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Taxpayer Talk
Taxpayer Talk with Peter Williams: Hon Ruth Richardson on Budget 2025
Ruth Richardson was one of the country’s most courageous and controversial Minister’s of Finance. She remains a deep thinker on the country’s dangerous fiscal position and how we can extract ourselves from it.
With this year’s Budget only a few weeks away, she proposes some of the major surgery she believes the New Zealand economy has to endure.
In this edition of Taxpayer Talk she addresses - among other matters - universal superannuation payments, the health system and the corporate tax rate. Ruth Richardson wants her successor as the National Party Finance Minister to be bold. But do they have the courage to?