Woods Megan: General DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeWoods Megan: General Debate[Sitting date: 13 April 2016. Volume:713;Page:10470. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Dr MEGAN WOODS (Labour—Wigram): We have heard it all. We have just heard from the member who has just sat down Michael Woodhouse who came down here and said: “I don’t like the way Andrew Little tabled his tax records.” Well I put it to that member—if John Key has nothing to hide if he has nothing to run from and nothing to fear then why does he not come down to this House and show us his tax records? Let us have some transparency from this Government on tax. It would make a change.We saw it all again in question time today—the man of many hats is back. This time he is even more slippery he is even more evasive but he is back. He is trying to dance on the head of a pin. This is the man who sat back and watched a dirty-tricks campaign being run out of his office. This time he is back here in the House trying to tell us he cannot answer whether or not the Bahamas are a tax haven. That is what we heard today from the Prime Minister. Well Prime Minister Google it. Get a brochure from the Bahamas tourism office; it is how they market themselves. But he is back and he is on the side of people avoiding; he is on the side of people evading. He is shushing his way through. He is on the side of people who are money-laundering and people who are hiding stolen assets.What does this mean for you and me? You Mr Speaker as I am sure pay your taxes. What does this mean for the people who pay their PAYE for the business owners who pay their tax for the companies that pay their tax? Internationally this tax avoidance this tax evasion and this money-laundering ultimately end up with people paying more tax. When the mega-wealthy decide that they are going to hide it away then it falls on middle New Zealand to pick up the pieces in this country.This is the side our Prime Minister has taken. He has decided he is going to protect that. He is going to defend that rather than say we need to have fair tax and we need to make sure that people pay their fair share. This is not the kind of country that any of us want. It certainly is not the kind of country where we make sure that people pay their fair share and we spend it on health we spend it on education we spend it on housing and we spend it on building the Kiwi Dream rather than sheltering people who are doing wrong and spending their time in Parliament defending it.Then we had a very limited game of defence played by the Government members today. Obviously they were not queuing up at procedures to ask for a call in this general debate because they knew what was coming. It was Gerry who came down and I have to give the Minister a sub-par performance. It really was not up to Gerry’s normal standard—Mr SPEAKER: Order!Dr MEGAN WOODS: —the Minister’s standard. But then I guess that particular Minister remembers that it was the Prime Minister who is quoted as saying “I’ve told Gerry to deliver me a paper that has a zero rating of funds and we’ll work on that.” when he was in the role of Minister for Economic Development.Then we had what can only be described as a bizarre speech from Michael Woodhouse. This is the man who thinks that worm farming and growing lavender are two of the most dangerous occupations that we can have in this country. He decided that he was going to try to have a sledge and have a go but it backfired. This is a Government that will not fess up. It got it wrong. It was out of touch with New Zealanders when the Prime Minister shrugged his shoulders and said: “There’s nothing to see here. Move along. We’re not a tax haven.”The polling shows that that is not what New Zealanders think. That is not what they think out there in my electorate of Wigram and it is not what they think all around the country. This is a Prime Minister who is showing he is arrogant he is out of touch and he is not on the side of the people who want a fair go.