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Carpark tax shows govt losing sight of big picture


Attaining the surplus should not be allowed to crowd out other economic goals – especially the goal of minimising red tape for businesses.

Rob Hosking
Tue, 19 Mar 2013

Ministers promise the government will focus on “bigger and more important tax matters” now they have dropped the much derided carpark tax.

Like, for example, cellphones and computers supplied by the employer, although whether this proposal – which, unlike the carpark tax, has not been

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Rob Hosking
Tue, 19 Mar 2013
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