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Jenée Tibshraeny: What to look out for in today's Budget
How Finance Minister Nicola Willis will try to recalibrate the Government's books.
OECD warns NZ Govt it shouldn’t borrow to pay for tax cuts
Organisation calls for a capital gains tax, better education and more competition.
Jenée Tibshraeny: Nuance needed right-sizing the public sector
What the numbers tell us about what happened to the public sector under Labour.
Nicola Willis on the state of the Government's finances
Willis has conceded she won’t be able to get the books back in shape quickly.
Jenée Tibshraeny: Nicola Willis' Budget preview a sobering reality check
OPINION: Delivery is always tough for the Government - even if the economy was stronger.
Willis concedes Govt books won't be back in shape quickly
Finance Minister avoids unveiling likely size of Budget 2024.
Govt warned against borrowing to fund tax cuts by IMF - says it could fuel inflation
The international organisation says the Government's purse strings need to be tightened.
Slow growth won't stop income tax cuts, Nicola Willis says
A return to surplus by 2026-27 remains in question.
What the watered down tax on house flippers will look like
Bright-line test to mirror what it looked like under the previous National-led Government.
Govt spending cuts unlikely to get books back to surplus by 2027
Nicola Willis will 'update' the Government's tax/spend goals.
Revealed: Willis may exempt some trusts from planned tax hike
The Finance Minister won't give details but is confident the changes are affordable.
Opinion: Voters don’t want to hear the fiscal truth
Financial Times: Virtually everyone, except the very rich, feel effects of fiscal reform.
Govt faces billion-dollar Emissions Trading Scheme hole
Why another failed ETS auction wouldn't be a "failure".
Audited version of Crown accounts sees size of deficit shrink
The Government's books were $9.4 billion in deficit over the past year.
Jenée Tibshraeny: Devil's in the detail of major parties' look-alike tax and spend plans
The major parties plan to reduce debt at a similar rate but at a cost to different groups.
The sledgehammer needed to smash unemployment and inflation
A lagging pain from the sting of central bank hikes could start to set in.
Treasury forecasts suggest we're going back to the future
OPINION: Our editorial on why productivity is the golden ticket out of this fiscal rut.
Former PM recalls how chaos, economic alarm spawned big pre-election event
'She and I got together and said: This should never happen again.'
Matthew Hooton: National’s tax plan is a cynical con job
OPINION: Savings must be used to repay our growing debt, not to buy off voters.
Thomas Coughlan: National’s $14.6b tax plan - does it add up?
OPINION: Does the National plan deliver - and do the sums make sense?
Debt blowout: Govt expected to borrow $35b more than planned eight months ago
Economists warn the next government won't have much cash to splash.