Labour rules out tax increases, which puts pressure on Joyce's first Budget
The most likely tax relief this year in Stephen Joyce's first budget as finance minister is going to be a shift in those tax brackets to allow for wage inflation.
The Labour Party's pledge on the weekend not to bring in any tax increases, a bid to remove one of the party's negatives, is based on a couple of political and economic presumptions.
One – the most dangerous but most seductive politically – is that people will not mind being pulled into higher
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Labour rules out tax increases, which puts pressure on Joyce's first Budget
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