Oyez oyez, CEO Antonia Watson, CEO of the biggest bank in New Zealand has come out in favour of a capital gains tax! Actually, this is not a daring new idea. Over the past three decades the IMF, the World Bank, the expert Tax Working Group and most mainstream economists have all treated our lack of a capital gains tax as a globally unusual flaw in our tax system, and harmful to this country’s prosperity.
Work-in-the-office mandates? Hell yes, Finance Minister Nicola Willis is all for them. Given half the chance, she believes, “some people but not all” will just skive off, otherwise. Willis is happy to barge in and tell departmental heads how …
“Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to […]
Common sense tells us that power in the workplace is not evenly divided. That’s one reason why the ability to bargain collectively is such an […]
05 Sept, 2024 Around the halls of Parliament in Wellington, displays of bi-partisan agreement are reserved for wars, sporting triumphs or the deaths of monarchs. […]
02 Sept, 2024 As far as the rest of the country is concerned,Wellington rarely has a Goldilocks moment. Central government is either too involved in […]
30 August, 2024 The Black Caps are to play a test match against Afghanistan between September 9-13, in India. So far, the biggest news story […]
This past week has seen Wellington’s ruling coalition of chaos in fully dysfunctional mode. In the last six days, the ACT Party and New Zealand […]
Like the arms race, the funding of new cancer drugs is an endless upwards spiral. First though, let’s have the good news. Yesterday, the Phamac […]
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