayers
Press
release: ACT New Zealand April 1, 2015.
1:30pm
“National is parading its indexation of
welfare payments while refusing to do the same with tax
brackets,” says ACT Leader David Seymour.
“Benefits
were adjusted for inflation today. What about the workers?
Tax brackets should be adjusted too.
“This fiscal year,
a person on the average income will pay another $378 in tax
as inflation pushes them into higher brackets, even if they
have no increase in real spending power. They have already
paid an extra $649 since 2010.
“The average household
has already paid an extra $1036 since 2010, and will pay
$431 more this year.
Taxpayers are today being asked to
fund:
• Government grants for first home buyers
of up to $20,000; • A two-week extension to
paid parental leave; • NZ Superannuation
increases, heralded as growing at twice the rate of
inflation since 2008.
“If the government wants to fund
this by increasing taxes, it should do so openly and
honestly, not through stealth
taxation."
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