Peter Dunne's newsletter, sent yesterday, said: "The business tax reduction proposals I announced with Michael Cullen in the Business Tax Review in July will go ahead from April 2008, and they will be accompanied by personal tax adjustments as well, just as we foreshadowed." They would be "the first major cuts by either government since 1996 " , when he was also revenue minister . Before Peter Dunne announced the tax cuts  the Government had denied any tax cut proposals until November/December when they could see a clearer picture. New Zealand First, another political partner of the government, claimed credit in its annual convention  that they were the ones who convinced Labour the value of tax cuts and changing the personal thresholds. Cullen last week said, when he was announced the surplus; "We are engaged in a business taxation review that will almost certainly produce proposals for tax cuts in the business area to come into force on 1 April 2008 . . . and that may have implications for personal tax rates and thresholds, but I can't give you more information because (it is) not available."
Peter Dunne's newsletter, sent yesterday, said: "The business tax reduction proposals I announced with Michael Cullen in the Business Tax Review in July will go ahead from April 2008, and they will be accompanied by personal tax adjustments as well, just as we foreshadowed." They would be "the first major cuts by either government since 1996. " Peter Dunne was the Revenue minister in 1996 as well . Before Peter Dunne announced the tax cuts , the Government had denied any tax cut proposals until November/December when they could see a clearer picture. New Zealand First, another political partner of the government, claimed credit in its annual convention on Sunday that they were the ones who convinced Labour the value of tax cuts and changing the personal thresholds. Cullen last week said, when he announced the surplus; "We are engaged in a business taxation review that will almost certainly produce proposals for tax cuts in the business area to come into force on 1 April 2008 . . . and that may have implications for personal tax rates and thresholds, but I can't give you more information because it is not available."
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1996.
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, when he was also revenue minister
Peter Dunne was the Revenue minister in 1996 as well
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,
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on Sunday
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was
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(it is)
it is