Aspiring Conversations
@aspiringconv
Aotearoa's best little festival of ideas. March 25-27, 2022.
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http://aspiringconversations.co.nz 14-06-2014 02:35:01
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Max Rashbrooke: What we are doing now is not enough for those in poverty. People are suffering day by day. Until we change inequality will grow and won’t get better. #taxislove
Lisa Marriott: Needs a global solution as it is a global problem. The problem is getting everybody on board. #taxislove
Max Rashbrooke: Need to force companies to pay taxes where they make money not where they choose to pay tax. Pay taxes where sales are - allocate profits to that country and pay that tax tare and prevents siphoning off #taxislove
Shamubeel Eaqub: Apple’s ingenuity is greater in taxes than in the phones they make! #taxislove
Shamubeel Eaqub: Do Australians eat more veggies than us because vegetables are taxed at a lower rate? #taxislove
Max Rashbrooke: Recall argument in UK about whether mallowpuffs are cakes or biscuits as they are treated differently in the way they are taxed #taxislove
LisaMarriott: (on changes to GST): The more we move away from simple tax system you generate complexity around purchases - if someone buys a potato to plant in the ground, is that a food item or something else? #taxislove
Shamubeel Eaqub: Tax is one part of arsenal with dealing with health issues. Favour sugar tax because such a huge public health issue. But would never be big enough in beginning to change behaviour. Public policy works better when using not just one tool. #taxislove
Lisa Marriott: Introducing sugar tax could change behaviour. Problem is it needs to be large enough to make impact #taxislove
Shamubeel Eaqub: Lot of things can do in NZ. Land tax is favourite of mine but needs to come with concessions. Got to show thinking about equity and transition people in. #taxislove Shamubeel Eaqub
Shamubeel Eaqub: Need to keep evolving for shifts in society. There is no one perfect answer. #taxislove Shamubeel Eaqub
Lisa Marriott: CGT not only option for taxing wealth. We don’t have inheritance or death taxes. Lot of countries have combinations. #taxislove
Shamubeel Eaqub: Govt is fearful about upsetting people. There are ways to rebalance it. In NZ we pay too much tax on work & consumption because there is no tax on capital. Many people in future could have more money in back pocket. #taxislove Shamubeel Eaqub
Lisa Marriott: (on Capital Gains Tax) If people understood how it would work and who would pay then we would see a lot less opposition to it. Your own family home won’t be subject to it and the tax is only on the gain. There is a real communications issue #taxislove
Panel: Brightline test becoming more radical over time as it gets longer and longer. Sneak it in and don’t call it a tax. #taxislove
Max Rashbrooke: Change creates own reality. Banning smoking in pubs changed reality. If Govt had courage of Capital Gains Tax and brought in would be harder to unwind by future govts #taxislove
Lisa Marriott: Inland Revenue funding cut and not seeing response to the egregious behaviour with reliance on whistleblowers #taxislove
Lisa Marriott: Taxing wealth - what NZ does is different. We’re only taxing wealth on small number of transactions and this leads to problematic behaviour including issues with housing #taxislove