PM Christopher Luxon pitches Irish-style welcome to global investors including overseas investment act changes

PM Christopher Luxon pitches Irish-style welcome to global investors including overseas investment act changes
Luxon making the pitch for NZ Inc at a business event in Laos. Photo: Supplied
Dileepa Fonseka
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon wants to make New Zealand an easier place for foreigners to invest and part of his solution includes looking at introducing the Irish model of a concierge-style service for multinationals.In an interview with BusinessDesk, on the flight back to NZ from the East Asia Summit in Laos, Luxon said NZ needed to make it easier for foreigners to invest as Ireland did. He saw a National Infrastructure Agency (NIA) as a key method of attracting foreign capital, but also signalled changes to the Overseas Investment Ac...

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