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Cullen’s Tax Working Group: High on politics of envy, low on economic literacy

Gareth MorganMarch 13, 2019Tax and Welfare

Tax Working Group head, Michael Cullen, asserts that the capital gains tax (CGT) is best described as a “tax on capital income”. Since when have capital gains been income? Show me any country’s national income accounts that include them in … Read More

Why Does No-one Understand Social Investment? Not Even Bill English

Jess Berentson-ShawSeptember 6, 2017Tax and Welfare, Uncategorized

Its confusing, this Social Investment business, yet sometimes it sounds so very simple. For example Bill English made it sound very simple in the leaders debate when he said “…we will go to the social investment ball here [for dealing … Read More

Is Charitable Giving the Alternative to a Wealth Tax in New Zealand?

Jess Berentson-ShawAugust 9, 2017Tax and Welfare

Recently a Fairfax journalist asked me, in my capacity as head of research at The Morgan Foundation about the annual rich list. As a public policy think tank, we have done quite a bit of research on tax policy. I … Read More

Our Low Bar for Household Economic Wellbeing Needs a Serious Rethink

Jess Berentson-ShawJuly 27, 2017Tax and Welfare

Every year the Ministry of Social Development (MSD) using data collected by Statistics New Zealand reports on how New Zealand households are doing economically. We get a raft of data on household income and material wellbeing. Bryan Perry is the … Read More

Failure looks like social policy that makes life harder for people

Jess Berentson-ShawJuly 19, 2017Tax and Welfare

With the discussion we are having about social policy at the moment I thought it would be good to discuss the science of what happens to anyone who lives on a low income, especially over any prolonged period of time, … Read More

When Good Intentions Are Not Enough: Smart Investment in Families Needs to Look To a Thriving Future for All.

Jess Berentson-ShawMay 4, 2017Tax and Welfare

As part of the pre budget announcements the Government has allocated $321million to a “social investment package” for vulnerable families and children. There are 14 initiatives in the package, and $69 million over four years, will be for “a national … Read More

Beware! Personal Data Grab for Funding is Based on Dreadful Policy Design

Jess Berentson-ShawApril 10, 2017Tax and Welfare

The Privacy Commissioner is not mincing words on the issue of requiring social service providers to give citizens personal data to MSD in exchange for funding contracts. Words like “insufficient consideration to unintended consequences”, “Insufficient consideration of alternative means”, “Real … Read More

A Simple Two-Step Plan to Ensure the Oranga Tamariki Works for Children & Families

Jess Berentson-ShawApril 3, 2017Tax and Welfare

Last week was the official reinvention of Children, Young Person and their Families Service (CYFS). With the creation of Oranga Tamariki (also poorly named the Ministry for Vulnerable Children) the Prime Minster has said the Government is ” strongly committed … Read More

Don’t Whack Them Mate. It Actually Makes Youth Crime Worse

Jess Berentson-ShawMarch 20, 2017Tax and Welfare

The chair of the National Party’s Kaikohe branch, Alan Price, has advocated for physical punishment as a solution to some pretty grim stuff that Northland has to put up with. Northland is a low-income area in New Zealand. It has … Read More

6 Things Governments Could Invest in that Actually Work (or how to stop throwing money down the loo)

Jess Berentson-ShawMarch 13, 2017Tax and Welfare

No single group operating in the policy space (or politics) owns fiscal responsibility as an idea. Rather fiscal responsibility is something all Governments are concerned about (in fact legally they have to be as we have an act that covers … Read More

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