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GST in New Zealand is designed to be a broad-based system with few exemptions, such as for rents collected on residential rental properties, donations, precious metals and financial services. [1] It normally makes up around 30% of tax revenue in New Zealand. [2] The rate for GST, effective since 1 October 2010 is 15%. [3]
These are collected by a range of government agencies such as the New Zealand Customs Service. There is no social security (payroll) tax. New Zealand went through a major program of tax reform in the 1980s. The top marginal rate of income tax was reduced from 66% to 33% (changed to 39% in April 2000, 38% in April 2009, 33% on 1 October 2010 and ...
The Act established a consumption tax in New Zealand, originally set at 10%, but subsequently raised to 15%. GST is a tax of 15% on all goods, services and other items sold or consumed in New Zealand. Individuals become liable to pay GST when their annual turnover exceeds NZ$60,000 in any 12-month period. [1]
High-limit disability insurance is designed to keep individual disability benefits at 65% of income regardless of income level. Coverage is typically issued supplemental to standard coverage. With high-limit disability insurance, benefits can be anywhere from an additional $2,000 to $100,000 per month.
Since the implementation of the federal GST in 1990, PEI's 10% PST has been charged on the subtotal of goods which included the federal GST; PST was not charged on services. This resulted in a combined tax of 17.7% for goods purchased before the 7% GST was reduced to 6% and then 5% in 2006 and 2008 respectively.
Add also the Canada Disability Savings Grant, if the beneficiary's income is $75,769 or less for an additional $3,500/yr,(for each $1.00 that is deposited to the RDSP, the government will match that up to $3.00 prorated to the beneficiary's income) to a lifetime maximum of $70,000. This works out such that, if the beneficiary over the age of 18 ...
Treasury figures show that top income-earners in New Zealand pay between 6% and 8% of their income on GST. Those at the bottom end, earning less than $356 a week, spend between 11% and 14% on GST. Based on these figures, The New Zealand Herald predicted that putting GST up to 15% would increase living costs for the poor more than twice as much ...
Rogernomics, however, has been credited with a number of other positive impacts on the New Zealand economy: [54] inflation, which had reached a high of 17.15% in 1980, has been in single digits every year since the end of Douglas' tenure as finance minister; [55] and income tax rates were halved, [54] while gross national income per capita ...