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The Green Party on Economy and Taxes
The Greens support a systematic reform of our tax system along ecological lines: “We will move to shift taxes off work and enterprise, and onto waste, pollution and scarce resources. Those who waste and those who pollute, pay more. Clean business pays less and everyone pays less income tax”.
The Greens strongly support a tax-free zone at the bottom end of the income scale and will be announcing this threshold soon.
The Green Party welcomes the fund “but emphasises that the involvement of independent scientists are essential to avoid self-interested industry-capture of funding and to preserve transparency of process in the Government-industry partnership.”
The Greens support retaining GST on food. “Cuts to the bottom rate of income tax, plus the introduction of a Universal Child Benefit, are more efficient ways of putting more money in the hands of the households who need it most.”
The Greens would like to see a review of the Reserve Bank Act with a view to amending the targets the Reserve Bank is responsible for meeting.
The Greens see a role for toll roads in some circumstances. “We do not support the building of private toll roads and are still to be convinced of any benefits to private-public partnerships”.