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A land tax just for foreigners? Come on John, you’re better than this

Gareth MorganApril 27, 2016Economics

John Key has floated the idea of an annual land tax on foreign buyers of residential real estate as one response to the influx of money into the Auckland market particularly. Land tax is part of one of the biggest … Read More

Climate Cheating a new low for New Zealand’s Integrity

Gareth MorganApril 26, 2016Environment

The new Minister for Climate Change, Paula Bennett has emphatically demonstrated her selective ethics while in New York signing the Paris Accord on Climate Change. The issue she inherits is that New Zealand under the governance of Tim Groser cheated … Read More

The Biggest Tax Dodge of Them All

Gareth MorganApril 17, 2016Tax and Welfare

Much of the kerfuffle globally around tax dodging pertains to the “rich” whoever they are – not paying their fair share. The more truth there is to this perception, the heavier the burden on those who do pay their full … Read More

Taxing Wealth & Property – What Works? A Morgan Foundation Report

Gareth MorganApril 16, 2016Tax and Welfare

Today on The Nation, Gareth released a new report which reviews the taxation of wealth and property around the world. You can watch the interview here. Currently in NZ half the top 200 wealthiest people don’t pay the top rate … Read More

Wellington SCPA and Morgan Foundation support microchipping cats

Gareth MorganApril 14, 2016Environment

Wellington City Council (WCC) is proposing some changes to the Animal Bylaw, including microchipping cats and requiring owners to ask for permission to own more than a set number of cats. At moments like this it is remarkable to note … Read More

Can Obese People Really Be Considered “Poor”?

Gareth MorganApril 1, 2016Uncategorized

We know that having a lower income means you are far more likely to be obese -particularly the children of low income families. A corporate-funded New Zealand think tank has published a report which questions whether the word “poverty” is … Read More

Rodney Hide’s arguments against corporate tax are dubious and naive

Gareth MorganMarch 31, 2016Tax and Welfare

Lately Rodney Hide has informed us that multinationals equilibrate their after-tax returns across all the markets they operate in. So if one country (NZ for example) hikes up company taxes then the multinationals simply invest elsewhere where the after-tax return … Read More

Taxpayers Union Critique of the UBI just bonkers – again

Gareth MorganMarch 29, 2016Uncategorized

Today the Taxpayers Union – a lobby group that advocates minimal tax and State-provided education, health and social services – has released a report suggesting that the Unconditional Basic Income (UBI) will result in sky high tax rates and leave … Read More

NZIER Completes Independent Review of ‘Big Kahuna’ Proposal

Gareth MorganMarch 28, 2016Economics, Tax and Welfare

In 2011 Gareth Morgan and Susan Guthrie published The Big Kahuna: Turning Tax and Welfare on its Head. “We reviewed New Zealand’s tax and welfare systems together, and found that both were broken and in need of complete overhaul,” says … Read More

The National Party’s New Flag

Gareth MorganMarch 25, 2016Treaty

43% of those who voted in the flag referendum supported the PM’s choice, 56% opposed. The electorates with the strongest support for his fern was Tamaki and Selwyn at 52%. These two electorates were also the highest polling National electorates … Read More