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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 >>
Bribe-O-Meter Update
Tuesday, 25 July 2017, 3:13 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The cost of the Labour Party’s election policies has doubled in only a week to $17.5 billion over the next three years according to the Taxpayers’ Union Bribe-O-Meter, which tracks the costs of election policies as they are announced. $17.5 billion ... More >>
LGNZ lobby group ignoring duties of political neutrality
Monday, 24 July 2017, 1:23 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The Taxpayers' Union is slamming the use of ratepayer money by Local Government New Zealand in promoting an 'election manifesto', launched yesterday by Lawrence Yule, a National Party candidate. More >>
Waikato-Tainui tax bill a disgrace
Sunday, 23 July 2017, 8:09 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Waikato-Tainui tax bill a disgrace 23 JULY 2017 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The self-congratulations by Waikato-Tainui for its record profit announcement today is soured by the fact it doesn’t pay company tax on the vast majority of its investments, points out ... More >>
Labour Party costing's set a good benchmark
Thursday, 20 July 2017, 3:09 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Labour Party costing's set a good benchmark for other parties to follow 20 JULY 2017 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Putting aside the merits of the policies, the Taxpayers’ Union welcomes Labour's transparency and the detail contained in its ‘Alternative ... More >>
IRD should hold the phone before cutting jobs
Wednesday, 19 July 2017, 3:55 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The Inland Revenue’s expected announcement to cut at least 1500 jobs later today is baffling, given news they don’t even have enough staff to pick up their phones, says the New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union. More >>
Poof! There goes Callahan's excuse for Oracle R & D funding
Wednesday, 19 July 2017, 3:16 pm | Taxpayers' Union
Team New Zealand’s proposal for the 36th America’s Cup yachts to be built in home countries undermines the $5 million a year of Callahan Innovation corporate welfare available to America’s Cup teams, including American team Oracle (owned ... More >>
Labour Spending Big Early, National Keeping Powder Dry
Wednesday, 19 July 2017, 10:18 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
19 July 2017 - The first edition of the Taxpayers' Union's Bribe-O-Meter shows that the Labour Party has already promised policies which exceed the costs of its whole 2014 election manifesto, while the National Party barely opened the wallet. More >>
2017 Election "Bribe-O-Meter" Launched
Tuesday, 18 July 2017, 3:49 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The Taxpayers’ Union is repeating its popular election costing tool with the launch of the 2017 General Election Bribe-O-Meter to keep track of the cost of party manifestos in the lead up to polling day. More >>
Problem yes, but Labour’s solution unrealistic
Tuesday, 18 July 2017, 2:21 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Problem yes, but Labour’s solution unrealistic 18 JULY 2017 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Taxpayers’ Union’s Economic Fellow, Jim Rose, says that Labour’s diverted profit tax does not add up, pointing to the additional revenue the Party claims will ... More >>
$7 million of taxpayer money for power bills
Tuesday, 18 July 2017, 11:42 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The Taxpayers’ Union can reveal that over $7 million of taxpayer money has been spent on the power bills of 94 of New Zealand’s largest companies since July 2014. The Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority’s (EECA) ‘large energy users ... More >>
Apology to LGNZ and assessors of Horowhenua District Council
Tuesday, 18 July 2017, 11:39 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Apology to LGNZ and assessors of Horowhenua District Council re CEO's filtering of email More >>
