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PM must release ministers’ conflicts
Thursday, 6 December 2018, 9:24 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT Leader David Seymour is calling on the Prime Minister to release details of her ministers' conflicts of interest. More >>
New investment fund is ‘greenwashing’
Wednesday, 5 December 2018, 1:19 pm | ACT New Zealand
The so-called New Zealand Green Investment Finance Fund is just a different shade of corporate welfare, according to ACT Leader David Seymour. More >>
UN treaty’s chilling implications for speech and media
Wednesday, 5 December 2018, 10:43 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT’s Human Rights Spokesman Stephen Berry says the UN Global Compact for Migration will have a chilling effect on freedom of expression and the freedom of the press. More >>
Secrecy continues over Westland loan
Tuesday, 4 December 2018, 3:02 pm | ACT New Zealand
The Regional Economic Development Minister has continued to stonewall over a $9.9 million loan to Westland Milk Products, according to ACT Leader David Seymour. More >>
Out of touch Peters should discover Hallensteins
Tuesday, 4 December 2018, 10:42 am | ACT New Zealand
Winston Peters’ comments that the menswear industry is ‘fleecing’ customers shows how out of touch he really is, says ACT Leader David Seymour. More >>
Free Press, 3 December 2018 – Taxing Times
Tuesday, 4 December 2018, 8:44 am | ACT New Zealand
National has promised no new taxes in its first term and to repeal the Auckland regional fuel tax and any capital gains tax. While this should be welcomed, we’ve been here before. New Zealanders were promised no new taxes by Steven Joyce during the 2014 ... More >>
Market studies are business bashing
Monday, 3 December 2018, 4:40 pm | ACT New Zealand
True to form as a Labour Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern is whipping the oil companies simply because they are private companies, says ACT Leader David Seymour. More >>
Latest poll will prompt electoral law change
Sunday, 2 December 2018, 7:04 pm | ACT New Zealand
The latest 1 News Colmar Brunton poll will have a desperate Government thinking about screwing the scrum in the coming months, says ACT Leader David Seymour. More >>
Jones must release Westland loan details
Sunday, 2 December 2018, 4:56 pm | ACT New Zealand
Jones must release Westland loan details Shane Jones should immediately divulge the details of a government loan to private company Westland Milk Products, says ACT Leader David Seymour. More >>
PM backs rogue Minister
Friday, 30 November 2018, 2:58 pm | ACT New Zealand
The Prime Minister appears either unwilling or unable to tell Shane Jones to pull his head in on the issue of agricultural subsidies, says ACT Leader David Seymour. More >>
Speech: ACT - The World’s First Woolbeing Budget
Thursday, 29 November 2018, 8:44 pm | ACT New Zealand
Speech: The World’s First Woolbeing Budget – Forget Modelling our Wellbeing, Just Run Government Properly More >>
Gas price drop means market study wastes $3m
Thursday, 29 November 2018, 4:18 pm | ACT New Zealand
The recent fall in petrol prices means the Government’s heavy-handed investigation into fuel companies will waste $1.5m of taxpayer money and will place similar compliance costs on the companies themselves, says ACT Leader David Seymour. More >>
PGF now providing banking services to struggling firms
Thursday, 29 November 2018, 1:46 pm | ACT New Zealand
PGF now providing banking services to struggling firms The Provincial Growth Fund’s move to hand out loans to struggling New Zealand firms should scare the daylights out of taxpayers, says ACT Leader David Seymour. More >>
Shane Jones thumbs nose at WTO
Tuesday, 27 November 2018, 4:31 pm | ACT New Zealand
Regional Economic Development Minister Shane Jones today confirmed that some Provincial Growth Fund expenditure may qualify as agricultural subsidies, meaning it would need to be reported to the World Trade Organisation, says ACT Leader David Seymour. More >>
Free Press, 26 November 2018 – Unintended Consequences
Tuesday, 27 November 2018, 9:20 am | ACT New Zealand
It’s a truism to say that government action often produces perverse side-effects. But why does this occur? One source of unintended consequences, according to economist Robert K. Merton, is the “imperious immediacy of interest”. That is, politicians ... More >>
Good intentions won’t solve child neglect
Tuesday, 27 November 2018, 9:05 am | ACT New Zealand
The Prime Minister’s Child Poverty Reduction Bill – set to pass into law this week with the support of every party except ACT – will do nothing to solve child neglect, says ACT Leader David Seymour. More >>
ACT will hold Nats to ‘no new taxes’
Monday, 26 November 2018, 1:15 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Leader David Seymour has welcomed Simon Bridges’ commitment to introducing no new taxes in the first term of a National-led government and to repealing any capital gains tax. More >>
Vaping red tape protects tobacco revenue
Friday, 23 November 2018, 3:20 pm | ACT New Zealand
Regulating vaping in the same way as tobacco will kill off new innovations, meaning less incentive for people to quit cigarettes, but more revenue for the government, says ACT Leader David Seymour. More >>
How many jobs will a capital gains tax destroy?
Friday, 23 November 2018, 9:34 am | ACT New Zealand
A valuation day approach to measuring capital gains will ensure that thousands fewer jobs are created, says ACT Leader David Seymour. More >>
Provincial Growth Fund: $120,000 a job
Tuesday, 20 November 2018, 10:08 am | ACT New Zealand
Each job being created through the Government’s Provincial Growth Fund comes with an eye-watering price tag of more than $120,000, says ACT Leader David Seymour. More >>
