Letters: We don’t have a debt problem, we have a tax problem

Letters: We don’t have a debt problem, we have a tax problem

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Finance Minister Nicola Willis will deliver the Budget on May 22. Photo / Mark Mitchell

Finance Minister Nicola Willis will deliver the Budget on May 22. Photo / Mark Mitchell

Letters to the Editor

New Zealand has a tax problem

Nicola Willis is wrong. New Zealand doesn’t have a debt problem, it has a tax problem. Our tax base is simply too low and unfair to finance the government spending we need.

If we had proper capital gains, inheritance and wealth taxes to even

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