What ‘Jack and Jill’ can teach us about the (un)fairness of capital gains taxes
- Written by Richard Meade, Senior Research Fellow in Economics and Social Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, and Adjunct Associate Professor, Centre for Applied Energy Economics and Policy Research, Griffith University
In New Zealand, capital gains tax debates spring up like zombies. Each time they get killed off, back to life they come.
New Zealand already has some types of capital gains taxes – such as the bright-line test (which taxes residential land bought and sold within two years) and taxes on other various activities. So the debate is more about...
