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NZ Politics Daily: 12 March 2024

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Bryce Edwards
Mar 11, 2024
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LANDLORD TAX CUTS, TRUST TAX RATE EXEPTIONS
Jenna Lynch (Newshub): Revealed: Landlord tax cuts will cost hundreds of millions more than ACT, National campaigned on
Thomas Coughan (Herald): Cost of landlord tax break increased by $800m to $2.9b
Luke Malpass (Post): Luxon struggles with landlord tax questions
Gabi Lardies (Spinoff): A handy email template to request a rent reduction from your landlord
Anna Whyte and Thomas Manch (Post): PM defends reasons behind rental deductibility scale back (paywalled)
William Hewett (Newshub): Chlöe Swarbrick, David Seymour clash over return of interest deductibility for mortgages
Lauren Crimp (RNZ): No way renters will benefit from mortgage tax reductions - budgeting advisor
Greg Presland (The Standard): Tax cuts for landlords will not reduce rents
Anna Murray (1News): Interest deductibility is back: What will it mean for the housing market?
RNZ: Landlords praise tax deduction on rental properties
Jenée Tibshraeny (Herald): Trusts that earn less than $10,000 likely to be exempt from tax hike
RNZ: Government backs trust tax rate exemptions
Brent Edwards (NBR): Govt welcomes trustee tax rate recommendation (paywalled)

GOVERNMENT
Chris Trotter (Interest): To find the precedents for what this Coalition Government is proposing, it's necessary to return to the 'glory days' of Muldoonism
Danyl McLauchlan (Listener): The great blotting-out of key Labour policies has been accomplished (paywalled)
Tova O’Brien (Stuff): The new Government and cost of living
Derek Cheng (Herald): Revealed: The Government’s law and order 100-day action item that required ‘no actions’
Andrew Dickens (Newstalk ZB): Did the Government know that their pre-election promises were unaffordable?
Brent Edwards (NBR): 100-day fast-track; promises, promises; a grounding; outrage
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Govt’s shadowy work on secrecy clauses criticised
Herald: Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says his Government is ‘grown-up’
Kate MacNamara (Herald): Why the Ministry for Regulation will be treble the size of the Productivity Commission (paywalled)
Emma Hatton (Newsroom): Seymour rides into town to regulate ‘wild west’ of red tape
Fran O’Sullivan (Herald): Power player David Seymour turning his sights on boosting foreign investment
Herald Editorial: Public servants paying to do their jobs is a sorry state of affairs (paywalled)
Giles Dexter (RNZ): Chief Ombudsman Peter Boshier forced to resign due to age-limit law
Meriana Johnsen (Newshub): The Hui: Kotahitanga for rangatiratanga: The fight continues for te iwi Māori
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): National/ACT/NZ First First 100 days – Winners, Losers & Conclusions
Byron C Clark (Spinoff): A disinformation campaign, the 2023 election and new government policy
Kevin Norquay (Post): Just get on with it, says Finance Minister as paper work piles in (paywalled)

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