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GREENS
TAX.

LABOUR
SPENDS.

FARMERS
PAY.

A change of government
will put the family farm
at risk

A Labour victory in 2026 requires a Labour-Greens-Te Pāti Māori Government – a serious threat to farming families.
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The parties have already voted or announced they would:
  • Scrap the rates cap, which limits council rates increases to 4 per cent a year leaving councils free to raise rates without limit.
  • Reinstate the ute tax which Labour, the Greens, and Te Pāti Māori voted to keep.
  • Return of the freshwater rules that imposed hundreds of millions of dollars in annual compliance costs on farmers.
  • Labour has welcomed the Greens’ tax package, built on three new taxes that fall directly on farmers.

A WEALTH TAX ON FARMERS

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A wealth tax of 2.5 percent on farms held personally would cost the average dairy farmer $68,043 a year and the average sheep and beef farmer $131,610, more than the farmer earns against a sector-wide dairy return on equity of just 0.9 per cent.

A TRUST TAX

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A tax of 1.5 percent would fall on farms held in trust, the most common ownership structure, charged on the full value from the first dollar: $70,826 a year for a dairy farm, $108,966 for sheep and beef.

THE 33 PERCENT
DEATH TAX

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A 33 percent death tax will kill intergenerational family farming. It would charge $1,228,170 when an average dairy farm passes to the next generation, and $2,067,252 for sheep and beef, forcing land sales to pay it.

Labour's capital gains tax exemption cannot be trusted. Labour says the family farm will be safe. Labour parties in Australia and the United Kingdom made the same promise and broke their commitments within months of taking office with farmers paying the price.

“Don’t bet the family farm on a Labour-led government.”

READ THE FULL REPORT HERE
Save the Family Farm: How a Labour
Coalition would end family farming

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