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Hickey vs Hide: Should farmland sales attract capital gains tax?

Bernard Hickey says he knows how New Zealand could have prevented farmers racking up $38 billion of debt they now can't service; Rodney Hide thinks it's a daft idea. With special audio feature.

NBR Radio
Mon, 21 Mar 2016

The battle lines were drawn when Bernard Hickey suggested in the Herald on Sunday that farmers are for all intents and purposes farming for taxfree capital gains.

The result, he tells NBR Radio, is that “over the past decade or so, New Zealand dairy farmers collectively have essentially bet $30

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