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BUDGET, TAX, ECONOMY, COST OF LIVING
Janet Wilson (Post): How Peters could derail tax cuts and deliver the economy (paywalled)
Peter Dunne (Newsroom): Public discomfort at gung-ho lack of compassion
Bernard Hickey (The Kākā): Borrowing $15b more to pay for $14.9b of tax cuts
Vernon Small (Post): If Willis isn’t for turning, she might be for slowing (paywalled)
Luke Malpass (Post): A contest of competing versions of political reality (paywalled)
Dileepa Fonseka (BusinessDesk): The reality of recession (paywalled)
Marc Daalder (Newsroom): Govt’s Groundhog Day sees nine more weeks of tax confusion
Gordon Campbell: On the US opposition to mortgage interest deductibility for landlords
Jason Walls (Newstalk ZB): Willis disappoints fiscal nerds, but the worst is yet to come (paywalled)
1News: Budget outlook 'electioneering', 'light on details' - economist
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Government expected to need to borrow up to an extra $15b in Budget (paywalled)
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): Is the Government really having to borrow to pay for tax cuts?
Newstalk ZB: 'We don't want to be radical': Government to take 'slow and steady' approach to restoring surplus numbers (paywalled)
Rayssa Almeida (RNZ): Government policies 'taking people backwards' - Labour
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Post): Moody's joins S&P in reserving judgement on Budget Policy Statement (paywalled)
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): Minimum wage ‘should be $26’
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): Here’s how much benefits, Working for Families increase
Newshub: Labour hits out at Government's increases to minimum wage, benefits
Newshub: Minimum wage, benefits, student allowance: All the payment increases coming into effect today
William Terite (Newshub): The Government aid coming to workers, beneficiaries and landlords from April 1
Anna Murray (1News): What the April 1 tax and benefit changes will mean for you
Newstalk ZB: 'Committed to moderate increases': More minimum wage boosts hinted at following today's raise (paywalled)
Liam Dann (Herald): What’s in a name — does calling it a recession make it worse? (paywalled)
Susan Edmunds (Stuff): A year of ‘hanging on’: ASB says tough times almost over
Patrick Gamble (Herald): An Easter reprieve? What trustee tax changes mean for New Zealanders
GOVERNMENT
Derek Cheng (Herald): Christopher Luxon’s ‘action plan’ for next quarter - the easy ticks and potential game-changers (paywalled)
Craig McCulloch (RNZ): Prime Minister lays out his priority list for next three months
Ireland Hendry-Tennent (Newshub): Tax relief and public service targets: Prime Minister Christopher Luxon reveals Government's next 'action plan'
Luke Malpass (Post): The CEO PM sets out his second quarter targets (paywalled)
Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): Steven Joyce’s revolving door entry into a $4000/day govt appointment
Audrey Young (Herald): Murray McCully and Steven Joyce roped into advising new Government (paywalled)
Derek Cheng (Herald): Behind the coalition talks: What the parties asked about to inform negotiations - Fees-free, Three Strikes, UNDRIP (paywalled)
Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): NZ First celebrates “victory” over the Serious Fraud Office, but questions remain
Tova O’Brien (Stuff): Tova Podcast: Limitarianism v Libertarianism, is it time for a cap on wealth?
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