Minister of Finance Nicola Willis speaks at a pre-budget breakfast at the Silver Stream retreat in Wellington. Photo / Marty Melville
There are 20 days left until Budget 2024 is delivered, and anticipation is building for what exactly the new Government will deliver.
Finance Minister Nicola Willis this week delivered her first pre-Budget speech, in which she promised 83 per cent of New Zealanders over 15, and 93 per cent of
households, would benefit from tax relief that National has promised since the election campaign.
Her comments ended months of speculation about whether the Government could deliver on that promise. What else will be revealed in the Budget remains to be seen, but Willis told journalists that it wouldn’t be a “big-spending Budget” - however, it wouldn’t be an austerity Budget either.
So who will benefit from the Budget, can the Government meet the reasonable expectations it’s set for itself, and will there be opportunities for Labour to benefit from the opposition benches?
