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Water tax may add $28/week to weekly grocery bill
Thursday, 10 August 2017, 11:31 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Labour can’t credibly go into an election without being upfront to New Zealanders as to how much its proposed tax on water will be, says the Taxpayers Union. More >>
Statement on Metiria Turei resignation
Thursday, 10 August 2017, 8:46 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
“While it is always sad to see a senior politician fall from grace, Ms Turei’s resignation does not avail her from the debt owed to New Zealand taxpayers. With more and more evidence coming out that Ms Turei should not have even been on the ... More >>
Green Party Illegally Using Taxpayer Money to Campaign
Wednesday, 9 August 2017, 3:45 pm | Taxpayers' Union
9 AUGUST 2017 - The Taxpayers’ Union has laid a complaint against two Green Party Parliamentary (taxpayer funded) staff for using election advertisements funded by Parliamentary Services to campaign - and continuing to do so when the illegality ... More >>
'Water Tax' Shouldn't Pick And Choose
Wednesday, 9 August 2017, 12:03 pm | Taxpayers' Union
9 AUGUST 2017 - "Picking and choosing who pays what ‘water tax’ and changing the tax rate based on its use, is economic silliness,” says Jordan Williams, Executive Director of the Taxpayers’ Union More >>
Secrecy of Wevers' report under fire
Wednesday, 9 August 2017, 11:11 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The Taxpayers' Union is welcoming renewed calls in the last 24-hours, by Sir Geoffrey Palmer and Sue Maroney, for the Speaker to publicly release the Sir Maarten Wevers' report which lead to the resignation of the Auditor General and says that it puts ... More >>
Opportunities Party Included in Bribe-O-Meter
Tuesday, 8 August 2017, 2:40 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
After analysis of The Opportunities Party (TOP) policies, including discussion and clarification with party officials, the Taxpayers’ Union has calculated TOP’s manifesto announced to date would cost an additional $10.4 billion over the next ... More >>
Steve Chadwick’s muddy U-turn more than welcome!
Monday, 7 August 2017, 4:52 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
“Well done to Rotorua Lakes Council for its U-turn on the Mayor’s decision to spend $90,000 of combined ratepayer and taxpayer money importing South Korean mud for the City’s ‘Mudtopia’ festival”, says Jordan Williams, Executive Director ... More >>
Labour proposes to tax Aucklanders more
Sunday, 6 August 2017, 2:09 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Treasury swimming in money, but Labour proposes to tax Aucklanders more at the pump 6 AUGUST 2017 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Responding to Labour’s transport announcement this afternoon, Jordan Williams, Executive Director of the Taxpayers’ Union says: More >>
Mr Speaker has a strange understanding of ‘unanimous’
Friday, 4 August 2017, 1:51 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The Speaker, David Carter, has a strange understanding of the word ‘unanimous agreement’, given two political parties, NZ First and United Future, have called for the public release of Sir Maarten Wevers’ report, which led to Martin Matthews resigning as ... More >>
How does Winston keep a straight face?
Friday, 4 August 2017, 1:31 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The gall of Winston Peters calling National “big spending” in relation to its promise to spend $2.6 billion on Auckland Transport, is a bit rich from the man who’s blown out the Taxpayers’ Union “Bribe-O-Meter”, despite many of New Zealand ... More >>
Time to call BS on Metiria Turei’s claim of starvation
Friday, 4 August 2017, 10:15 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
“It’s time to call Metiria Turei’s fraud on voters for what it is: naked political hoodwinking at the expense of the truth and taxpayers,” says Jordan Williams, the Taxpayers’ Union Executive Director. “When this story first broke, there were ... More >>
Speaker party to cover-up, brings Office into disrepute
Friday, 4 August 2017, 10:10 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The Speaker’s refusals to deny that a ‘secret deal’ between him and the disgraced former Auditor General, Martin Matthews, not to publicly release Sir Maarten Wevers report, is an astonishing cover-up and an abuse of the Office of the Speaker, says ... More >>
BEPS Decisions Welcome, But Ignore Real Tax Evaders
Thursday, 3 August 2017, 12:14 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
3 AUGUST 2017 - The Taxpayers’ Union is welcoming the Government’s base erosion and profit shifting (BEPS) decisions announced today , however says they ignore the real anomaly in the law allowing commercial companies to evade paying tax, because ... More >>
Smoking report backed by failed taxpayer-funded lobby group
Wednesday, 2 August 2017, 5:34 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Not only does today’s release of ASPIRE 2025’s report into the progress of Smokefree 2025 do nothing to support harm-reduction, or support emerging products like e-cigarettes, the report is also funded by QUIT Group, who last year were criticised for wrongfully ... More >>
Bribe-O-Meter Update - NZ First spending in excess of $22.5b
Tuesday, 1 August 2017, 7:43 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Bribe-O-Meter Update Minor parties added, NZ First spending in excess of $22.5b 1 AUGUST 2017 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE All parties currently in Parliament have now been added to the Taxpayers’ Union " Bribe-O-Meter" — New Zealand's most ... More >>
Inequality not growing so now it’s 'entrenched'
Monday, 31 July 2017, 5:33 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Closing the Gap , a neo-socialist lobby group, have today called for “a steeply progressive tax regime targeting high earners” to address their misplaced concerns about income inequality. More >>
Rotorua Lakes Council accepts Supreme Achievement Award
Monday, 31 July 2017, 2:36 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Rotorua Lakes Council accepts Supreme Achievement Award for importing mud from South Korea 31 JULY 2017 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE More >>
Taxpayer-funded mud slinging?
Thursday, 27 July 2017, 1:44 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
27 JULY 2017 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Taxpayers’ Union is astounded at MBIE’s decision to provide $1.5 million of funding to the Mudtopia Festival, to be held in Rotorua in December. It was revealed today that $90,000 of the fund has been spent ... More >>
WINZ Needs to Get Off The Couch and Go See Fraudster MP
Wednesday, 26 July 2017, 12:29 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
26 JULY 2017 - Taxpayers want to know why WINZ hasn't sat down with Metiria Turei yet and worked out how much she owes the taxpayer or pressed charges? More >>
LGNZ Set to Use Ratepayer Money to Lobby for "Cat Tax"
Wednesday, 26 July 2017, 10:46 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
LGNZ set to use ratepayer money to lobby for "cat tax" ratepayers don't want More >>
