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RNZ News
23-05-2025
- Business
- RNZ News
Budget 2025: Sole trader feels 'ripped off' by government's KiwiSaver cuts
Wellington-based personal trainer Carl Rein says the government's KiwiSaver decision would affect him long-term. Photo: Supplied The budget move to halve the government's KiwiSaver contributions has been described as a blow to sole traders. The government contribution would be cut from $521 to just over $260 - provided there was a minimum of $1042 saved over a year, and those earning more than $180,000 would now miss out altogether. The government said this is to make sure the scheme's costs to the taxpayer "remain sustainable". Wellington-based personal trainer Carl Rein believed it would affect him long-term. "I'm in my 30s, so I've got at least 30-plus years to go before I'm even going to be able to access it," Rein said. "So all of that accumulated interest that I would benefit from later on, and it would give me greater security later on in life, is now not going to be there." Rein said the move made it "disheartening" to be involved in KiwiSaver, and he felt "ripped off". He was also concerned it opened the door for government contributions to become zero. Rein's comments came alongside criticism of the policy from sole trader tax platform Hnry. Hnry chief executive James Fuller says the government's decision posed risks to the country's sole traders. Photo: Supplied Hnry chief executive James Fuller said the government's decision posed risks to the country's 400,000 sole traders. "The danger is that sole traders switch off from KiwiSaver entirely and then potentially look at more risky ways to try and prop up the income they would have got from their retirement savings that the government was contributing to," Fuller said. "So, it leaves a lot of questions for sole traders as to where they put their money now that they know that the government isn't backing them to contribute to KiwiSaver," he said. Fuller said KiwiSaver was the wrong place to be looking for savings.
BBC News
18-05-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Hampshire complete comfortable win over Bears
Rothesay County Championship Division One, Edgbaston (day three)Hampshire 300 & 203: Middleton 76; Webster 4-57, Bamber 4-60Warwickshire 194 & 220: Davies 66; Fuller 5-56Hampshire (21 pts) beat Warwickshire (3 pts) by 89 runsMatch scorecard Hampshire hit back from last week's thrashing by Nottinghamshire in emphatic style with an 89-run County Championship win over Warwickshire inside three days at a target of 310, Warwickshire were all out for 220, unpicked by seamers James Fuller (5-56) and Kyle Abbott (3-44 and 8-91 in the match). Alex Davies (66) and Ethan Bamber (43) offered some resistance but the rest were blown away by a Hampshire side resurgent after their surrender at Trent second innings had closed in the morning on 203. Beau Webster took 4-57 and Bamber 4-60 but the match was decided by the visitors outbowling their hosts on a pitch which offered encouragement to seamers Hampshire resumed on 159-6, already 275 ahead, Bamber quickly struck twice when Brad Wheal edged to second slip and Fuller's middle-stump was sent flying by an inside-edged slog. Abbott pulled Bamber for six in a handy run-a-ball stand of 32 with Toby Albert (43) before Webster had Albert and John Turner caught behind in three balls.A target of 310 offered an intriguing last chapter to an engrossing match and Warwickshire's chase began spectacularly. They were 10-2 after three overs after Abbott hit Rob Yates' off stump, Davies struck his first two balls for four and Tom Latham edged Abbott to wicketkeeper Ben by the rocky start, Davies and Sam Hain added 68 in 24 overs. Hain looked in excellent form on his way to 30 but his season's story so far of getting in then getting out continued when he offered no shot to an Abbott in-ducker and was reached a 66-ball half-century but was among the casualties as Fuller unleashed a ferocious spell from the Pavilion End, ripping out three for three in 12 balls. Webster and Davies were trapped in front by balls that kept low, either side of Ed Barnard tickling an outswinger to the 126-6, Warwickshire needed something special from their lower order on a pitch which had yielded just one half-century in each innings. It was understandably beyond them. Zen Malik hoisted Turner to fine leg. Bamber and Che Simmons fought hard to add 43 in 17 overs before Fuller returned to complete his five-for by removing edged behind, Simmons lofted to long leg and when Turner flattened Olly Hannon-Dalby's off-stump, Hampshire's reassertion of their qualities was Reporters' Network supported by Rothesay.
BBC News
16-05-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Fuller guides Hampshire to 300 at Warwickshire
Rothesay County Championship Division One, Edgbaston (day one)Hampshire 300: Fuller 52*, Stoneman 48, Dawson 46; Barnard 4-56, Hannon-Dalby 3-47Warwickshire 27-2: Davies 16; Abbott 1-13, Wheal 1-13Warwickshire (3 pts) trail Hampshire (2 pts) by 273 runsMatch scorecard Lower-order resistance led by James Fuller lifted Hampshire to 300 all out after their batting fragility had surfaced again on the opening day of their County Championship game against Warwickshire at out twice for under 200 in last week's 366-run defeat by Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge, Hampshire this time dipped to 130-5 and 223-8 before Fuller's bullish unbeaten half-century (52 not out from 52 balls) marshalled the addition of 77 for the last two Barnard took 4-56 and Olly Hannon-Dalby 3-47 for a Warwickshire team full of confidence after their strong start to the season. They then wobbled themselves, however, as they lost both openers before closing the first day on 27-2 in reply. Hampshire elected to bat but lost Fletcha Middleton in the fourth over of the day when he edged Hannon-Dalby to second slip and Rob Yates took his 147th catch for Stoneman and Nick Gubbins gritted out 62 from 24 overs but, with the lunch interval beckoning, that fragility kicked in. Gubbins edged an outswinger from Beau Webster to wicketkeeper Alex Davies and Tom Prest nicked a firm-footed jab at struck the biggest blow with the 32nd ball after lunch when the obdurate Stoneman (48) gave Davies his third catch. Ben Brown followed the pattern of batters getting in then getting out he when dug in for 29 from 56 balls but then dragged a drive at Webster on to his 130-5, Hampshire were in jeopardy of coming in under 200 again, on a good batting pitch, but Liam Dawson and Toby Albert applied themselves to add 68 in 19 overs. Both then perished in the space of 10 balls. Dawson edged Barnard high to second slip for 46 and Albert flicked Tazeem Ali to mid-wicket to give Yates his 148th and 149th catches for the left the sun-soaked crowd on tenterhooks to see if Yates would get the opportunity to take his 150th catch for Warwickshire. They didn't have to wait long before Kyle Abbott drove mightily at Barnard but sliced to second slip where Yates triumphantly seized the ball above his was 223-8 and Hampshire appeared well under par but the tail wagged. Former Warwickshire loanee Brad Wheal counter-attacked for a 28-ball 24 before falling lbw, struck on the back pad, to the impressive Barnard. John Turner, recalled to the side in place of Sonny Baker, helped Fuller add 34 before edging Hannon-Dalby were left with eight overs to bat during which Hampshire hit back hard. Yates' day took a downward twist when he was trapped lbw by Abbott and, with 16 balls left in the day, Davies top-edged an inexplicable heave at Wheal and Middleton took an excellent catch running in from deep backward point. ECB Reporters' Network supported by Rothesay
