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Handouts for electric vehicles = corporate welfare
Wednesday, 17 January 2018, 12:01 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
17 JANUARY 2018 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Taxpayers’ Union is slamming today’s announcement of $3.7 million in taxpayer dollars being given to private businesses to buy electric vehicles. Taxpayers’ Union Executive Director Jordan Williams says, ... More >>
Hands off motorists’ piggy bank, Phil
Tuesday, 16 January 2018, 11:52 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The Government must keep its hands off motorists’ piggy bank, says the Taxpayers’ Union after the Transport Minister reportedly told stakeholders he’s considering using New Zealand’s roading fund for non-roading projects. Taxpayers’ Union Executive ... More >>
International report says Kiwi voters lack electoral freedom
Monday, 15 January 2018, 12:22 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
New Zealand’s mediocre ranking in a new index of electoral freedoms is embarrassing and shows the need for electoral reform, says constitutional lawyer and electoral reform campaigner Jordan Williams, who is now the Executive Director of the Taxpayers’ ... More >>
New Year’s tobacco tax hike means pain
Sunday, 31 December 2017, 11:27 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
A new report by the Taxpayers’ Union shows the ineffectiveness of tobacco tax hikes as a tool to reduce smoking rates, and reveals the unintended consequences of the policy: direct financial harm to smokers and their families, and crime towards ... More >>
Waipa District Council clings to inefficient water services
Thursday, 21 December 2017, 3:14 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Taxpayers’ Union Executive Director Jordan Williams is denouncing Waipa District Council’s refusal to pool water management services with neighbouring Hamilton City. More >>
Manurewa West School’s Silence on Spending Disgraceful
Thursday, 21 December 2017, 10:37 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
A Manurewa school’s refusal to front media over its funding of the principal’s home expenses, a ‘stress-relief’ weekend and more is a disgrace to parents and taxpayers, says the Taxpayers’ Union. “It’s disgraceful that the chairperson, ... More >>
Problems at Waikato DHB seemingly unlimited
Wednesday, 20 December 2017, 3:58 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
A new inquiry by the Deputy Auditor-General into Waikato DHB’s procurement of IT services from California-based company HealthTap suggests the time has come for the Minister of Health to sack the board at Waikato DHB and appoint commissioners, says ... More >>
Business Tax Rate Killing Investment, Productivity And Wages
Wednesday, 20 December 2017, 11:44 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
New Zealand's corporate tax rate is now one of the highest in the world with the expected passing of a massive reduction in business taxes in the United States, says the New Zealand Taxpayers' Union. It is calling on the Government to put corporate ... More >>
Auditor General report highlights wasteful spending
Tuesday, 19 December 2017, 12:34 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Heads should roll over an Auditor General report slamming school spending decisions around the country, says the New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union. More >>
Costing advice should be available pre- not post-election
Friday, 15 December 2017, 4:02 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Independent policy costings should be made available to political parties prior to elections, and not limited to when negotiations occur to form a Government, says the Taxpayers’ Union. Today’s release of advice and correspondence between political ... More >>
Barrie Saunders new Chair of Taxpayers' Union
Friday, 15 December 2017, 10:56 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Barrie Saunders has been welcomed as the new Chairman of the Taxpayers' Union, replacing the organisation's founding Chairman, John Bishop, who has stepped down after four years in the role. More >>
Tax working group should be tasked with fiscal neutrality
Thursday, 14 December 2017, 1:40 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
With the Budget Policy Statement indicating fiscal restraint, and the Government not signalling increases in revenue over and above nominal growth and fiscal drag, the Tax Working Group should be tasked to offer fiscally neutral solutions says the ... More >>
Winter Energy Payment is universalism at its worst
Thursday, 14 December 2017, 1:34 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Responding to the Government’s plan to give everyone over the age of 65 hundreds of dollars to pay for heating over Winter is an expensive mistake, says the New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union. The Union’s Executive Director, Jordan Williams, said, “A ... More >>
Labour’s mini-budget delivers fiscal restraint
Thursday, 14 December 2017, 1:33 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
“Grant Robertson’s pre-Christmas spend-up appears to tie his hand in years to come, and offers a welcome dose of fiscal restraint,” says the Taxpayers’ Union Executive Director, Jordan Williams, reacting to today’s Half Year Economic and ... More >>
KiwiBuild spending mostly crowds out what would be built
Thursday, 14 December 2017, 1:32 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
By the next election the Government will have spent two billion dollars on KiwiBuild, but only a little more than a third of that will have translated into additional houses according to Treasury analysis pointed to by the Taxpayers’ Union. More >>
Hipkins correct to target bureaucrat pay
Wednesday, 13 December 2017, 3:40 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The Taxpayers’ Union welcomes the Minister of State Services’ new focus on restraining the wage growth of top bureaucrats. More >>
Abandoning PPPs will hit taxpayers for the sake of ideology
Wednesday, 13 December 2017, 12:21 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Labour’s plan to abandon public-private partnerships is an expensive display of ideology, says the Taxpayers’ Union . “It’s nuts to put hospitals and schools in charge of building projects when you have private developers are queueing up to ... More >>
Costs flying further than the fox
Tuesday, 12 December 2017, 12:37 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
It would be incredible if Christchurch City Council spent $1000 removing a flying fox, but spending $26,600 at Muka Park to remove a flying fox because of noise complaints displays an impressive approach to wasteful spending, says the New Zealand Taxpayers’ ... More >>
Government name calling doesn’t help vulnerable kids
Monday, 11 December 2017, 5:34 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
MEDIA RELEASE Government name calling doesn’t help vulnerable kids 11 DECEMBER 2017 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE More >>
Tax indexation just as important as welfare increases
Monday, 11 December 2017, 1:00 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Judge Andrew Becroft's comments on TVNZ's Q&A that child welfare payments should be indexed to inflation apply just as much to tax thresholds says the Taxpayers’ Union. More >>
