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Comments on: Excise taxes and policy incoherence in New Zealand http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2022/03/15/excise-taxes-and-policy-incoherence-in-new-zealand/ The Visible Hand in Economics Fri, 01 Apr 2022 19:30:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: NZ Public Service and Economics – TVHE http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2022/03/15/excise-taxes-and-policy-incoherence-in-new-zealand/#comment-43845 Fri, 01 Apr 2022 19:30:15 +0000 http://www.tvhe.co.nz/?p=14277#comment-43845 […] with Eric Crampton noting a lack of trained economists in government as a key concern. Given the recent incoherent experience of rushed policy and advice on fuel taxes this seems like quite a pertinent […]

]]> By: Economissive http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2022/03/15/excise-taxes-and-policy-incoherence-in-new-zealand/#comment-43842 Tue, 15 Mar 2022 21:04:15 +0000 http://www.tvhe.co.nz/?p=14277#comment-43842 Agree with the general thrust here and Brad Olsen – maybe NZ’s best public facing economist after our effective retirements (sorry Eric, you’re good too, but Brad uses less jargon and I personally agree with him more!) – has been making the same point asking what’s the problem and why not have social welfare and tax credit supports.

On this: “With indexed benefits and minimum wages this support of the most vulnerable is already happening”… benefits are now indexed to wages not CPI. The benefit increase in April is set to be 2 percentage points lower than inflation.

]]> By: Eric Crampton http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2022/03/15/excise-taxes-and-policy-incoherence-in-new-zealand/#comment-43841 Mon, 14 Mar 2022 19:40:54 +0000 http://www.tvhe.co.nz/?p=14277#comment-43841 I have been lambasting the Taxpayers Union, publicly, for the past week for their lobbying for this nonsense. I was on RNZ The Panel and Newstalk’s Early Edition calling the policy stupid. This week’s column in Newsroom goes through some of the stupidity – I didn’t want to go past 1200 words. I’d told Henry Cook last week that a petrol excise holiday was stupid and pitched Carbon Dividends instead, as those will help people adjust to long-term higher energy prices. I literally don’t know what more I could have done on this one in the short time interval between “some stupid thing that the taxpayers union is pushing to enlist the hooples’ donations” and “it’s being announced tomorrow.”

Dunno what think tank you think was pushing this one. Sure as hell wasn’t my shop.

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