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Energy Minister Max Bradford and Finance Minister Bill Birch today announced the Government's direction on electricity reform.

  • Bill Birch
  • Finance

Slide 1 Economic & Public Sector Reform, 1990-1998

Slide 2 Situation of Government in 1990

  • Bill Birch
  • Finance

100,000 NZ Investors in Government Floats

  • Bill Birch
  • Finance

The Government has declined final bids from parties seeking to purchase Solid Energy, Finance Minister Bill Birch and State Owned Enterprises Minister Tony Ryall announced today.

  • Bill Birch
  • Finance

Finance Minister Rt Hon Bill Birch and State Owned Enterprises Minister Hon Tony Ryall announced today the Government would proceed with the float of nine of its commercial office properties in Wel

  • Bill Birch
  • Finance

Thank you for the opportunity to talk to you this morning, to celebrate the implementation today of income tax cuts that put $1.2 billion a year back into the pockets of taxpayers, to improve their

  • Bill Birch
  • Finance

Housing Corporation Selling MortgagesGovernment has announced that Housing Corporation of New Zealand (HCNZ) is selling mortgages held by about 8,000 clients to a WestpacTrust subsidiary for approx

  • Bill Birch
  • Finance

The Government's guarantee of shares in Auckland International Airport Limited to all New Zealanders who apply is much more than Richard Prebble ever offered Kiwi families, Finance Minister Bill Bi

  • Bill Birch
  • Finance

Ministerial interference in distribution arrangements for Auckland Airport prospectuses would be counter-productive and undesirable, Finance Minister Bill Birch and SOE Minister Tony Ryall said tod

  • Bill Birch
  • Finance

The Rt Hon Bill Birch, Minister of Finance and Revenue, and Hon Max Bradford, Minister of Energy, today rebutted Trustpower's attack on the tax consequences of electricity reform as being deceptive

  • Bill Birch
  • Finance

New Zealand was fortunate to have a Coalition Government willing to continue to place a priority on lower taxes, including lower corporate rates, Finance Minister Bill Birch said tonight.

  • Bill Birch
  • Finance

"Legislation currently before Select Committee closes a loophole in the tax treatment of Superannuation Funds investing in Group Investment Funds" the Minister of Finance and Revenue, Rt Hon Bill B

  • Bill Birch
  • Finance

Minister of Finance and Revenue, Rt Hon Bill Birch, welcomed the passing of the Electricity Industry Reform Act today saying that it "was a further step in the Government's micro-economic reform pr

  • Bill Birch
  • Finance

Finance Minister and Acting Treasurer Rt Hon Bill Birch said the increase in total overseas debt would be addressed by improving economic growth and by increased saving in the private sector.

  • Bill Birch
  • Finance

Finance Minister Bill Birch tonight announced changes in income tax collection that eliminate 1.2 million IR5 income tax returns, save taxpayers up to $60m a year in compliance costs, and create an

  • Bill Birch
  • Finance

Thank you for this opportunity to talk to you today.

The gas industry, along with the whole energy sector, has been through huge changes since I entered Parliament in 1972.

  • Bill Birch
  • Finance

The outlook for tourism and exports over the next three years is very positive, Finance Minister Rt Hon Bill Birch said today.

  • Bill Birch
  • Finance

Finance Minister and Acting Treasurer Rt Hon Bill Birch said today that the report out of the Australian National University (ANU) about the risk to the New Zealand economy was grossly misleading.

  • Bill Birch
  • Finance

Yesterday's Budget is pivotal in the evolution of Government policy:

1. As a basis for on-going business confidence 2. In the management of the Asian crisis and the current account

  • Bill Birch
  • Finance

Thank you for inviting me to speak to you this afternoon.

By now you should have had time to digest not only your meals but several interpretations of the Government's 1998 Budget.

  • Bill Birch
  • Finance

The Budget combines progress towards the fiscal objectives of the Government with substantial advances in economic and social well-being for New Zealanders, Finance Minister Bill Birch said.

  • Bill Birch
  • Finance

Tonight's proposed amendments to the Farm and Fishing Vessel Ownership Savings Acts would free up vital funds for people with accounts under those schemes, Finance Minister Bill Birch said today.

  • Bill Birch
  • Finance

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Thank you for this opportunity to talk to you today about the key decisions in the Budget and why they were made.

  • Bill Birch
  • Finance

Terms of Reference for the scoping study of the Crown's ownership interest in Television New Zealand (TVNZ) were released today by Treasurer Winston Peters, Finance Minister Bill Birch and SOE Mini

  • Bill Birch
  • Finance