28 NOVEMBER 2018
If the Tax Working Group recommends an inheritance tax in all-but-name, the Government should declare it
dead-on-arrival, says the New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union in response to comments made by Sir Michael Cullen in Wellington today.
Taxpayers’ Union spokesman Louis Houlbrooke says, “The Government ruled an inheritance tax out of scope in the Tax Working Group’s Terms
of Reference, but Sir Michael Cullen says a majority of the Group has found a way to include it. Warping a capital gains
tax to implement a death tax by stealth would be a betrayal of those terms.”
“Taxpayers were told the role of the Working Group was to modernise the tax system. It’s actual task appears to be
preparing the country for an ideological tax grab.”
ENDS