Day 2 Reaction: National’s Tax Policy: Individuals Win, Businesses Lose

The National Party’s eagerly awaited tax policy should not disappoint the average voter given the current economic climate, according to Deloitte’s managing tax partner Thomas Pippos. More >>

ALSO:

• NZ Govt - Business knows Nat’s R&D cuts disaster for NZ
• NZ Govt - Nats take $1.5 billion from science system
• NZ Govt - All KiwiSavers worse off under National
• NZ Govt - Key needs to answer when, how package changed
• NZ Govt - Nats' package an assault on savings and investment
• National - Key Notes 40: National's Economic Management Plan
• National - Cullen plays petty politics as economy falters
• National - Helen Clark has no new answers to turbulence
• Deloitte - National’s Tax Policy: Winners And Losers
• NZ Council of Christian Social Services - How Will Tax Cuts Help Children In Lowest Incomes
• Council of Trade Unions - National’s KiwiSaver cuts double what is reported
• Manufacturers and Exporters Association - Export led recovery – maybe not
• NZ Contractors' Federation - National’s infrastructure investment about turn
• Wellington Regional Chamber of Commerce - R&D Tax Credits may not be the best
• Association of Salaried Medical Specialists - Key’s Misleading Claims On Hospital Productivity

Gordon Campbell: Key's Tax Cuts Peel Back Cullen's Savings

The National Party has billed this tax package release as an “economic management plan,” which could land them in truth-in-advertising trouble with the Consumers Institute. The reality is far more modest. What we got yesterday was a ‘me too / and raise you some’ set of tax breaks that will be paid for by cuts to the Kiwisaver scheme, by scrapping private sector research and development, and by abolishing the remaining $265 million of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s modernization plans. More >>

ALSO:

• National - Economic plan: A tax package for the times
• National - Tax remains an important part of economic plan
National - Economic plan: Superannuitants get a boost
• National - Economic plan: Enduring, affordable KiwiSaver
• National - Economic plan: No added borrowing, no service cuts
• National - Key: National’s Economic Management Plan
• National - Economic plan: Discipline, growth & security
• NZ Govt - New secondary tax rate announced
• Progressive Party - Ads attacks plan for tax increase on business
• ACT - Hide Slams Key's Economic Policy
• United Future - UF tax package still the best on offer
• NZ First - What Lurks Behind The Tax Cuts Mr Key?
• Greens - Nat's cuts will increase debt, poverty
• EMA - Expansionary tax package applauded for recession
• Council of Trade Unions - Axing KiwiSaver to pay for tax cuts
• Tony Milne - Trick or treat?
• Public Service Association - PSA fears deep job cuts from National tax policy
• Wellington Regional Chamber of Commerce - National’s Tax Cuts are a Good Start
• EPMU - Top earners win, workers and economy lose
• NZEI - National’s Lack Of Education Policy And Commitment
• Manufacturers and Exporters Association - One step forward, two steps back
• Service And Food Workers Union - National Tax Policy Punishes Low-Income Workers
• New Zealand Alliance Party - Alliance: Nat's tax cut plan is all upside down
• National Distribution Union - What about the Battlers?
• NZEI - National's Plans Will Leave Kiwisaver Anaemic
• PPTA - PPTA fears for future of education under National

Earlier:

• Gordon Campbell - Post PREFU Preview Of National’s Tax Cuts
• Scoop Full Coverage - The 2008 PREFU
• ACT - Crisis Is An Opportunity

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