Housing Crisis in NZ: Progressive Solutions for Affordable Living
New Zealand’s housing crisis continues despite falling prices. Here are progressive policy solutions that could improve affordability and reduce speculation.
Capital Gains Tax
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CTU Welcomes Labour’s Capital Gains Tax Plan
The CTU backs Labour’s proposed Capital Gains Tax, saying it would fund healthcare and create a fairer tax system ahead of Election 2026.
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Alliance Slams Labour’s CGT as Too Weak
The Alliance Party criticises Labour’s leaked Capital Gains Tax plan, calling for a wealth tax, FTT and full overhaul ahead of Election 2026.
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Labour’s Targeted Property Tax & Free GP Visits
Labour proposes a targeted capital gains tax to fund three free GP visits per year. Family homes exempt. Here’s what it means for Election 2026.
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Simon Bridges: “No ifs, no buts, no caveats, I will repeal this CGT”
“…No ifs, no buts, no caveats, I will repeal this CGT as Prime Minister of New Zealand ” – a statement so categorical that it made John Key’s 2008 commitment never to raise GST, look timid;
“National is not going to be raising GST.National wants to cut taxes not raise taxes.”
Except, he did.
In October 2010, Key’s National government increased GST from 12.5% to 15%. -
Simon Bridges – out of touch with Kiwi Battlers
As property investors/speculators; assorted financiers; and their political-wing, the National Party, ramp up their opposition to a capital gains tax to a stridency approaching hysteria, current party leader, Simon Bridges, has used the mainstream media to push his highly propagandised (and highly emotive and misleading) messages;
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What I want for Christmas…
Now is the time of the year when we send in requests to that mysterious red-garbed being at the north pole for ‘goodies’ of one sort or another. This is my belated wish-list of gifts. But not gifts for myself. These are gifts for the whole of New Zealand…
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Observations on the 2017 Election campaign thus far… (ono)
The jaw-dropping, gob-smacking, forehead-slapping gall of Winston Peters! For him to demand clarity and full disclosure from others – when he himself has made a fetish of not disclosing to voters who he will coalesce with, post-election – takes the Hypocrisy-of-the-Year Award from National and plants it firmly on his own Italian suited jacket-lapel.
