Tax promise unchanged: Ardern

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says ‘‘mischief is being made’’ over tax and her party’s policies haven’t changed. Both National and ACT have attacked Ardern after she failed to concretely rule out campaigning on awealth tax at the next election yesterday morning. Ardern reiterated at her post-cabinet press conference that Labour’s tax policy had not changed for this term and there were no wealth taxes on the table – indeed, she said the entire tax policy had already been implemented. ‘‘[We have] ‘‘no intention of introducing a wealth tax here in this term and we are doing no further work on it.’’ She went on to say that Labourwas not working on its 2023 election policy yet either. ‘‘We have no policy to report on. There is no election policy I am putting forward for debate.’’