Pinning Robertson Would Be Easier if Nats Actually Cut Tax
Wednesday, 6 December 2017, 3:39 pm Press Release: ACT New Zealand
Pinning Robertson Would Be Easier if Nats Actually Cut Tax
“National's Finance Spokesman, Steven Joyce, fired
a very frustrated opening salvo today in the coming battle
over taxes,” according to ACT’s David Seymour.
“Mr Joyce couldn’t pin Mr Robertson because he is
wrong that an earner on the average wage will be $1,060 per
year worse off on April Fools’ Day 2018, and Mr Robertson
is correct that an average earner without kids will pay the
same tax rates as they do today.
“If Mr Joyce wanted
to make the Government raise taxes, he should have cut them
instead of just talking about cutting them when he was in
power.
“Mr Joyce is correct that taxpayers will not
notice when the Government legislates away the promised 2018
tax cuts under urgency in the dying weeks of this year, but
it is too late for that. “As is so often the case with the
fifth National Government, the tragedy is not that is lost
power, but that it failed to use the power it had,” says
Mr Seymour.
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