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National leader Christopher Luxon said they knew in their tax cut package that only 3,000 households would receive the full headline figure of $250 a fortnight, but claimed it was not misleading to promote it as going towards the "average". income family”. The most important part, Luxon said, was for the party to include the phrase "up to $250" in its tax package document. The statement came during a campaign day dominated by strong accusations from both main parties about the tax plans. Labor leader Chris Hipkins accused National of "", pointing out numerous speeches, interviews and press releases in which National stated that the average income family with children would receive the full amount, without specifying "up to". "National will provide tax relief to working New Zealanders, and an average-income family with young children will receive $250 a fortnight under our plan," finance spokeswoman Nicola Willis said in a Sept. 21 press release. Willis said New Zealanders were not "stupid" and believed it was clear most households would not receive the full amount. “Let's not treat New Zealanders like idiots. The expression 'up to' is easily understood. People know this is not a guarantee; They know that's the maximum value you can get out of it.” It confirmed that the average New Zealander of about 1.4 million people would have close to $30 a fortnight and that families with children would save more. The decision comes after an analysis by the Council of Trade Unions found that only 3000 of New Zealand's 1.63 million households, or 0.18 per cent, would benefit from the full tax break. National's tax plan says the "Back Pocket Increase" would "increase after-tax wages for the squeezed middle, median income of $120,000, those who are better off by up to $250 a fortnight, and with family children who have one child on average incomes." . Free households are better off with up to $100 every two weeks.” The cut will come from a combination of adjustments to brackets, increases in credits those on "modest incomes", breaks childcare costs and increases in Working Families payments working families, it said. Willis pushed back, arguing that the "real scam" was Labor claiming in some adverts that the GST policy on fruit and veg would cut prices by a full 15 per cent, some of which would be absorbed by businesses to manage it. Hipkins said he was confident 15 per cent savings in GST would be passed on due to assurances from supermarket chains that it would be passed on and the oversight of grocery commissioner. National spent a full day responding to media questions about the figures; He initially responded only with attacks from campaign chairman Chris Bishop, who called it "gap politics" and attempted to discredit its origins by pointing out that CTU chief economist Craig Renney was a former adviser. Robertson and some of his PR consultants had also worked with the Labor Party. Renney told Herald that National's a
