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# Faces of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/faces-of-the-day-157/
- Published: 2026-08-23T18:30:57.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-23T18:30:56.000Z
- Description: Asked if National meant no increases existing taxes, levies or fees, Willis did not rule it out. “We’re saying no new taxes,” she said.
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: Face of the Day

> The National Party is promising no new taxes if re-elected this November, but has not ruled out increasing existing taxes.  
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> The party had already ruled out a bank tax and on Sunday scrapped the idea of an accommodation levy on short-term rentals such as bed and breakfasts.  
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> It comes after Prime Minister Christopher Luxon spoke publicly a fortnight ago about the possibility of three new taxes under National – a bed tax, a bank tax, and a fuel excise increase.  
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> The announcement on Sunday ruled out the first two but was silent on the third, fuel excise. \[...\]  
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> Asked if National meant no increases existing taxes, levies or fees, Willis did not rule it out.  
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> “We’re saying no new taxes,” she said  
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> Luxon said the petrol tax had been a “feature of New Zealand’s system for decades” and his government had decided not to increase it in their first term.  
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> “We also need to acknowledge that is the way that we actually fund and invest in our roads as well. But this is about no new taxes \[...\]  
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> [RNZ](https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/politics%5Felection-2026/1083119/national-promises-no-new-taxes-if-re-elected?ref=goodoil.news)

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