Aotearoa / New Zealand

In case you were wondering why National & Act were so keen to dump on poor people in order to give tax breaks to landlords, and are so keen to sell off more of our housing to overseas buyers, further doubling down on making NZ a basket case economy of selling houses to each other with a few tourism and farming bits tacked on.

“Newsroom reported donations just under the declarable limit were made in March 2019 to the foundation after a public relations consultant orchestrated a meeting with Hart's son-in-law Duncan Hawkesby and NZ First MP Clayton Mitchell. An email from the PR consultant with the subject line "re CGT" said Mitchell's stance on a capital gains tax aligned with Hawkesby's. A meeting Hart briefly attended between Hawkesby and Mitchell occurred and three donations of $14,995 were made from different companies aligned with the family. In April 2019, then Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern confirmed a capital gains tax would not be introduced saying consensus could not be reached between parties in government. ”

• a tiny investment for someone who holds billions in property. We are so easily sold out. And we’re about to be sold out yet again. Legal Corruption.