If enacted in full, our Tax Reset plan projects $4 billion in additional annual revenue. Breakthrough Economy investments would be made using this funding. Alternatively, the Breakthrough Economy investment could also be made through new funding as part of a future budget - in collaboration with other political parties. This is realistic given that the entire Breakthrough Economy package cost could sit within one year’s annual operating allowance as set out in Budget 2026.

Predicting growth can be a challenge, but we estimate the Breakthrough Economy policy package could deliver up to 2% additional annual GDP growth after 10 years of implementation. Comparative small economies (like Singapore and Estonia) have sustained similarly high growth rates over multiple decades.

Expert advice from economists, Treasury and OECD supports high-impact, pro-growth reforms like these for New Zealand. Generally, their advice is to invest in the drivers of future growth and productivity — innovation, competition and people’s skills. For more information on how our Breakthrough Economy policy does this, see the policy document.

To support broad economic growth, our Breakthrough Economy policy also sits alongside our Abundant Energy policy to bring energy prices down, our Tax Reset policy to redirect capital from housing into the productive economy and our Affordable Housing policy to improve life and business in our urban spaces.

New Zealand's productivity performance has deteriorated for decades. Real wages have stagnated. Our brightest talent leaves for better opportunities overseas. Our businesses struggle to compete internationally beyond commodity exports.

We feel the cost of our stagnant productivity in the rising cost of living, and widening inequality. We feel it in the hollowing out of our public services, because taxation can’t keep up with the challenges of an ageing population or climate change.

Many New Zealanders are starting to feel that we need to make big reforms to reverse this slow decline. They’re right.

The kinds of industries that Opportunity wants to see emerge in New Zealand: high tech manufacturing, research and technology, high-productivity agriculture and AI are by their nature a lot less environmentally impactful than many of the industries that currently dominate our economy. In many cases they offer the possibility of solutions to help address our climate or environmental impacts.

Yes. We think the current state of competition in many business sectors warrants a shakeup, rather than continued tinkering like the current Commerce Act Amendment Bill before Parliament.

New Zealand’s competition regime lacks the ability to break up monopolies, impose industry-wide conduct obligations or address collusion. This has led directly to our near-unique market concentration and super-profits. Our proposal is modelled on provisions recently introduced in the EU and UK; both regarded as highly effective competition regimes.

Opportunity is open to the concept of structural separation of industries like banking, supermarkets and electricity generation. However structural separation is a blunt instrument that always imposes significant costs and market disruption. We think it should be done on the basis of expert analysis, and supervised by the courts. In some cases structural separation might be imposed, but more importantly, the threat of the Commerce Commission using it will improve market behaviour across the board.

Giving the Commerce Commission the power to fight the monopolies in the High Court means they can also go after the many other highly concentrated sectors that don’t receive much political or media attention, but do impose significant costs on New Zealand consumers.