Additionally, Davidson expressed disappointment that restrictions to bigger tech companies such as Google and Meta were not addressed in relation to the Budget.
“The big tech platforms who take our local content and provide it online and pay nothing for that, received a $500 million cut in taxes that they should be paying for.”
This concern follows the scrapping of a proposed Digital Service Tax, which gave tax breaks to tech companies, a decision that left some worries to be an advertising threat to Kiwi media industries.
Goldsmith has previously emphasised to Metronews that this topic is a challenging area for the government to tackle.
“We’re being cautious in the way that we are stepping forward ... We’re particularly watching what the Australians are doing.”
But Davidson doesn’t agree with this methodology.
“The wait and see approach doesn’t work when you have a crisis on your hands ... There’s a lot that could and should be being done.”