Larry Williams Drive

It is a good day in New Zealand. The Government has backed down on their plans to tax your Kiwisaver.  Is this the fastest back down in the history of backdowns in this country?  Somebody needs to check David Parker for whiplash, such is the force with which he slammed the brakes on his own tax plan. It’s amazing what the team of five million can do if we work together.  From the tax experts to the fund managers to the texters on this station and the opposition parties, we have all collectively said no to Labour.  And a good bloody thing too, because had they gone through with the IR plans, we would have ended up with less money for our retirement. Individual savers with $100K in their pot would’ve lost about $20K over 25 years. Over 45 years we would’ve collectively lost $103 billion to the Government’s grasping. Yes, it is a tax on the management fee of Kiwisaver rather than the funds in Kiwisaver, but the point is the same: we end up each accumulating less to retire on.  And when you think of it like that,