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Treasurer Bill English said the Alliance's economic policy released today would create further nervousness about monetary policy under a Labour-Alliance government and could explain Helen Clark's r

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Treasurer Bill English said today papers from Treasury showed that the Government needed to keep a careful control over new spending.

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Treasurer Bill English said Labour's claim that its industry and competition policies would encourage the country's brightest and best to stay defied logic when Labour also planned to increase taxe

  • Bill English
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Treasurer Bill English said today National's calculations of the cost of Labour's promises had flushed out Dr Cullen's clever distinctions on spending.

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Treasurer Bill English said today Labour now needed to explain whether it had abandoned debt repayment as a key plank of economic policy.

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Treasurer Bill English questioned today whether Labour leader Helen Clark was at odds with her finance spokesman over economic issues.

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Treasurer Bill English said today that Helen Clark's comments on changing the Reserve Bank's Policy Targets Agreement (PTA) created uncertainty over monetary policy and could unsettle the financial

  • Bill English
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Treasurer Bill English welcomed today's announcement of changes to Trans-Tasman investment rules, and said New Zealand businesses would benefit by being able to invest more freely in Australia.

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Treasurer Bill English today released figures showing projected changes to Vote: Police over the next five years.

  • Bill English
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Treasurer Bill English announced today that a long-standing debt of $14 million owed by Peru had been forgiven.

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Treasurer Bill English said today the Labour Party's 'say nothing, be nothing' approach did not constitute an election debate.

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Treasurer Bill English said today the Government's position on the sale of assets had not changed.

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Treasurer Bill English said Labour was showing its true colours with its determination to move backwards on ACC.

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Finance Minister Bill English rebuffed suggestions that there was nothing in the Budget for tertiary students when he attended a student forum at Otago University in Dunedin today.

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Revenue Minister Bill English said today the position on stamp duty was clear.

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Revenue Minister Bill English said today that Labour was making up tax policy on the hoof to maintain the credibility of its high tax plans.

  • Bill English
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Revenue Minister Bill English said a bill introduced into Parliament today protected tax revenue by closing loopholes in
GST and income tax law.

  • Bill English
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A bill introduced into Parliament today clarifies the tax consequences of the forthcoming dissolution of the New Zealand Raspberry Marketing Council, its committees and the Raspberry Marketing Expo

  • Bill English
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Finance Minister Bill English said today that the substantial drop in the cost of owning and operating a car reported by the AA was the sort of hard evidence that proved the benefits of good econom

  • Bill English
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In a first for New Zealand, Finance Minister Bill English will be going on-line on Budget day to answer questions from New Zealanders about Budget 99.

  • Bill English
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Finance Minister Bill English said today he was surprised the Labour Party had got caught up in a private company's efforts to extract $2.41 million of taxpayers' money in compensation out of the G

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Finance Minister Bill English said today claims he was seeking special treatment to avoid giving evidence in a court case were nonsense, and that he was doing everything he could to protect the tax

  • Bill English
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The Treasury paper on Monetary Union reported in the Dominion this morning is a Treasury think piece, not advice prepared for Government Mr Birch said this morning

  • Bill English
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Fisheries Minister John Luxton and Finance Minister Bill English today announced the early establishment of a working party to consider the revamp of the Fisheries Cost Recovery regime.

  • Bill English
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