ELECTION 2020: National dangles short-term tax cuts for workers, business

ELECTION 2020: National dangles short-term tax cuts for workers, business
Paul McBeth
The National Party is offering short-term tax cuts targeting middle-income earners and business investment to smooth the hard edges of the pandemic. Finance spokesman Paul Goldsmith unveiled the major opposition party’s economic and fiscal plan two days after Treasury’s pre-election economic and fiscal update showed the immediate economic impact of covid-19 and subsequent lockdowns were less severe than first feared, but that the country will take longer and faces a steeper climb to get out the hole. National promises to increase spending...

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