Politics
Opinion
Pattrick Smellie: Taxing property to pay for GP visits - Labour's CGT
Labour may finally have found a politically acceptable CGT.
Policy
Labour’s tax plan by the numbers
Labour has chosen a small target CGT and a popular health target.
Economy
Labour's CGT: 'the moderates have won'
A 'first step' policy that may not raise much revenue.
Policy
Online gambling receipts balloon amid efforts to regulate sector
Offshore online gambling providers filed $290.3m of GST receipts in six months to July.
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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