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Dropping GST on Food Would Be Crazy

Don Brash bassettbrashandhide.com A couple of months back I wrote a column on New Zealand’s high and, at that time, accelerating rate of inflation. I concluded that column with the following comment: There has to be some risk that, faced with growing public concern about inflation and the

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As Predicted, Hipkins Extends Fuel Tax Cuts
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As Predicted, Hipkins Extends Fuel Tax Cuts

As I predicted earlier, removing the fuel tax and RUC cuts has proved too difficult for the Government to even contemplate. With Hipkins’s promise to focus on the cost of living, removing the fuel tax and excise was going to see prices at the pump rocket up by a

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Take Our Daily Trivia Quiz
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Take Our Daily Trivia Quiz

Test your trivia knowledge – Select from seven subject categories. General knowledge, Dictionary, Entertainment, History, Food & Drink, Geography, Science & Nature. To Enjoy Our Other Puzzles Become a Bronze Member

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Face of the Day

Face of the Day

Leighton Baker is missing! Where has he gone? Why have they excluded him from the polls? Why is RNZ suppressing this information? Discuss it on The BFD. If you would like to access exclusive Member content or just remove the ads to make your reading experience more enjoyable click here

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The BFD Daily Proverb
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The BFD Daily Proverb

Proverbs 2 14 They take pleasure in doing wrong,    and they enjoy the twisted ways of evil. If you enjoyed this BFD Daily Proverb please consider sharing it with your friends.

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The BFD Nightcap
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The BFD Nightcap

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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

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Undeterred by Flooding, Auckland Teen Ramraids Dairy

Undeterred by Flooding, Auckland Teen Ramraids Dairy

Gordon Lightfoot whakatakitimes.nz Amid all the destruction in Auckland at the moment due to unprecedented flash flooding over the weekend, one teen showed us that it would take more than a bit of rain to slow him down. Dylan Mathieson, 15, refused to let flooding get in the way

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Broken Halo

Broken Halo

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View from Your Window
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View from Your Window

**If readers want this series to continue please send your original photos to window@thebfd.co.nz What can you tell us about this View From Your Window? ** We need more photos please folks, so grab your camera or mobile phone and get snapping! Yesterday’s photo was the view

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One Day Justice Will Prevail and the Truth Will Be Told

New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com Dr Emanuel Garcia and Dr Matt Shelton have become familiar faces to many over the last few years, and in this latest doctor to doctor uncensored conversation they share their perspectives on the covid catastrophe, early treatment suppression, the propaganda, politics

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Govt Has Incentivised People to Not Work

David Seymour ACT Party Leader With close to 100,000 people on jobseeker benefits and businesses begging for more workers, low unemployment numbers cannot mask the labour crisis facing New Zealand businesses. Today’s unemployment figure of 3.4 per cent becomes a moot point when there are so many

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Change in Political Weather Detected

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Polls

Polls

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Is It Possible to Make Our Tax System Fair?
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Is It Possible to Make Our Tax System Fair?

Lisa Marriott Professor of Taxation Victoria University of Wellington New Zealand’s new Prime Minister, Chris Hipkins, has said we should look at ways to make the tax system fairer. Finance associate minister David Parker made a similar point almost a year ago, though there was little real action after

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