The advantage of simplicity over fairness is often bought up by accounting experts whose job often entails devising complex ways for people to avoid paying tax. Re CGT, all of the TWG unanimously agreed on the need for a CGT although there was a minority ...
Written By: Simon Louisson - Date published: 3:40 pm, April 27th, 2022 - 49 comments
Categories: capital gains, david parker, Economy, inequality, Politics, tax
Tags: fair taxes, income inequality, tax avoidance
… seven taxes. We’re not.” Simon Louisson, a former journalist, reported for…
Written By: Simon Louisson - Date published: 1:14 pm, January 27th, 2022 - 154 comments
Categories: benefits, covid-19, Economy, inequality, Politics, Social issues
Tags: bernard hickey, capital gains tax, inheritance tax, Kathryn Ryan, quantitative easing, reserve bank, social policy, wealth tax
… Group nearly three years ago. Simon Louisson reported for The Wall Street…
Written By: Simon Louisson - Date published: 7:15 am, December 8th, 2021 - 136 comments
Categories: brand key, Christopher Luxon, john key, Media, politicans, Politics
Tags: cult, jack tame
… a smooth-talking rich man. (Simon Louisson reported for The Wall Street…
Written By: Simon Louisson - Date published: 12:30 pm, November 4th, 2021 - 70 comments
Categories: Maori Issues, Politics, republic
Tags: constitution, monarchy, prince charles, queen elizabeth II
… all participants were over 60. (Simon Louisson reported for The Wall Street…
I wonder where lockdown flouter William John Lawrence Willis of Wanaka infamy gets his entitlement from? Chartered accountant father Robert John Willis owns a company called Wire Works, family owned for three generations. A profile on the net gives us a ...
Written By: Simon Louisson - Date published: 7:52 am, July 26th, 2021 - 51 comments
Categories: climate change, Environment, tax, transport
Tags: utes
… and ‘80s,” Dr Wild says. (Simon Louisson reported for The Wall Street…
Written By: Simon Louisson - Date published: 7:46 am, November 27th, 2020 - 34 comments
Categories: covid-19, Media, Social issues
Tags: bernard hickey, Kris Faafoi, NZME, RNZ, stuff
…. They are a commercial organisation’.” (Simon Louisson is a former journalist who…
Written By: Simon Louisson - Date published: 12:19 pm, October 25th, 2020 - 17 comments
Categories: labour, national, Politics
Tags: caucus, leaks, opposition, winning from opposition
…nine months English’s successor, Simon Bridges, kept party support at…in 2014, she completely destabilised Simon Bridges, and she was behind…to change the leader from Simon to Todd, and then …makes use of idle hands. (Simon Louisson worked as a journalist for…
Written By: Simon Louisson - Date published: 7:14 am, October 21st, 2020 - 33 comments
Categories: capital gains, Economy, jacinda ardern, Judith Collins, labour, national, Politics, same old national, tax
Tags:
… a deeply unpopular leader in Simon Bridges. Third iteration National leader…
Written By: Simon Louisson - Date published: 6:53 am, September 4th, 2020 - 62 comments
Categories: election 2017, election 2020, greens, jacinda ardern, john key, labour, nz first, political parties, Politics, poverty, tax, winston peters
Tags: jim bolger, neoliberalism, ruth richardson, tax working group, working for families
… how well she seizes it. (Simon Louisson worked as a journalist for…
Written By: Simon Louisson - Date published: 3:00 pm, August 1st, 2020 - 13 comments
Categories: eugenie sage
Tags: e-waste, greenpeace, plastics, waste
… seems a good first step. (Simon Louisson worked as a journalist for…
Are you trying to say that if the affair was outed earlier then it may have been stopped in its tracks and Douglas et al would have been able to continue the monetarist experiment including the 20% flat tax proposal?
I think this business is about Dirty Politics and political optics. Long-term affairs like this are rarely a secret in Parliament. For example, everyone in the Press Gallery when I worked there knew about the affair between David Lange and his speech ...
Economist, ex Roundtable member and former Comalco general manager Kerry McDonald argues in an article on Businessdesk that the Tiwai Point smelter has never had a subsidised power supply and its closure is unlikely to benefit consumers. https://...
