What Labour’s tax policy means for tax justice, revenue raising and the 2026 election campaign

Join us for a conversation facilitated by Max Rashbrooke, between Lisa Marriott, Kassie Hartendorp and Bill Rosenberg, who will analyse Labour’s policy and its implications for the movement for progressive tax reform in the leadup to the 2026 election.

• Date: Thursday, 6 November
• Time: 12:30-1:30pm
• Venue: Online - Register here.

Max Rashbrooke, is a writer and public intellectual, with interests in economic inequality and democratic renewal. His books include Too Much Money: How Wealth Disparities are Unbalancing Aotearoa New Zealand, Government for the Public Good: The Surprising Science of Large-Scale Collective Action and Inequality: A New Zealand Crisis. An adjunct research associate in Victoria University’s School of Government. He has recently helped launch IDEA, the Institute for Democratic and Economic Analysis, a new public policy think-tank.

Lisa Marriott is a Professor of Taxation at Victoria University of Wellington’s School of Accounting and Commercial Law. Lisa’s research interests include social justice and inequality, and the behavioural impacts of taxation. Her work is interdisciplinary covering disciplines including sociology, political science and public policy. Lisa has been awarded two Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden Grants examining elements of justice within the tax system. Lisa has worked in the private sector in the United Kingdom and in the public sector in New Zealand. For the past 15 years, Lisa has worked in academia.

Kassie Hartendorp (Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāti Tūwharetoa) is the Director at ActionStation, where she builds people-powered change for social, economic and Te Tiriti justice. Her background is in youth work, takatāpui / rainbow communities, and the trade union movement.

Bill Rosenberg is an economist, Visiting Scholar at Victoria University of Wellington Te Herenga Waka, and formerly a Commissioner of the Productivity Commission and Economist and Director of Policy at the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions. Bill is a member of the Tax Justice Aotearoa Committee and chair of TJA’s Policy Advisory Committee.

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