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Kōrero: Taxes

Arnold Nordmeyer

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Arnold Nordmeyer

Arnold Nordmeyer, minister of finance from 1957 to 1960, presented his first budget on 26 June 1958. It was dubbed the ‘Black Budget’ by the National opposition as it made sharp increases in indirect taxes.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP/1958/2137

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Paul Goldsmith, Taxes – Post-war taxation – 1950 to 1959, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/21546/arnold-nordmeyer (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Paul Goldsmith, i tāngia i te 27 October 2009, updated 2 September 2016.