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Shane Jones Throws More Taxpayer Money At Mussel Farm Dumpster Fire
Thursday, 28 November 2024, 5:53 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
“Shane Jones has continued to lobby for tens of millions of dollars from the pocket of taxpayers to be handed to a management team who have already managed one mussel business into failure.” More >>
‘$254k Blunder’ Dunedin Chief Executive Must Go For Costly Behaviour
Thursday, 28 November 2024, 5:50 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
“Two issues are concerning – Graham’s extremely costly behaviour, and the utter lack of transparency surrounding the report into her, which alone cost more than $132,500” said Local Government Campaigns Manager, Sam Warren. More >>
Taxpayer Gamble On SolarZero Could Cost Country Nearly $60 Per Household
Thursday, 28 November 2024, 3:16 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
“When the government tries to gamble with taxpayers’ money, private companies line their pockets and taxpayers get the risk. Government picking winners doesn’t work.” More >>
Desperate Need For Growth After OCR Slash
Wednesday, 27 November 2024, 2:19 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Slashing interest rates is half a solution at best, and sticking plasters won’t put New Zealand back on the right course. More >>
Peters Right To Call For More Foreign Investment
Wednesday, 27 November 2024, 11:07 am | Taxpayers' Union
Cut anti-competitive red tape, lift the ban on foreign companies owning the plots of land their businesses are based on, and drop one of the highest corporate tax rates in the world. That’s how you attract investment, Taxpayers’ Union Policy ... More >>
Wellington City Council Fails Again
Wednesday, 27 November 2024, 10:40 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
“The Golden Mile isn’t just a “nice-to-have”, it’s a project that local businesses actively don’t want. In a time of financial crisis, the Mayor’s wasting $1,750 for every household in the city to kill the CBD” More >>
Taxpayers' Union Pays Tribute To Nikki Kaye
Tuesday, 26 November 2024, 1:11 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
“A warm, generous, and aspirational person, it’s no wonder Nikki Kaye was so respected both by her constituents and beyond." More >>
REVEALED: TVNZ’s 60K Seasonal Soirées
Monday, 25 November 2024, 6:00 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
In a year that has included programme failures and falling revenue, their current trajectory is only damaging public trust even further. More >>
Govt Needs To Put Taxpayers First After $500 Billion COP Deal
Monday, 25 November 2024, 11:52 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Taxpayers’ Union Communications Officer Alex Emes called the deal “a move towards global socialism” due to the agreed upon large transfer of wealth from countries like New Zealand to the third world. More >>
Taxpayers Union Supports Wairarapa Residents’ Battle For Rates Cap
Thursday, 21 November 2024, 9:39 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Rates across the Anglosphere - whether it is California, England, Victoria or New South Wales - are capped to avoid spiralling rates bills. The fact New Zealand has failed to cap rates is just another example of how successive Governments have fallen ... More >>
NEW POLL: Kiwis Overwhelmingly Support MPs' Expenses Transparency Law Change
Thursday, 21 November 2024, 9:36 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
62% of respondents support the extension of the OIA to cover MPs’ spending, compared to just 13% opposed and 24% were unsure. More >>
COP29 Ends In Promise To Send More Taxpayer Money Overseas
Wednesday, 20 November 2024, 1:32 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
This decision proves how out-of-touch this tax more, spend more, ship more overseas Government is with New Zealand taxpayers. Fix your house first before you go fixing the neighbourhood. More >>
Who Carries The Can For Bailing-out Flooded Napier Homes?
Wednesday, 20 November 2024, 1:03 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Flood defences should be factored into the private cost of a development, if that’s what potential homeowners want to pay for. Denying homebuyers that choice in the long run only ends up denying people the ability to buy homes at all. More >>
Taxpayer-funded Hīkoi Organiser Shows Parliament’s Budget A Political Slush Fund
Wednesday, 20 November 2024, 11:04 am | Taxpayers' Union
Taxpayers’ Union Policy and Public Affairs Manager, James Ross, said “Taxpayers’ money is not a political slush fund. MPs shouldn’t be able to hide how they’re wasting our money, and it’s long-past time their budgets were covered by the OIA.” More >>
If You Want To Use It, You Should Pay It
Tuesday, 19 November 2024, 9:25 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
With 83 percent of DOC’s current budget coming from the taxpayer tab, the department is correct in looking for ways to only charge those using its services. More >>
MFAT Decision To Ship $4 Million To Vanuatu Out-Of-Touch
Monday, 18 November 2024, 11:09 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The comments made by NZ’s delegation to COP 29, Mr. Croad discussing additional ‘pathways’ to forfeit more NZ tax dollars to Vanuatu are both out-of-touch & disrespectful to hardworking taxpayers, says Union Communications Officer, Alex Emes. More >>
Dunedin Council Needs To Stop The Railway Gravy Train
Friday, 15 November 2024, 11:51 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
“Dunedin ratepayers have been smacked with a 17.5% rates hike just this year alone. Ratepayers can’t afford to keep coughing up freight-loads of cash for council vanity projects." More >>
Gross Incompetence Exposed Again Over Thorndon Quay
Thursday, 14 November 2024, 4:38 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
“We could see this planning failure coming, half of Wellington saw this coming, so how didn’t the Council? Do Council staff not talk to each other?” said James Ross, Policy and Public Affairs Manager at the Taxpayers’ Union. More >>
Fair Digital News Bargaining Bill Needs To Meet Its Long-awaited End
Wednesday, 13 November 2024, 10:31 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
“A pause is good, but this Bill needs to be scrapped. National knew before the election bailing out untrusted media firms wouldn’t work, now that needs to be put into practice.” More >>
Christchurch And Wellington Show Auckland How To Buy A Tree
Tuesday, 12 November 2024, 4:05 pm | Taxpayers' Union
Purchased by Christchurch in 2023 for $43,990 and transported for $11,880 – the central city tree shows that bigger doesn’t always mean better. With an installation and take-down price of $8,000, the Super City is again being shown up. More >>
