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The wealth of a nation is the first paper in a series that forms part of the New Zealand Institute's initial research program on Creating an Ownership Society. Read more
The New Zealand Business Roundtable Submission on the officials' issues paper, 'Taxation of Non-controlled Offshore Investment in Equity'. Read more
The reasons for repealing the FRA as a separate piece of legislation appear to be symbolic. While this could be seen as a step towards de-emphasising the importance of fiscal responsibility, we think some features of the Bill represent improvements. Read more
The government's own projections make it clear that New Zealand will not achieve its 'top priority' goal of increasing sustainable growth under current policies. Read more
The New Zealand Business Roundtable supports government moves to reduce tax barriers to international recruitment, but would like to see more attention paid to keeping wealth-producing New Zealand. Read more
Under part 3 of the Telecommunications Act 2001. the Telecommunications Commissioner is annually required to determine the net cost to Telecom New Zealand (Telecom) of services provided under the Telecommunications Service Obligations (TSO) Deed for Local Residential Telephone Service 2001. Read more
This submission provides a high-level assessment of the Holidays Bill and the Holidays (Four Weeks Annual Leave) Amendment Bill. In particular, it examines broad issues relating to the regulation of holidays in a modern and diverse labour market. Read more
The present electricity crisis demonstrates that too many of the government's policies are incompatible with its stated priority of economic growth. Read more
A core issue in relation to all the proposals is whether or to what extent the NZX and the government (directly or via the Securities Commission) should prescribe corporate governance rules or whether they should be the business of shareholders who invest in listed companies. Read more
The only hope of achieving consensus and stability on retirement income is to build policies on a sound conceptual foundation. Policies in the recent past lacked such a foundation and proved unsustainable. Read more