2009 New Zealand budget

The New Zealand budget for fiscal year 2009-2010 was presented to the New Zealand House of Representatives by Finance Minister Bill English on 28 May 2009.[2]

2009 (2009) New Zealand budget

Submitted by	Bill English
Parliament	Parliament of New Zealand
Party	National
Total revenue	$58.8 billion[1]
Total expenditures	$62.3 billion[1]
Deficit	-$2.9 billion[1]
Debt	$15.4 billion (Net)[1] 8.7% (Net debt to GDP)[1]
^ǂNumbers in italics are projections. ‹ 2008 2010 ›

This was the first budget Bill English has presented as Minister of Finance.

Outline

The fifth National Government's first Budget was delivered with the New Zealand economy in recession from the last quarter of 2007,[3] and a Global Financial Crisis and rising national debt.

The 2009 Budget included new spending of $5.8 billion to "help maintain economic activity and to support jobs". New spending included a home insulation and clean heating campaign, infrastructure investment and a national cycleway network.

The Budget confirmed 2009 tax cuts but deferred the second and third tranches of planned tax cuts in 2010 and 2011 as "unaffordable". Automatic contributions to the New Zealand Super Fund were suspended. $2 billion of planned spending by the previous Government's was reprioritised.

Budget 2009 forecast gross debt to peak at 43% of GDP in 2016/17.

References

1. "Minister's Executive Summary" (PDF). New Zealand Treasury. 28 May 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 February 2016. Retrieved 20 March 2015.
2. "Budget 2010". New Zealand Treasury. 20 May 2010. Retrieved 18 March 2015.
3. "How bad is the Current Recession? Labour Market Downturns since the 1960s". Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment. Archived from the original on 15 December 2014. Retrieved 24 March 2015.