The Greens’ Northland candidate wants to put capital gains tax back on the table.
Lawyer Reina Tuai Penney from Te Rarawa, Ngāpuhi, and Maniapoto has been working with Māori housing advocacy group Te Matapihi, as well as taking on a range of community roles in the far north.
She says some people are rorting the property market, while others struggle to afford rent.
“How fair is it that everybody gets taxed but the people who own properties don’t get capital gains tax? Not on your whānau home (but) if you’re making a buck out of it and using houses as a business then you should get charged for it. And the Green Party is the only party that’s really pushed capital gains tax. Labour didn’t want a bar of it but the Green Party wanted to push capital gains tax because it’s unfair, it’s inequitable,” she says.
It’s a crowded field for Northland – Reina Tuai Penney is up against Labour incumbent Willow-Jean Prime, New Zealand First’s Shane Jones, and Maungatūroto farmer Grant McCallum is trying to win the seat back for National, while former Northland MP Matt King intends to run under the DemocracyNZ banner.
