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Andrew Dickens: We're all talk, no action

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Thu, 13 Mar 2025, 6:31am

Andrew Dickens: We're all talk, no action

Author
Andrew Dickens ,
Publish Date
Thu, 13 Mar 2025, 6:31am

It was a big deal for Rod Duke to go public with his concerns about his country yesterday.  

The Managing Director of Briscoe鈥檚 was announcing his company鈥檚 full year result.  

His company did well. Holding on to it鈥檚 revenue in a difficult year.  

Rod and his team have been praised for their performance over a number of years. They鈥檙e smart operators who can wring blood out of a stone. 

But it鈥檚 not part of the job description to pass comment on the government of the day. But he did.  

Which is symptomatic of today's climate.  

We鈥檙e sick of the doldrums and we want a captain to lead out out of the quicksand.  

So, Rod as a Corporate Leader said the government needs to get it鈥檚 arse into gear and do something.  

He said it鈥檚 been a year since the last lot so there鈥檚 been more than enough time to get proactive.  

He believes the closer we get to an election the more pro-active the government will get but he鈥檇 like more action now.  

But when asked what, he said it鈥檚 not his business.  

And that鈥檚 the New Zealand problem right there.  

We鈥檙e good at identifying problems but not finding solutions.  

We ask our government to do something. They don鈥檛 so we vote for the other lot. They say have the answers but they don鈥檛. And so we flip flop again with nothing happening.  

Then yesterday we had the IMF coming out saying that New Zealand needs to lower it鈥檚 corporate tax because we鈥檙e becoming uncompetitive.  

But they also say we need a capital gains tax because a country needs to balance it鈥檚 budget.    

We need to spend but we also need to raise the revenue to spend.  

So, the IMF come up with an answer.    

Is the Government reducing corporate tax. Not so far.    

Meanwhile is the Labour party championing a capital gains tax. Not so far.   

Is any party offering both? 

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