- rue the continual loss of talented NZers to Australia (where there is a more progressive taxation system!)
The cognitive dissonance is remarkable, although I suspect it is largely a result of ignorance that fits comfortably with a smug NZ belief that it is nicer and more progressive than Aus
I think very few on either side of the Tasman would realise that Scott Morrison presided over a more progressive tax system than Jacinda Ardern - it simply doesn't fit with popular perceptions.
Sure, when I did that post I was thinking about my experience when my company was acquired under the condition that I moved to Sydney. Even with the disparity of taxes and the capital gains tax, that did eventually materially affect me, I didn’t think twice about the move.
I’d pay a bit more, but it really wouldn’t impact my budget. In fact if we fund health care properly, then it’ll save me in the long run. I do think we should have something like a $300k+ band too
It really bugs me the way a lot of people scream as if higher income earners would be paying the highest tax rate on ALL their income, not just the bit over the threshold. Wilfully misrepresenting how progressive taxation works.
am I reading it wrong? If you make more than 10k you are paying 17.5% whereas before you paid nothing until you made 18k and even then you were paying 16%. That would mean everyone making 10k or more is paying more.
My point here is the tax levels the Greens propose re 'dangerous' yet pretty much identical to the ones in Australia already that kiwis are flocking too
the lack of balance with income distribution has nothing to do my anarchist political underpinnings
the lack of balance is an obscenity, something i'll call as way, way beyond my own multiple rape and resultant CPTSD personal history, it's a lot bigger than my problems
When we came home from Oz in 2017, my husband started his new job on the same salary he had in Oz. His take home pay in NZ was less than Australia because of our tax rates here. Not only that, but we still qualified for family support in Oz. Here, we were well over the threshold.
There would be a good political argument to suggest they should just copy the Aus tax brackets exactly. It would then be very easy to shut down a lot of the criticism that it is somehow communist by simply stating that it is exactly the same as Australia's (obviously not communist) income tax system
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May well be that the most disenfranchised don't get it back because they fail to claim
The media seems to be able to simultaneously
- paint any suggestion to make the tax system more progressive as risking a flight of talented people from the country, and
The cognitive dissonance is remarkable, although I suspect it is largely a result of ignorance that fits comfortably with a smug NZ belief that it is nicer and more progressive than Aus
why are you taxing poor people nearly 20% while your highest bracket is barely upper middle class? this seems pretty regressive, relatively
and before (in NZ) you pay tax on everything. This is comparing Australian tax rates to the greens proposal not current tax here.
it's so very easy to see actual comparisons
use dollars, not percentages, per person
i can't be arsed creating an example, anyone reading Rob's thread, do the numbers urself
then compare the number of, say, care workers who's total income is paid for by the privileged 1%'s tax rate
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the lack of balance is an obscenity, something i'll call as way, way beyond my own multiple rape and resultant CPTSD personal history, it's a lot bigger than my problems
#nzpol
#nzpol