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‘We can’t leave tax off the table’ – Willis talks up business-friendly tax tweaks
Corporate tax rate cut and relief for investors in foreign firms up for consideration.
Back to School: Mum of three’s cost-cutting uniform tips
Parents are saving hundreds being prepared and buying secondhand.
Ministry for Regulation among public service's highest earners as sector pay jumps
The average manager's salary in the public sector sits at $163,800.
How one Kiwi mum spends only $5000 a year on food for her family
In just one year, Stacey Scott has built an online following with her budgeting tips.
Influencers push 'loud budgeting' to save pennies
A new trend requires courage to say 'no' to spending.
'Restraint and moderation': Willis says no urgent need for pay rises for public servants
It comes after she warned most government departments not to expect cost pressure top-ups.
Government cuts hit budgeting agencies hard
Māngere East Family Service Centre says slashed budgets means loss of workers.
Govt cuts millions from coastal mapping project; fears communities 'in the dark'
Before the cuts, up to 85% of the coastline was going to be mapped. Now it's up to 40%.
Treasury boss Caralee McLiesh won’t seek reappointment
The Finance Minister values her 'positive working relationship' with the Treasury boss.
Finance Minister unreceptive to calls for new finance monitoring unit
New Zealand warned it's not immune from the risk that Budgets start lacking credibility.
Thomas Coughlan: Think the Budget is over? $85 billion says you’re wrong
OPINION: Details of the biggest health spend-up in NZ's history are imminent.
Opinion: A credibility gap in the Nicola Willis Budget
OPINION: National hasn’t done itself any favours on economic front with Budget delivery.
Simon Wilson: The Budget promises that are destroying us
OPINION: Sugar hits for floating voters are holding back almost all meaningful progress.
Everything you need to know about the Budget, including why your tax cut might shrink
What story does the Budget tell?
Disappointment over broken Budget promise to fund more specialists
'Short-sighted': Psychiatrists say extra registrar places have not eventuated.
Editorial: Cancer patients promised access to medicines shouldn't have to wait
OPINION: Patients – and families, friends and carers – are unlikely to forget the slight.
Willie Jackson: 2024 will go down in history as Mother of anti-Māori Budgets
OPINION: Willie Jackson says Budget 2024 was terrible for Māori.
Shane Te Pou: This was not a Budget for the ages
OPINION: The Budget tried to please too many, and will probably end up pleasing nobody.
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Watch: Nicola Willis heralds 'new era' of Govt spending in post-Budget speech
Willis said the Budget was 'the clean-up job New Zealand needs'.
'Injustice': Cancer sufferer devastated life saving drugs won't be funded
A cancer patient says the Government has broken a promise to fund more life saving meds.
PM Christopher Luxon reacts to Budget for the 'squeezed middle'
The Government has delivered its tax promise, but future Budgets will be painful.
Whānau Ora happy to work alongside Government after slight budget boost
Tamihere: 'We’ve proven ourselves and the Budget is an indication of that.'
‘Pouring money down a hole’: Extra $1b for roads dumbfounds Greens, transport expert
The Govt is moving to 'accelerate' an already $20.7b road-focused fund.
Minister accepts 500 police boost might not be achievable as promised
The deadline for the policy is November 27 next year.
'Needed': Mayor and deputy’s relief at $200m-plus lifeline for Auckland rail
$266.9m was announced to maintain metro rail in Auckland and Wellington in Budget 2024.
Claire Trevett: Willis' first Budget lacked the surprise, but it did what she'd put on the tin
OPINION: Willis delivered on what she promised - but now has a hard road ahead.