Barry Soper: Should the Government celebrate today's pre-election fiscal update?
National's leader is praising the much rosier set of Government books revealed today, but much of it's down to taking more tax.
Today's pre-election fiscal update shows the planned 2028/29 surplus will be nearly $2 billion dollars bigger than forecast, and the Crown will borrow less.
Treasury's also predicting unemployment's peaked and inflation will be down to 2 percent next year.
Newstalk ZB senior political correspondent Barry Soper explained further.
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