Deep doubt over National's foreign buyer tax

A boom for inner Auckland homes? Willis says the number of sales over $2 million and the share of foreign buyers that National is basing its revenue projections on are realistic. Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The Kākā

TL;DR: Pressure is mounting on National to justify its projected $2.96 billion of revenues from its foreign buyers’ tax, given tax lawyers and economists doubt the legal status of the tax and a required surge in foreign buying to collect that amount, which funds a fifth of National’s tax cuts.

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Over a fifth of National’s tax-cutting plan in serious doubt