Is that a tax boost in your pocket? | Raw Politics | Newsroom
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
- The Raw Politics podcast on whether Nicola Willis can pull out a winning Budget next week - and whether your pocket will feel any happier.
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National promised a “back pocket boost” when it unveiled a tax package before the election, and now in Government in tough economic times its Budget next week will sort the easy promises from reality.
The tax bracket changes and other in-work and family payment adjustments might need to land with a thump rather than a flutter for hard-pressed Kiwi households - but that isn’t easy to achieve.
The Raw Politics panel this week, Newsroom senior political writer Marc Daalder, politics and business writer Emma Hatton and co-editor Tim Murphy, look ahead to a Budget that will put the confident Finance Minister Nicola Willis and her new Labour counterpart Barbara Edmond to the test.
The panel weighs the gains and losses from the mass layoffs in the public service as the coalition parties make good on their promise to cut what they called a bloated sector. Do back-office cuts really allow those in the front line to keep doing their jobs effectively? The example of the corporate world would suggest not.
Our reader question asks why the National-led Government axed the first home grant suddenly (spooked by a Newshub scoop that it was going). And the panel discusses former PM Bill English’s radical proposals to change our public housing landscape. The bottom line is we won’t have as many state houses, or as much Crown-owned housing land after this process is underway.
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Not surprising what government does. Its for the rich by the rich. I've learned nothing from this podcast. Other than making pathetic excuses for the government. Chris Bishop didn't bother about inflation when they gave tax cuts for rich home investors. Now, scrap the first home buyer grant. That decision is a very easy one for him.
They're cutting expenses and giving money back to ratepayers. This isn't in any way, "for the rich by the rich". If anyone was that, it was the last government with their elitist concerns.
Lets get real, these public servants who are being made redundant are not going to end up on the benefit. They are highly qualified and experienced people and would probably be the impetus to move to greener pastures in Australia
You are furthering the stereotype Wellington civil servants as high paid fat cats. This affects everyone throughout the country. Nurses, teachers, police are all public servants. We are all feeling the tric kledown effect
No worries everyone heading for Australia.
Can you explain how Kainga Ora has debt, please?
By not paying for what they buy or repay money that they borrowed. That they are in debt is not in doubt. Searching for "kainga ora debt" brought forth hundreds of results.