Finance Minister Bill English has again refused to rule out introducing some form of capital gains or land tax as Treasury officials seek policy tools to prevent a premature housing boom and an overvalued dollar blocking economic recovery.
"The economy needs to shift away from more spending and borrowing to more exporting," he said yesterday.
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