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Labour to tax rich more to help fund Covid-19 recovery

Finance Minister says new top tax rate would affect only 2% of taxpayers.

Brent Edwards Wed, 09 Sep 2020

The Labour Party is proposing introducing a new top tax rate of 39% on income over $180,000.

It is a return to the tax policy of the previous Labour-led government, which introduced a top marginal tax rate of 39% in April 2000, although it cut in at a lower income threshold. That rate was then

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Brent Edwards Wed, 09 Sep 2020
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