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Pinot Nah: Taxpayer Handouts For Wine Industry Must Stop
Friday, 26 July 2024, 1:44 pm | Taxpayers' Union
The Government is loading the risk of this experiment onto taxpayers while allowing private businesses to reap any benefits. If winemakers and viticulturists aren’t willing to stump up their own money to fund this experiment, why should taxpayers? More >>
Bureaucratic Incompetence As Hastings Council Sells $1m Building For $150k
Wednesday, 24 July 2024, 12:24 pm | Taxpayers' Union
This appears to be yet another case of a council not doing its due diligence before forking out ratepayer money to pay for the latest boondoggle: Connor Molloy, Taxpayers’ Union Campaigns Manager More >>
Ferry-Tale Reporting Of Poll Misrepresents True Cost Of iReX
Wednesday, 24 July 2024, 12:01 pm | Taxpayers' Union
The Taxpayers’ Union is slamming the reporting of a Talbot Mills poll claiming that there is more opposition than support for the government’s decision to cancel the iReX ferry project. More >>
Taxpayers And Ratepayers Must Stop Funding ‘Rebel Business School’ Rort
Wednesday, 24 July 2024, 11:12 am | Taxpayers' Union
The Taxpayers’ Union is calling on councils and government agencies to cease funding of Rebel Business School after it was revealed using offical information laws that almost $2 million of taxpayer and ratepayer money has been spent on the scheme. More >>
Taxpayers’ Union Welcomes Return Of Democracy To Tauranga
Tuesday, 23 July 2024, 1:18 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The new Council must work hard to build the trust of the city, treating every ratepayer dollar as if they had earned it themselves. More >>
Health NZ Board Sacking Highlights Failure Of Centralisation-at-any-cost Agenda
Monday, 22 July 2024, 6:50 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
It is clear the board has failed to perform, but ultimately the responsibility must sit with the Government who decided it was a good idea to restructure in the middle of a pandemic. More >>
Taxpayers’ Union Opposes Plain Packaging Laws For Infant Formula
Monday, 22 July 2024, 12:30 pm | Taxpayers' Union
Taxpayers’ Union Campaigns Manager, Connor Molloy, said that there were already laws prohibiting making false claims on packaging and that more red tape would simply make it harder to do business in New Zealand for very little public benefit. More >>
Additional Savings Must Not Wait Until Budget 2025
Thursday, 18 July 2024, 12:48 pm | Taxpayers' Union
Waiting until next year’s budget simply forces the taxpayer to stump up for billions of dollars in wasteful spending on projects that are already destined to be wound up. More >>
Government Must Cut Waste To Tame Inflation Beast
Wednesday, 17 July 2024, 11:07 am | Taxpayers' Union
“For the 37th month in a row Adrian Orr and the Reserve Bank have failed to keep inflation within the target band, punishing New Zealanders and driving up the cost of living." More >>
Wellington Land Rates Review Should Focus On Bringing Rates Down
Tuesday, 16 July 2024, 10:12 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
“Rather than trying to chuck $32 million at its multinational owners of the Reading Cinema to get them to do something with a massive CBD plot, land value-based rates would encourage development. But Wellington’s rates problems run much deeper than ... More >>
PM Luxon Needs To Talk Tax With Estonian Prime Minister
Monday, 15 July 2024, 3:26 pm | Taxpayers' Union
World Bank statistics reveal that between 1995 and 2020, Estonia’s economic growth was 160.59%. Over the same period, New Zealand’s economic growth was significantly less at 95.85%. More >>
Taxpayers’ Union Releases 2024 Rates Dashboard
Monday, 15 July 2024, 11:24 am | Taxpayers' Union
The Taxpayers’ Union is today launching the 2024 Rates Dashboard, allowing ratepayers to track and compare how much their council is planning to hike rates again this year. More >>
New Poll: Gains For National And NZ First While Labour Drops
Friday, 12 July 2024, 10:11 am | Taxpayers' Union
The latest Taxpayers’ Union – Curia poll for July shows National up 2.2 points on last month to 37.6% while Labour drops 3.5 points to 25.9%. More >>
New Poll: New Zealanders Support Sale Of Interislander
Thursday, 11 July 2024, 1:00 pm | Taxpayers' Union
Selling the Interislander would ensure that the service runs efficiently and reliably with a private owner having strong incentives to keep up with regular maintenance and renewals. More >>
Interest Rates Freeze Shows Need To Take An Axe To Government Waste
Wednesday, 10 July 2024, 2:21 pm | Taxpayers' Union
The Government needs to get serious about slashing wasteful spending, but so far it’s done anything but. More spending, a bigger deficit and heaps more debt were the name of the game in May’s Budget. More >>
Government Finally Getting It On Emissions Reduction
Tuesday, 9 July 2024, 5:54 pm | Taxpayers' Union
The Taxpayers’ Union is welcoming the Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage (CCUS) framework released for consultation today that will reduce the cost of emissions reduction in New Zealand. More >>
Children’s Commission, Ease Up On The Re-branding
Tuesday, 9 July 2024, 5:51 pm | Taxpayers' Union
The Taxpayers’ Union can reveal that the Children’s and Young People Commission has spent $61,474 on refreshing their brand identity when the structure moved from a Commissioner to a Commission with a board. More >>
EV Charger Campaigners Are Missing The Point
Tuesday, 9 July 2024, 12:17 pm | Taxpayers' Union
The Taxpayers’ Union is dismissing concerns from EV lobbyists that there aren’t enough EV chargers in New Zealand, arguing that they are not necessary for emissions reduction but will be built anyway with private funding so long as the Government keeps its grubby fingers away. More >>
Protecting Uber Freedom To Contract A Win/win For Both Passengers And Drivers
Tuesday, 9 July 2024, 10:07 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The Taxpayers’ Union is welcoming the Government’s review into how workers in the gig economy are treated and backs calls to protect the freedom of contract and allow Uber drivers to remain as contractors. More >>
Government Continuing Corporate Welfare Slush Fund
Tuesday, 9 July 2024, 9:39 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The Taxpayers’ Union is slamming the Government’s decision to continue MBIE’s Endeavour Fund without narrowing the funding criteria to exclude areas where there is clear private benefit and incentive to invest in research and development. More >>
