BusinessNZ submits that the appropriate way to control climate emissions is at the Country level (as is the norm globally) and that this is already being done by the The Climate Change Response Act 2002 (the Act). The Act establishes the legal framework for New Zealand’s regulatory response to climate...
From a policy sense, New Zealand’s GST system is one of the simplest in the world, built on a broad-based, low-rate regime that is widely regarded as a model for other jurisdictions. BusinessNZ’s starting point is that any changes should maintain that structure while keeping the system as comprehensive and...
BusinessNZ broadly supports the proposed legislative changes for intermediaries and considers that the proposals will reduce compliance costs, modernise the existing intermediary framework and better reflect how the tax services market currently operates. However, BusinessNZ considers that the proposals represent an incremental adjustment rather than the meaningful step change in...
BusinessNZ has submitted to the Education and Workforce Select Committee on the Modern Slavery Bill, supporting the objective of supply chain transparency but urging significant refinements to the legislation. Key concerns include the risk of compliance obligations cascading down to SMEs, duplication with existing Australian, UK and EU reporting requirements,...
With this work the EA is proposing updates to the Distributed Generation Pricing Principles (DGPPs) to promote and unlock efficient investment and network usage, and to help reduce the cost of supply to consumers. In principle BEC is supportive of this ambition and agrees that network pricing should evolve alongside...
Submission by ExportNZ and BusinessNZ on the International Treaty Examination of the Free Trade Agreement between the Government of New Zealand and the Government of India.
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