Hipkins, Edmonds, and Revenue Spokeswoman Deborah Russel<\/a>l last week on matters of tax to suggest the party was keen on additional taxes.<\/p>\n\u201cThey\u2019re telling Fitch one story to make out that they\u2019re fiscally prudent and telling New Zealanders another,\u201d Willis said.<\/p>\n
Fitch regularly comes to New Zealand to meet with policymakers and politicians to inform its ratings assessments. It is not unusual for Fitch to meet with Labour, given the possibility it will be in power by the end of the year.<\/p>\n
The Herald has been asking Fitch since March 25 to clarify what was said in the meeting and whether Labour promised additional taxes or whether the party simply did not clarify that the CGT revenue was not going to be used for fiscal consolidation. Fitch has not given the Herald an answer to this question.<\/p>\n
Edmonds met with Fitch as it was putting its report together. Hipkins was not part of that meeting.<\/p>\n
Speaking ahead of Labour\u2019s caucus meeting on March 24, Edmonds said she discussed \u201cnew revenue measures such as a targeted capital gains tax\u201d with Fitch.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s why it was featured in the report,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n
On Tuesday, the Herald asked Edmonds whether she had told Fitch the money raised from the CGT had all been ring-fenced for new spending.<\/p>\n
Asked whether the fact the CGT revenue was being spent had come up, Edmonds said: \u201cI don\u2019t think that came up in the conversation.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe talked more generally about health and the ageing population,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hipkins said he \u201cabsolutely would reject any suggestion\u201d that Edmonds misled Fitch by not telling the agency about…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3041,65187,3595,1288,5399,20134,18432,24851,71,13988,42,134,69063,702,6721,2845,101,5983,207204,207203,300,43,20484,5006,4762,26346,2171,29056,2081,10465,4887,312,9095,14040,8262,2373,13917,40,38,41,39,792],"class_list":["post-401736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-agency","tag-alleges","tag-by","tag-capital","tag-debt","tag-deficit","tag-did","tag-fitch","tag-from","tag-gains","tag-headlines","tag-health","tag-insists","tag-it","tag-labour","tag-leaving","tag-left","tag-levels","tag-mentioning","tag-mislead","tag-money","tag-news","tag-nicola","tag-not","tag-party","tag-planned","tag-plans","tag-proposed","tag-raised","tag-ratings","tag-reduce","tag-says","tag-secret","tag-spend","tag-spending","tag-taxes","tag-telling","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-willis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}