Remember Thornley adjusted for the fact that most cruise passengers are elderly
Written By: Simon Louisson - Date published: 10:45 am, April 7th, 2020 - 93 comments
Categories: Economy, jacinda ardern
Tags: bernard hickey, depression, reserve bank, sweden, the netherlands
… down,” says leading academic epidemiologist Simon Thornley of Auckland University. He… print our way of this.” (Simon Louisson formerly worked for Reuters, the…
Written By: Simon Louisson - Date published: 9:39 am, January 3rd, 2020 - 5 comments
Categories: boris johnson, Donald Trump, International
Tags: book review, britain, John le Carré, russia, Spying, United States
… Iraq war on false evidence. (Simon Louisson, a former journalist, reported for…
Just to clarify - WIAL is what as known as a requiring authority and local authority under the designation and compulsory acquisition processes of the Public Works Act. The golf club was counselled that "assuming that WIAL is able to produce compelling ...
Written By: Simon Louisson - Date published: 8:15 am, October 30th, 2019 - 26 comments
Categories: local government, Politics
Tags: andy foster, Mark Blumsky, peter jackson, wellington, wellington airport, wellington city council
…. We will watch this space. (Simon Louisson reported for The Wall Street…
Written By: Simon Louisson - Date published: 1:45 am, April 10th, 2019 - 73 comments
Categories: australian politics, Dirty Politics, International, jacinda ardern, Media, Politics
Tags: facebook, hate crime, hate speech, privacy commissioner, semi-automatics, social media
…, it’s time to lead. (Simon Louisson reported for The Wall Street…
Written By: Simon Louisson - Date published: 2:41 pm, March 25th, 2019 - 46 comments
Categories: Amy Adams, capital gains, equality, greens, labour, national, tax, uncategorized
Tags: inequality, tax tax working group capital gains inequality income tax, tax tax working group capital gains inequality income tax amy adams
…’m not holding my breath. (Simon Louisson reported for The Wall Street…
Written By: Simon Louisson - Date published: 3:23 pm, March 22nd, 2019 - 43 comments
Categories: Economy, uncategorized
Tags: electricity, electricity market, inequality, market failure
… some pay more than others. Simon Louisson is a former reporter who…
BTW if you feel strongly about gun control I urge you to email to your local MP, Police Minister Stuart Nash and the PM. Remember pro-gun proponents are many and very vocal which is why effective gun control since Aramoana has been shelved so often. Those ...
Written By: Simon Louisson - Date published: 5:35 am, March 21st, 2019 - 185 comments
Categories: chris bishop, john banks, paula bennett, Politics, Simon Bridges, stuart nash, winston peters
Tags: Aramoana, gun control, gun lobby, guns, MSSA, nra, select committee
… events of Friday. His leader, Simon Bridges has definitely thrown in… the internet Restrict gun advertising (Simon Louisson reported for The Wall Street…
Paula Benefit says poll shows Nats doing "pretty well" https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2019/02/paula-bennett-says-national-s-doing-pretty-well-despite-disastrous-poll.html - probably as well as Nats did with their "pretty legal" Eminem rip-off
The question you pose in your headline, but never attempt to answer, is simply answered in one word - taxes. More specifically how taxes are imposed. This is the main way governments influence economies. This government partially understands that, which is...
Written By: Simon Louisson - Date published: 2:20 pm, November 7th, 2018 - 14 comments
Categories: business, capitalism, Economy, economy, employment, making shit up, unemployment
Tags: business confidence, economy, unemployment
[caption id="attachment_2123755" align="alignright" width="300"] Olly Hartless[/caption]As predicted by the ANZ Bank’s dire business confidence surveys, today’s unemployment data revealed that unemployment has fallen to a disastrous level of 3.9 percent, …
Written By: Simon Louisson - Date published: 4:26 pm, October 25th, 2018 - 21 comments
Categories: Abuse of power, capitalism, corruption, democracy under attack, electoral commission, parliamentary spending, Politics
Tags: corruption, donations, influence
… recording of National Party leader Simon Bridges with Ross is that… work that strongly challenges inequality. (Simon Louisson reported for The Wall Street…
Written By: Simon Louisson - Date published: 3:32 pm, October 18th, 2018 - 207 comments
Categories: Abuse of power, Dirty Politics, electoral commission, national, Politics, Simon Bridges
Tags: china, corruption, donations, influence
…-Lee Ross’s recording of Simon Bridges has been widely characterised… advised by Dirty Politics actor Simon Lusk, claims the rationale for… – National has no moral compass. (Simon Louisson reported for The Wall Street…
Written By: Simon Louisson - Date published: 12:41 pm, October 16th, 2018 - 171 comments
Categories: Abuse of power, by-election, corruption, Dirty Politics, elections, Politics, Simon Bridges
Tags: jamie-lee ross, Todd mcclay
…corrupt practices against party leader Simon Bridges. In a stand-… corrupt practice. I know Simon filed a false return because… corrupt practice. I believe Simon Bridges is a corrupt politician… up the $100,000. (Simon Louisson reported for The Wall Street…
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