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How to reform our hump-shaped tax system

OPINION: ‘Only the little people pay taxes!’ It’s high time we insist on something better.

Tim Hazledine Sat, 06 May 2023

“Only the little people pay taxes!” That was the view of Leona Helmsley, the billionaire New York City hotelier, who was charged with tax evasion in the late 1980s and served 21 months in jail.

Helmsley would have felt at home in New Zealand. Our little people – in which category she would

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Tim Hazledine Sat, 06 May 2023
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