{"id":49849,"date":"2022-11-01T09:43:05","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T00:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/01\/new-zealand-authorities-apologise-for-encouraging-parents-to-tax-halloween-sweets"},"modified":"2022-11-01T09:43:05","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T00:43:05","slug":"new-zealand-authorities-apologise-for-encouraging-parents-to-tax-halloween-sweets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=49849","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand authorities apologise for encouraging parents to \u2018tax\u2019 Halloween sweets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inland Revenue Department faced criticism online after tweeting a tax on \u2018treat hauls\u2019 could teach kids responsibility<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s tax department has apologised for encouraging parents to hit their children\u2019s Halloween candy stash with a \u201clolly tax\u201d of up to 33%.<\/p>\n<p>The Inland Revenue Department [IRD] came under fire on Sunday after tweeting from its official account that \u201cparenting trends like a lolly tax teach kids responsibility by taking some of their lollies and taxing their trick or treat haul.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/01\/new-zealand-authorities-apologise-for-encouraging-parents-to-tax-halloween-sweets\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inland Revenue Department faced criticism online after tweeting a tax on \u2018treat hauls\u2019 could teach kids responsibilityNew Zealand\u2019s tax department has apologised for encouraging parents to hit their children\u2019s Halloween candy stash with a \u201clolly tax\u201d o&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2034,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49850,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49849\/revisions\/49850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}