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• Arrogance

  
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  Yesterday, in one of the most effective student protests in years, 400 students blockaded a major Auckland street for several hours over cuts to student funding. Bill Englishs response ? "Yes, theres a protest movement out there but whos really listening to them?" English said, in response to a question from the ...
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• Tax columnist Terry Baucher does the sums on the "zero" 2012 budget and uncovers the unreported $1.4 billion bracket creep that will put more money in Govts pocket.

  
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  Tweet By Terry Baucher* Yesterday was the first time I was in the Budget Lock-Up, where analysts and media get advance notice of the Budget’s contents.  By now the main announcements regarding tax ...
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• Finance Minister English defends forecasts of worsening current account deficit; Says its because investment intentions want more capital than NZ savings provide

  
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  Tweet Finance Minister Bill English is defending projections showing New Zealands current account deficit almost doubling in four years, saying the main driver of that deterioration is that New Zealands improving savings rate is still not good enough to ...
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• Treasury seeking retail bank to help with up to 250,000 applications from retail investors for shares in each SOE

  
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  Tweet Already with numerous advisers on board to help with the Governments planned state owned enterprise (SOE) sell-downs, Treasury is now seeking a retail bank to help with what it anticipates to be huge interest in the shares from retail "ma and pa" ...
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• Daily Poll

  
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  Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this posts poll.
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• BusinessDesk: KiwiRail the main beneficiary of Future Investment Fund proceeds from MightyRiverPower sell-down

  
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  Tweet By Pattrick Smellie The single largest beneficiary of the asset sales programme this year will be the loss-making state-owned railway, with $250 million of the approximately $600 million proceeds ...
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• BusinessDesk: $45.5 bln of new debt to include $4 bln inflation-indexed bonds; $3 bln lower than flagged in PREFU

  
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  Tweet The New Zealand Debt Management Office will sell as much as $4 billion of inflation-indexed bonds in the next two financial years. The governments debt issuer has been looking at resuming inflation-linked bond sales for the past couple of years, ...
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• Budget 2012 is a steady as she goes budget that relies on growth and a bit of tweaking to return to surplus, but doesnt shift NZs growth track

  
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  Tweet By Bernard Hickey The government is relying on growth from the Christchurch rebuild and continued strong growth in China and Australia to get the economy and the government’s finances back on track. There are no major moves to shift the ...
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• English acknowledges economic downside scenario would force NZ government to borrow more for longer and let surplus target slip "a bit"

  
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  Tweet By Bernard Hickey Finance Minister Bill English has acknowledged a sharp slowdown in China could cut the governments revenues and force it to return to surplus later than the current plan for a ...
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• Treasury lowers forecast interest rate track over next four years; Expects first OCR hike at start of 2013, and for OCR to rise higher than Reserve Bank thinks

  
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  Tweet By Alex Tarrant Treasury is the latest to succumb to a ‘lower for longer’ view of where interest rates are headed, but is still more optimistic than the Reserve Bank on how high the Official ...
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• Govt scraps 2014 KiwiSaver auto-enrolment plan in bid to reach surplus in 2014/15 year

  
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  Tweet By Alex Tarrant The government has scrapped a half a billion dollar plan to automatically enrol all those not in KiwiSaver into the scheme in 2014/15 as it struggled to hit a miserly NZ$197 million surplus that year. The decision is part of a ...
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• Govt positions itself for Kiwibank captial injection in next few years; From partial asset sale proceeds

  
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  Tweet By Alex Tarrant The government is positioning itself to inject new capital into Kiwibank over the next three years, with that likely to come from the proceeds of its partial privatisation programme. Budget 2012 tables included a new unquantified ...
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• Budget 2012; live from the sofa

  
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  Its Budget Day, and the Speaker has just entered the House. Stand by for Budget updates as Bill English delivers Budget 2012, and the Budget Debate gets underway, led in order by David Shearer then John Key. 2.03pm - Bill English gets underway...but where are Russel and Metiria? 2.07pm - The First Reading ...
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• Govt eyes NZ$1.4 bln extra revenue over next four years as tobacco excise hiked, mixed-use and livestock rules tightened, tax compliance increased

  
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  Tweet By Alex Tarrant The government’s bid to hit a NZ$197 million surplus in 2014/15 will be aided by an expected NZ$1.4 billion worth of new revenue over the next four years. Finance Minister Bill ...
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• Oi! That Was Ours! You Bastards!

  
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  Adolf chuckled long and hard as he read this piece a couple of days ago. Tax base broadening measures in Budget 2012 will target high income New Zealanders who structure their financial affairs in ways to avoid their obligations, Finance Minister Bill English says. Speaking to media ahead of tomorrows ...
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• Emmersons Budget cartoons

  
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  On the Heralds Facebook page, theyve set up an album of Rod Emmersons Budget cartoons from 2004 to 2012. We rather like this one from last year: Emmerson has been pretty even-handed over the years; he offered this one for Michael Cullen final, the-cupboard-is-almost-bare Budget in 2008: ...
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• Those weren’t the good old days

  
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  Those of us old enough to remember Budgets long past will recall the great secrecy surrounding them and the attempts to second guess tax increases by stocking up on fuel, alcohol and cigarettes before prices went up. Budgets nowadays are no less important but hold few surprises. Finance Minister Bill English had ...
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• Budget Day - 24 May 2012

  
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  Its Budget Day, and at 2pm this afternoon, Bill English will present his fourth Budget to Parliament and to New Zealand. We already have a pretty good idea of whats in this years Budget; zero nett new spending, and a return to a surplus in the 2014-15 financial year. But in this mornings Dom-Post, Vernon Small ...
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• Stealth taxes

  
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  Bill English has introduced a number of stealth taxes over his time in office, to partly balance the loss his tax cuts for the rich has generated. The latest in this budget will be prescription costs and raising the price of Early Childhood Education (again).  We’ll have to wait until tomorrow to find out if ...
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• Budget 2012 tax base broadening moves to target high income NZers avoiding obligations, English says; Budget theme confidence in uncertain times

  
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  Tweet Tax base broadening measures in Budget 2012 will target high income New Zealanders who structure their financial affairs in ways to avoid their obligations, Finance Minister Bill English says. ...
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