National drenched social media in adverts against app tax, now implementing app tax

While left wing Middle Class Activists were alienating with their woke dogma and Chippy did everything to lose the election with his pathetic and spineless policy platform, the right cleverly manipulated culture war fears the woke had generated and used social media as a brainwashing tool.

National ran huge social media advertising campaign called ‘Axe the App Tax’ claiming Labour were putting a ‘tax on apps’, but now in power, National have dumped all that and will keep the tax after all…

National’s petition against tax Govt will now keep taken down

A petition to scrap a tax National now wants to retain remained active on the party website until this afternoon.

The petition titled “Axe the App Tax” said the tax would make Uber, Airbnb, and food delivery “more expensive in the middle of a cost of living crisis”.

It’s something Labour’s finance spokesperson Grant Robertson said shows the “hypocrisy” of the National Party.

National’s deputy leader and Finance Minister Nicola Willis said “it just shows we haven’t updated our website”.

It was taken down shortly after Willis was asked about it.

National had promised to reverse the change, which would have imposed GST on accommodation and transport providers on app platforms, such as Uber and Airbnb.

Currently, Airbnb hosts and Uber drivers levy themselves for GST but only if they make more than $60,000 in annual revenue.

While National had campaigned against the tax, it had u-turned on it in order to pay for its tax package, due to some revenue streams disappearing in coalition negotiations.

It will come into force in April.

Willis said earlier this week as National was part of a coalition government it had needed to “make adjustments”.

One notable source of revenue the party had earmarked to help pay for tax cuts pre-election was a reverse on a ban on foreign buyers in the property market. That was halted by New Zealand First.

The petition page against the app tax said it was “simply another tax grab from Labour to fuel their wasteful spending”.

“Labour plans to introduce a new tax on digital platforms to charge GST on their services, despite these services already complying with the same tax rules as everyone else.

“Someone that uses a ride sharing app twice a week could be paying hundreds of dollars extra a year, and a $400 weekend away booked through a digital provider could be $60 more expensive.

National targeted a specific tax that would trigger voters on social media and once in power lied about implementing it and just u-turned, yet of you were a young voter only seeing the world through TikTok, this was the driving issue for you in the cost of living crisis.

Only National have the audacity to pretend to lift a tax they had no intention of lifting once in power.

National are far better and far more clever liars than the Left.

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