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TAX, SPENDING CUTS
Amelia Wade (Newshub): Council of Trade Unions finds another $500m shortfall in Government's tax plan
Danyl McLauchlan (Listener): Pre-election claims are coming back to bite the embattled PM (paywalled)
Richard Harman (Politik): Willis is not for turning (paywalled)
Paul McBeth (BusinessDesk): Willis to serve up a cold dish for Wellington (paywalled)
Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): Why Nicola Willis needs to resign
Chris Trotter (Democracy Project): National’s Governing for (Crony) Capitalists – Not Capitalism
Chris Trotter (Interest): If 3,000 angry Kiwis in 2022, how will Christopher Luxon’s cope with 300,000 in 2025?
Perry Wilton (Newshub): Free School Lunches gets A-rating, but David Seymour still warns funding cuts will be made
Laura Walters (Newsroom): Internal Affairs boss warns staff not to leak
RNZ: Ministry of Ethnic Communities, set up to 'heal wounds' of 15 March, faces job cuts
Anna Whyte (Post): Oranga Tamariki staff to wait until mid-April for proposed cuts updates (paywalled)
David Farrar: NZ’s problem is too much spending, not a lack of tax
Terry Baucher (Interest): The New Zealand Tax Podcast: the IMF on capital gains tax, taxing wealth, and changing the ETS
Alexia Russell (RNZ): The Detail: Fiscal holes as a political weapon
Brent Edwards (NBR): Revenue Minister keen to reduce tax burden and compliance costs (paywalled)
Dan Brunskill (Interest): Research by the Reserve Bank suggests using a different set of employment indicators to better measure inflation pressure in the economy
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