Budget 2025
The BusinessDesk team delivers everything you need to know about 2025's budget.
Economy
Govt slashes Budget 2025 operating allowance
Budget 2025 operating allowance is now $1.3 billion.
Economy
‘Uncertainty abounds’: Willis on trade war challenges
The impacts for NZ are twofold and will make its economic recovery harder, Willis says.
Economy
Corporate tax relief still on Budget agenda
Targeted relief rather than a company tax rate cut looks more likely.
Pattrick Smellie
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Pattrick was judged New Zealand's best overall columnist and business columnist of the year at the Voyager 2021 Media Awards. He has more than 35 years’ experience reporting and working in New Zealand politics and the commercial sector. A former Press Gallery chairman, he is an award-winning journalist and has worked for titles including The Dominion, The Press, Sunday Star-Times and National Business Review. He was the first NZ correspondent for The Australian and co-founded BusinessDesk in 2008.
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