Tuesday, 12 December 2006
Vote: Bills — Taxation (Savings Investment and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill
— Third Readings
🗳️ That the Taxation (Savings Investment and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill and the Taxation (Annual Rates of Income Tax 2006-07) Bill be now read a third time
Moved by
Peter Dunne
(United Future New Zealand — Member for Ohariu-Belmont)
Dr the Hon LOCKWOOD SMITH (National—Rodney): I thank the Minister of Revenue for his response to the questions I posed during the Committee on this legislation. I appreciated that. But what he has just put to Parliament now I do not accept, and neither does... Read more →
Third Reading — this is the last vote a bill needs to
pass before it's sent off to become law. Earlier votes (first reading, second reading, and
any votes on amendments along the way) decide what the bill looks like and whether it
keeps moving forward, but this is the one that actually decides whether it happens at all.
✓ Passed by a narrow margin
(61 Ayes – 53 Noes – 7 Absent)
Hansard didn't name individual MPs for this vote, only how each party voted overall, so
there's no per-member breakdown to show here.
🏛️ Party breakdown
| Party | Aye | No |
|---|---|---|
| ACT New Zealand | 0 | 2 |
| Māori Party | 0 | 3 |
| New Zealand First | 7 | 0 |
| New Zealand Labour | 50 | 0 |
| New Zealand National | 0 | 48 |
| Progressive | 1 | 0 |
| United Future | 3 | 0 |