Taxpayers to finally catch a break

By Christopher Luxon, Prime Minister and MP for Botany

Welcome to 2024.

I hope everybody on the market loved a while with family and friends over the Christmas-New Yr interval.

I had a beautiful summer season spending time with my household and getting some residence tasks executed – which included some water blasting and portray a shed.

This yr goes to be nice with a lot for the Authorities to ship and, similar to my shed, we’re going to get it executed.

Already we’ve seen some nice outcomes on account of this Authorities’s actions.

Over the summer season, the coalition Authorities listened to the well being sector who have been involved concerning the improve in frequent violent incidents in emergency departments.

The security of the well being workforce and sufferers is a precedence, so eight emergency departments throughout the nation – 4 Auckland hospitals, together with Waikato, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin – every acquired a further 5 safety workers for an prolonged interval till the top of February.

We have been happy to see experiences from Middlemore Hospital, the place it was famous that violent incidents have practically halved for the reason that Well being Minister Dr Shane Reti stepped up with further safety.

There’s no place for individuals being abusive or aggressive in the direction of workers, who’re doing their very best for his or her fellow New Zealanders in typically anxious conditions, so we’re happy to see optimistic outcomes from this Authorities’s fast motion.

A spotlight for the coalition Authorities is on college students’ faculty achievement. For too lengthy, our training system has delivered poor outcomes for learners, however we plan to show this round.

That’s why, in our first 100 days, the coalition Authorities moved with urgency to take away distractions from lecture rooms by banning cellular phone use throughout the faculty day so as to carry engagement and achievement.

This may begin from Time period 2 this yr for all faculties.

This Authorities has excessive aspirations for our learners and we refuse to go away important studying to likelihood.

In 2024, we can even present tax reduction to assist hardworking Kiwi households take care of the cost-of-living disaster.

It is a Authorities that believes basically that individuals should preserve extra of what they earn. After six years of being handled like a bottomless ATM, taxpayers are lastly going to catch a break.

I look ahead to asserting extra particulars round tax reduction for low-and-middle revenue earners within the coming months.

Kiwis voted for a Authorities centered on the problems that matter and there’s a lot of labor to do to guarantee that we ship.

I look ahead to a yr of supply.