Wealth tax or food GST exemption: Which policy could make our tax system fairer?

By Danyl McLauchlan
New Zealand Listener·
18 mins to read

Wealth tax or food GST exemption: Which policy could make our tax system fairer?
Finance ministers have become masters at steadily increasing taxes without being seen to do so. Photo / Getty Images

The spectre of tax is haunting our politics and the upcoming election. The policy complications of exempting foods from GST howl in the night, while wealth and capital gains taxes circle the Beehive like angry ghosts – despite successive prime ministers’ best attempts to exorcise them. Our politicians have spent

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