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Writer and sociopolitical commentator Tze Ming Mok compared elements of ACT's immigration policy to the discriminatory poll tax the government issued an official apology for in 2002. New Zealand imposed a fixed-sum poll tax on Chinese immigrants from 1881 to restrict entry, which was eventually scrapped in 1944. "It's very interesting that a party that courted Chinese voters for so long with 'low tax' promises, now wants to reintroduce something close to the 19th-century poll tax levied on the Chinese," she said. "ACT knows very well that migrants already contribute more tax per capita than non-migrants because they are more likely to be of working age," she said. "It is a pretty obvious play for the NZ First vote, which just goes to show how expendable Chinese and Asian voters are to ACT, and how willing they are to throw us under the bus." https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/chinese/594302/inhuman-ethnic-leaders-slam-act-immigration-plan