Rob Campbell has a view as do we all.
https://www.newsroom.co.nz/how-to-st...society-add-up
I'll pick the bits I like.
Major party discussion on this has become bizarrely focused on who will reduce which tax. This at a time when there is widespread acceptance that we face huge infrastructure deficits in everything from housing to hospitals, transport to training, flood protection to food security. When the big problem is how can we afford to face these deficits, we talk about how we can escape paying.
30 years of avoidance has been successful so far, kick the can down the road, use debt and print money?? People don't notice an inflation tax so much, not asset owners anyway.
Taxes on wealth in various forms are declared off limits by several political parties. There are different versions of these – land, capital gains, asset, inheritance. We are an outlier tax haven on all these matters.
Any party not facing the facts of social and infrastructure deficits, the urgent need to address them, and getting the money to do that, does not deserve your time or your vote.
If we exclude ACT, National and Labour as Rob suggests the choices are getting limited.