Major Tax Reform

Get rid of GST first.

I don't see how doing this would encourage innovation. We need to think 'beyond' tax to achieve what I assume you are trying to achieve here.

But before we do that, we have to recognise there are some things that just are, and there are oh so many variables, it just can't be as simple as what you write.

Such as skilled or motivated workers will generally get more pay.
Lower income bracket will contain a high portion of low motivated people
Taxing the higher income bracket too much will make them leave and go overseas and that will likely reduce jobs for everyone as it will stifle innovation or open up for big corporations - if they could even be bothered trying with high tax.
High tax will probably make corporatoins find ways to avoid it more so that less of it ends up in NZ

Some of these are contentious I know. There are too many variables - I think there would be better ideas such as mandating sponsorship / apprenticeship of workers or unskilled per percentage of profit or similar.

Why would you punish people for making more money, this is why the wealthy leave nz.

Remove gst on kiwi made products but increase imported.

I'd cap it at 28%. I don't make a lot of money but I do agree with Ahmad, we shouldn't punish people for making more money.

This "punishing innovation" argument is not valid as there still making more then the rest and the incentives are still there.

Taxation doesn't pay for anything. It merely removes government money from the system.

Sorry this just doesn't make sense to me.

The NZ government is the sole issuer of NZ$.

The government spends NZ$ into existence and it destroys them by taxing them out of existence.

The government can not have NZ$ or not have NZ$. It creates them by marking up numbers in bank accounts in the private sector.

Let's give an example of innovation still current with this reform. Mark earns 50k per year hes taxed 20% ending up with 40k. Tom earns 140k per year hes taxed 40% ending up with 84k. That's double the money. It's not punishing the rich its closing the gap. At current its the poor being punished. Why should someone earning 45k pay same % as someone earning 200k..