National Party leader Simon Bridges has announced National would refund six months’ GST payments to businesses that have lost money due to Covid 19. Businesses would no doubt welcome this windfall. But businesses only collect GST from their customers and pass it on to the government.
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People Over Profits: What It Means To Be An Inclusive Society
Congratulations to Jacinda Ardern and the Government for being prepared to put people over profits and quickly go for a level 4 lockdown to contain the spread of the coronavirus. Without this, many more lives would have been lost. But can they hold their nerve as investors panic about the shrinking value of their share portfolios and business owners/ managers worry that profits will not increase this year?
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Time is something many of us have on our hands at the moment if we are self isolating. For once, there is time to think, and there is a lot worth thinking about.
The first thing to think about is that, for perhaps the first time, essential services have been defined and essential workers have been identified. Sadly, the pay rates of many of our essential workers do not reflect the importance of their work. We can’t manage without them. They can’t self isolate, no matter how much they would like to. Our cleaners, rubbish collectors, supermarket workers, courier drivers, and care workers are among the lowest paid workers in the country. Clearly that needs to change, immediately.
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