National floats company tax cut, recommits to higher pension age

National floats company tax cut, recommits to higher pension age
Pattrick Smellie
By Pattrick Smellie Aug. 26 (BusinessDesk) - The National Party is floating a cut to New Zealand's 28 percent company tax rate among a suite of possible tax changes it would promise going into the 2020 election. "New Zealand has one of the highest company tax rates in the OECD at 28 percent and we collect the fourth largest share of tax in the OECD from companies," the party's leader, Simon Bridges, said today at a launch of the party's economic policy discussion document in Auckland. "Tax is one of the single largest costs for busines...

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