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Parliamentary Service should be covered by OIA
Wednesday, 28 June 2017, 6:23 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The Taxpayers’ Union is calling on MPs to shed the cloak of secrecy surrounding Parliamentary Services and for political parties to commit to bring it under the Official Information Act in the next Parliamentary term. “Taxpayers should be able ... More >>
Govt. must not sabotage Team NZ with San Francisco welfare
Tuesday, 27 June 2017, 10:08 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The Taxpayers’ Union warmly congratulates Emirates Team New Zealand for their success today in Bermuda and says that the Government should resist the temptation to get on the bandwagon and throw money at the defence, before it is even clear money will ... More >>
Neoliberalism stopped the rise in inequality
Monday, 26 June 2017, 2:43 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
"The left-wing hullabaloo is wrong, inequality hasn't changed in 20 years", said Jordan Williams, Executive Director of the Taxpayers’ Union, responding to new research findings by the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research. More >>
Get a grip, sugar is not the 'new tobacco'
Sunday, 25 June 2017, 7:23 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Anti-sugar political campaigners, launching their election campaign tomorrow for a new ‘soda tax’, show their true colours when they make ridiculous claims that ‘ sugar is the new tobacco’ . More >>
English puts cart before the horse in tax cut offer
Sunday, 25 June 2017, 7:22 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
“Tax cuts shouldn’t be contingent on healthy growth and incomes, tax cuts are the pathway to healthy growth and incomes,” said Jordan Williams, Executive Director of the Taxpayers’ Union, responding to Prime Minister Bill English’s speech to ... More >>
Last chance for Lawrence Yule to release expenses
Friday, 23 June 2017, 2:31 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
National Party Tukituki Candidate and former Hastings Mayor, Lawrence Yule, is the only mayor in New Zealand whose travel, entertainment, and slush fund is kept secret from New Zealand ratepayers as head of ratepayer-funded lobby group, Local Government ... More >>
Bridges' handout sees taxpayers fork out $600 each
Friday, 23 June 2017, 1:52 pm | Taxpayers' Union
Simon Bridges has announced a second $300,000 non-refundable taxpayer grant to the Tarawera ultramarathon, apparently to attract only 500 international visitors in what must be one of the most ridiculous examples of corporate welfare to date. Jordan ... More >>
Displaced Labour Interns Welcome at The Taxpayers' Union
Thursday, 22 June 2017, 10:54 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Unlike the Labour Party, the Taxpayers' Union pays its student interns and pay at least the "living wage". Its Wellington office has space for at least two more international research interns in the lead up to polling day, and the Union ... More >>
Careful Mr Peters, you don't come to this with clean hands
Wednesday, 21 June 2017, 10:20 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The Taxpayers’ Union says that it’s a bit rich of Winston Peters to criticise the National Party for using its taxpayer-funded leader's fund to pay ‘hush money’ when that is precisely what he used his leader's fund for in late 2013 to fend off ... More >>
Barclay payment not the first
Tuesday, 20 June 2017, 2:59 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
In addition to other parties using leaders' funds to hush former staff, it appears the Todd Barclay episode is not the only time a National Party leader has used taxpayers' money to prevent legal action in relation to allegations of secret recordings. More >>
That's taxpayer money, not your hush money
Tuesday, 20 June 2017, 11:52 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The Taxpayers’ Union is calling on the Auditor General’s office to investigate today’s revelations regarding the use of former Prime Minister John Key’s taxpayer funded ‘leaders budget’ to, allegedly, cover-up allegations of wrongdoing by ... More >>
Joyce/Collins Overrule IRD Mandarins
Tuesday, 20 June 2017, 9:18 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
IRD officials' preference for requiring every working New Zealander to file annual tax returns appears to have been squashed by Finance Minister, Steven Joyce, and Revenue Minister, Judith Collins. More >>
Call for Clinton Foundation funding to cease
Friday, 16 June 2017, 12:55 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
3,000 New Zealanders back NZTU call for Clinton Foundation funding to cease 16 JUNE 2017 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE More than three thousand people have now signed a petition backing the Taxpayers’ Union call for the Government to stop NZ Aid's taxpayer ... More >>
Chatham Islands treaty settlement travel costs skyrocket
Tuesday, 13 June 2017, 5:31 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The Taxpayers’ Union is questioning the efficiency of the Office of Treaty Settlements' travel arrangements, after just nine officials racked up a $57k travel bill to the Chatham Islands alone, in only 18 months. More >>
Tobacco Lobby-Group Breaking Law Claiming Charitable Status
Tuesday, 13 June 2017, 11:03 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The Taxpayers' Union is concerned that despite the recent appointment of Former Prime Minister Helen Clark as patron of ASH (Action on Smoking and Health) New Zealand, the organisation appears to be breaking the law in its public statements that it ... More >>
Tax Threshold Changes Reduce Lifetime Tax by $80k /10 months
Monday, 12 June 2017, 10:10 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The tax threshold changes in last month’s budget will see the largest relative tax savings go to those who already shoulder the smallest relative burden: middle-income earners, according to a report released on Monday by the New Zealand Taxpayers’ ... More >>
Revealed: MFAT Giving Taxpayer Money to North Korea
Monday, 12 June 2017, 9:40 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The New Zealand Taxpayers' Union can reveal that under the current Government, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Trade has given $215,000 to North Korean aid projects, despite the despotic regime's efforts to develop delivery systems for nuclear weapons ... More >>
Position on supermarket bag tax needs clarifying
Friday, 9 June 2017, 4:25 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Hastings Mayor and National Party candidate, Lawrence Yule, needs to clarify whether he supports the Green Party’s policy to implement a supermarket bag tax, after he was quoted in a press release on the subject earlier today. More >>
Labour & Greens Must Endorse Road Toll Undertakings
Wednesday, 7 June 2017, 10:57 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The New Zealand Taxpayers' Union welcomes the Government's undertaking that any form of roadway variable pricing will be used to replace existing road taxes and ease congestion, but not raise more revenue. The group says that the Labour and Green ... More >>
Corporate Welfare Goes Global with Samoan Chocolate Handout
Saturday, 3 June 2017, 2:17 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Corporate Welfare Goes Global with Samoan Chocolate Handout 2 JUNE 2017 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Government is now attempting to pick winners abroad with the Prime Minister announcing today that the cocoa industry in Samoa are set to get a $4.8 million handout. ... More >>
