Another bonanza for government

To carry on from my last letter ‘Government gets money too easily’ ( e Weekend Sun, February 17), it should be noted that governments sometimes get up to other ‘tricks’. In the 1970s wage-earners paid no tax on their deductions for the equivalent of Kiwisaver contributions and the employer contribution was tax-free to the employee.

Now employee

Kiwisaver deductions are fully taxed and the employer subsidy is taxed at the employee’s highest rate, diverted at source. In other words – of your total Kiwisaver funding the Government grabs about 25 per cent to 33 per cent straight away. So Kiwisaver, too, is a bonanza for Government.

Further, if a Capital Gains Tax is implemented, as threated, it will hit most Kiwisaver funds hard.

Bill Capamagian, Tauranga City.

The biggest scourge on NZ is ageism

Re: Patricia Wilson’s letter ‘Total Arrogance and disrespect’ ( e Sun, February 17). Good on you Patricia – not only is Hunter Wells totally arrogant, he is also ageist!

e biggest scourge on this country is not racism but ageism!

To say he doesn’t apportion any credit for building our roads,