The Alliance will not agree to
increasing taxes on low and middle income New Zealanders and
cutting taxes for the affluent as advocated in the Tax
Review, Alliance leader Jim Anderton said.
The final
report of the Review was released today.
“There is no
truth in the suggestion that poor people have too much money
and rich people don’t have enough. We won’t be signing up to
any flattening of the tax scales.
“But while the Alliance
won’t accept that recommendation, I welcome the Review’s
point that decisions about tax and spending are related.
Anyone who wants to cut taxes is obliged to say what
spending they will cut,” Jim Anderton said.
The Review’s
recommendations on other taxes, including wealth taxes,
financial transactions taxes and carbon taxes would be
carefully studied in the preparation of new policies for the
next general
election.
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