{"id":3300,"date":"2023-02-22T18:00:54","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T05:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=3300"},"modified":"2023-02-22T18:00:54","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T05:00:54","slug":"chris-hipkins-tax-blunder-crime-hysteria-as-parliament-gets-back-to-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=3300","title":{"rendered":"Chris Hipkins&#8217; tax blunder, crime &#8216;hysteria&#8217; as Parliament gets back to business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sics-component__html-injector sics-component__story__intro sics-component__story__paragraph\">The Labour and National parties swapped barbs during Prime Minster Chris Hipkins\u2019 first question time in the leader\u2019s chair, with comments about \u201chysteria\u201d and suggestions of hypocrisy as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sics-component__html-injector sics-component__story__paragraph\">While questions from National\u2019s Christopher Luxon and Nicola Willis pushed Labour\u2019s front bench to return fire, two questions from ACT \u2013 about\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/national\/300810599\/eskdale-resident-furious-at-napier-shooting-and-looting-following-cyclone\">crime during the cyclone recovery<\/a>, and tax \u2013 raised eyebrows across Parliament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sics-component__html-injector sics-component__story__paragraph\">ACT leader David Seymour asked Hipkins about his government\u2019s approach to taxation. Was Hipkins comfortable with the proportion of taxation compared to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/business\/130397566\/economists-look-ahead-to-2023-with-fear-and-anxiety\">national GDP<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p class=\"sics-component__html-injector sics-component__story__paragraph\">Hipkins responded, \u201cOur government is actually taking less tax out of the economy as a proportion of the economy than when we became the Government.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"cx-section-module\" data-cx_x8i9=\"\"><strong>More from Stuff:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>*\u00a0<a id=\"cXLinkIdlef7hjdh6wxm55om\" class=\"cx-item\" title=\"Quiz: Morning quiz: February 22, 2023\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/national\/quizzes\/300809344\/quiz-morning-quiz-february-22-2023\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"noopener\">Quiz: Morning quiz: February 22, 2023<\/a><\/div>\n<div>*\u00a0<a id=\"cXLinkIdlef7hjdhuheouzuj\" class=\"cx-item\" title=\"Race organisers criticised for lack of communication after mass rescue in Otago\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/national\/300813127\/mass-rescue-after-bad-weather-and-flooding-leave-athletes-trapped-in-otago-ultramarathon\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"noopener\">Race organisers criticised for lack of communication after mass rescue in Otago<\/a><\/div>\n<div>*\u00a0<a id=\"cXLinkIdlef7hjdh2vjfgz8j\" class=\"cx-item\" title=\"Chris Hipkins lays down gauntlet to Christopher Luxon as Parliament gets cracking\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/national\/politics\/131293870\/chris-hipkins-lays-down-gauntlet-to-christopher-luxon-as-parliament-gets-cracking\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"noopener\">Chris Hipkins lays down gauntlet to Christopher Luxon as Parliament gets cracking<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"sics-component__html-injector sics-component__story__paragraph\">But the Treasury\u2019s figures showed that, from 2015 to 2018, tax revenue as a percentage of GDP sat about 27%.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>source Rnz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Labour and National parties swapped barbs during Prime Minster Chris Hipkins\u2019 first question time in the leader\u2019s chair, with comments about \u201chysteria\u201d and suggestions of hypocrisy as well. While questions from National\u2019s Christopher Luxon and Nicola Willis pushed Labour\u2019s front bench to return fire, two questions from ACT \u2013 about\u00a0crime during the cyclone recovery, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3302,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3300\/revisions\/3302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}