Time for a Tax Law Commission to restore the Generic Tax Policy Process

This week my guest is Matthew Handford, a solicitor in the Mayne Wetherell tax team and another of the four finalists for this year's Tax Policy Charitable Trust Scholarship competition. The Tax Policy Charitable Trust was established by Tax Management New Zealand and its founder Ian Kuperus to encourage future tax policy leaders and support leading tax policy thinking in Aotearoa. Matthew is proposing a Tax Law Commission, independent of Inland Revenue, to restore the Generic Tax Policy Process. Under Matthew’s proposal, a TLC would have a standing mandate to systematically review the operation of New Zealand’s tax laws and make recommendations for their improvement.