2015 New Zealand budget

The New Zealand budget for fiscal year 2015/16 was presented to the New Zealand House of Representatives by Finance Minister Bill English on 21 May 2015. It was the seventh budget English presented as Minister of Finance.

2015 (2015) New Zealand budget
Submitted byBill English
Presented21 May 2015
ParliamentParliament of New Zealand
PartyNational
Total revenue $71b
Total expenditures $70.5b
Surplus $414m
Debt $60.6b net debt
25.1% net debt to GDP
Websitewww.treasury.govt.nz/budget/2015
ǂNumbers in italics are projections.
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2016 

In response to the budget, Leader of the Opposition Andrew Little called it a "fiddle-it-round budget, a fudge-it budget", while New Zealand First leader Winston Peters called it a "Split Enz budget – I see red, I see red, I see red".

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