In April 2020, the corporate tax take was 83 per cent down year-on-year but by September provisional tax payments had increased to 41 per cent above the previous year’s.
Alcohol tax was up a fifth from August to December and petrol tax was up nearly 50 per cent in October compared to a year earlier.
In 2019, New Zealanders only had to work until May 9 to cover their total tax bill, and in 2017, it was May 8.
Rudd said the increase in days over that period was largely due to bracket creep – the fact that wages had been increasing but the tax brackets had not.