Incoming Prime Minister Christopher Luxon isn't entirely ruling out new or increased taxes whilst he is Prime Minister.
In coalition talks, National lost one of its flagship policies with the foreign buyers scheme getting thrown.
Christopher Luxon is still promising tax cuts for New Zealanders that he says will be rolled out in 2024 but currently how that will be achieved is still unclear.
Throughout the election campaign, National came under fire for its tax cut plan with questions about how it would be funded.
National had planned on using money generated from the foreign buyers scheme to help fund the tax cuts but now that is off the table, questions are continuing to grow.
Luxon appeared on AM on Monday morning and was grilled about taxes.
AM co-host Ryan Bridge asked if Luxon would promise there wouldn't be an increase to current taxes or any new ones while he is Prime Minister.
"All three of us are parties of lower taxes, we want New Zealanders who work hard to keep their own money in their own pocket," Luxon replied.
"That is why we have committed to delivering the tax relief in the amounts we promised before the election and we look forward to rolling it out to lower and middle New Zealanders."
But that answer led to more questions from Bridge after Luxon refused to answer the question.
Bridge asked again whether Luxon would promise not to introduce or increase taxes while he's in the top job, but the National leader refused to explicitly commit to it.
"What we are trying to do on an income tax sense is to make sure we can lower taxes over time but that is contingent on our economy and doing that in a prudent and responsible way," he said. "We are intuitively, instinctively parties that believe in lower tax."
Even though Luxon says National is a party of lower taxes, in 2010, National, led by Sir Joh Key, National lifted GST.
But while he refused to rule other tax increases out, Luxon did promise not to increase GST.
"What we can commit to is lowering income tax, I can tell you there won't be an increase to GST but there might be things like excise tax that go up with respect to cigarettes and other things but what I would say to you is we are parties of low taxes."
But when asked if all taxes except GST were on the table for increasing while he is Prime Minister, Luxon disagreed.
"No, that is not what I said," he replied. "What I said to you is we are parties of low taxes. Rest assured we are the group you'd have to worry about the least around tax increases."
Watch the full interview above.
