An OECD report shows that New Zealand has almost the lowest “Tax wedge” (Individual tax as a percentage of labour costs) in the OECD. Enter Russell Norman attempting to claim that “the report showed the Government was misleading people that New Zealand had high taxes, to justify tax cuts for the highest-earners”. Unfortunately, the Herald [...]

“Healthcare NZ’s ‘biggest threat’ – OECD” blares the headline, which nearly sent it straight to my spam journalism series, but the underlying article is interesting. It is the OECD report on New Zealand’s economy. “With the risk of a baseline level of debt much higher than expected before the [global economic] crisis, controlling future health [...]