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Budget openness survey has mixed news for NZ

Opinion by Max Rashbrooke on May 25, 2020

Earlier this month the results of the latest Open Budget Survey were released – and they make mixed reading for New Zealand, despite our high overall score. The Open Budget Survey is one of those classic international comparison tools, in which independent observers run the rule over a country’s practices in a particular area –…

Building a bridge across the coronavirus ravine

Opinion by Max Rashbrooke on April 24, 2020

Yesterday I had the pleasure of appearing in front of the Epidemic Response Committee in a session about the potential economic and social shape of the recovery from coronavirus. My fellow speakers were Rod Drury, Traci Houpapa, Ian Proudfoot, Oliver Hartwich and Ayesha Verrall. The video of the session is here; below is a version,…

More political donations ideas

Opinion by Max Rashbrooke on March 19, 2020

Political donations are once more back in the news, and the Spinoff has been running a series looking at different ways to clean up this mess. I have two pieces in the series: an account of the history of donation scandals, and how we got here; and two ideas for building a much better system….

A wealth tax for New Zealand

Opinion by Max Rashbrooke on January 31, 2020

Tax Justice Aotearoa have just published my paper on the case for a net wealth tax in New Zealand. Below is a brief summary of the proposal. The idea A wealth tax would be a small annual levy, perhaps 1% or 2%, paid by individuals on the wealth they have above a certain threshold, perhaps…

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