Taxation reform demands

Press, 29 November 1979, Page 23

Taxation reform demands

A freeze on Government spending, indirect taxation, and a ban on any more commodities being subject to sales tax are demanded by the newly formed Christchurch Tax Reform Group. The group was formed at a meeting on November 25 and immediately announced that its basic aim was a 10 per cent reduction in taxation. At a meeting the next evening it developed this basic policy into a series of demands and aims. Members of the group emphasise that it does not follow any particular party policy. They point to statements made by both the Prime Minister (Mr Muldoon) and the late Mr Norman Kirk favouring tax reductions. Both main political parties were alike because they had never put this policy into practice once in power, the group said. The group has hade a call for public support and for a public campaign to press local members of Parliament to support the aim of a reduction in taxation and Government spending.