Election Battle Lines Drawn Over NZ Economy

Gareth MorganEconomics, Tax and Welfare

Last Monday’s televised leaders’ debate demonstrated that the greatest difference between the main protagonists for government are over economic policy. Election Battle Lines Drawn Over NZ Economy was last modified: December 15th, 2015 by Gareth Morgan

Why the World Wants to Tax the Rich

Gareth MorganTax and Welfare

The Economist magazine leads its latest issue with its prescription of how to increase tax of the rich. At last we have arrived at the point where the most conservative proponents of market economics admit that the past 30 years, … Read More

Gareth Morgan’s Big Tax Idea

AndrewTax and Welfare

When Gareth Morgan was a young student living in a bus, he had an idea that he thought would make him a millionaire. “My sister-in-law said: ‘Oh Gareth, you spend so much time on computers and numbers. You’d think you … Read More

UK Riots Wake-up Call for New Zealand

Gareth MorganTax and Welfare

Gareth Morgan and Susan Guthrie, Authors of The Big Kahuna Last week the British division of Unicef released a report on child wellbeing that put some of the blame for the street riots down to disenfranchised or alienated children of middle … Read More

Tax Revamp Not About Pulling Rich Down

Gareth MorganTax and Welfare

Gareth Morgan and Susan Guthrie, Authors of The Big Kahuna If website traffic is anything to go by, our previous articles on the widening income gap in New Zealand, and the type of reform needed to address it, have generated a … Read More

Big Kahuna Critics Fall Into a Trap

Gareth MorganTax and Welfare

Gareth Morgan and Susan Guthrie, Authors of The Big Kahuna We’re pleased that Damien Grant read The Big Kahuna and found it worth the price of admission. And we welcome debate about the proposals we tabled in that book. But we … Read More

Rot at Centre of Modern Economics

Gareth MorganTax and Welfare

Once it was each man for himself and the “deserving poor” relied on private charity. That was long after Plato had espoused the morality of taxation, saying, [quote align=”center” color=”#999999″]When there is an income tax, the just man will pay … Read More