Seymour calls for inflation indexed tax rates

The Act leader will get a sympathetic hearing: Bill English recently called inflation “the politician and the tax gatherer's friend, and the saver's enemy.”

Rob Hosking
Fri, 20 Mar 2015

Act leader David Seymour is pushing for tax brackets to be indexed to inflation.

Such a move would eliminate the ally of previous high taxing finance ministers like Michael Cullen, Sir Robert Muldoon and Walter Nash. The Epsom MP yesterday questioned whether the government should take the

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