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IMF Sounds Alarm: Cut Taxes To Get Debt Under Control
Tuesday, 9 May 2017, 1:16 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Excessive tax on Kiwi households is reducing their ability to pay down debt, is the message from the IMF reports released today. The IMF projects household debt will amount to 168% of disposable income by 2022, leaving the New Zealand economy ... More >>
Reports of Tax Freedom Day Premature
Monday, 8 May 2017, 4:06 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Public statements by ACT's David Seymour and accounting firm Staples Rodway that "Tax Freedom Day" is today, are premature according to the New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union . It cites the OECD’s Total Government Outlays as a proportion of the economy ... More >>
Time for Others to Follow Yule And Piece's Fine Example
Friday, 5 May 2017, 3:17 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The Taxpayers’ Union is delighted with the announcement from Hastings Mayor Lawrence Yule and Councillor Adrienne Pierce that they will both be resigning from their positions in advance of the general election. Mayor Yule and Cr Pierce are standing in the ... More >>
Dunne back-peddling
Wednesday, 3 May 2017, 2:13 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Peter Dunne has been caught out as the savings emperor with no clothes, so is now claiming that skyrocketing costs of his new ‘Emergency & Fire New Zealand’ make up for alleged ‘under-investment’ in the fire service. On Monday, the Taxpayers’ ... More >>
Nothing is scarier than a Government in surplus
Wednesday, 3 May 2017, 1:26 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
“A billion here, $300 million there, this Government is beginning to spend like a drunken sailor,” says the Taxpayers’ Union commenting on today’s pre-budget $321 million social package, which comes in addition to the $2 billion pay raise ... More >>
Fire service amalgamation means increase in insurance levy
Monday, 1 May 2017, 11:39 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
New Zealanders will have to pay an extra 40% in their insurance fire levy from July despite the key selling point of the Government’s amalgamation of fire services being ‘efficiency’ - according to a new report being published today by the Taxpayers' ... More >>
OECD Report Misleading: NZ paying too much tax
Wednesday, 26 April 2017, 1:05 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Peter Malcolm – spokesperson for the left wing lobby group “Closing the Gap” – would do better had he actually read the report he was commenting on , says the Taxpayers’ Union head Jordan Williams. More >>
CCC Subsidising housing demand misses the point
Wednesday, 19 April 2017, 1:59 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Christchurch City Council’s decision to spend $3 million of ratepayers’ money to join the Government in establishing a second mortgage scheme for home ownership misses the point in New Zealand’s housing crisis, says the Taxpayers’ Union . ... More >>
Hope That Report Will Bring Smarter Research Investment
Thursday, 13 April 2017, 2:19 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The Taxpayers’ Union is welcoming yesterday’s release of MBIE’s Marsden Fund Assessment Report , and hopes that its recommendations will bring about smarter investment in research. Taxpayers’ Union Researcher Matthew Rhodes says, “In the last round ... More >>
Taxpayers’ Union pay tribute to Sir Douglas Myers
Sunday, 9 April 2017, 2:44 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
TAXPAYERS’ UNION PAY TRIBUTE TO SIR DOUGLAS MYERS 9 APRIL 2017 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Taxpayers’ Union is saddened at the passing of Sir Douglas Myers and wishes to pay tribute to Sir Douglas’ efforts over many decades fighting for better public ... More >>
Healthy Crown Accounts Should Translate to Tax Relief
Thursday, 6 April 2017, 2:25 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Responding to Treasury’s release of the Crown Accounts to the end of February, posting a $1.41 billion OBEGAL surplus, which almost tripled the half-year forecasted surplus of $498 million, the Executive Director of the Taxpayers’ Union, Jordan ... More >>
Huge Win For Smokers Wanting To Kick The Habit (And Save)
Wednesday, 29 March 2017, 1:46 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The Taxpayers’ Union is welcoming today's announcement by the Associate Minister of Health, Nicky Wagner, that the sale of nicotine e-cigarettes will be made legal. More >>
Havelock North Water Inquiry Getting Costly
Tuesday, 28 March 2017, 3:19 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The Taxpayers’ Union can reveal that the the Hastings District Council has almost spent $1 million of ratepayer money on legal and investigation fees in relation to the Havelock North drinking water inquiry. More >>
Justin Lester's Gloating Extraordinary And Unjustified
Monday, 27 March 2017, 3:23 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Taxpayers’ Union staff had to check it wasn’t April-fool’s day when they received Wellington Mayor Justin Lester’s media release about rate hikes in wellington of “just” 3.3% this afternoon. Reacting to Mr Lester’s media statement, the Executive ... More >>
Bracket creep costing average Kiwi worker $500/year
Monday, 27 March 2017, 10:14 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The Government’s failure to index tax brackets to inflation since 2010 now costs the average Kiwi income earner almost $500 each year according to a new report released today by the Taxpayers’ Union . The report, " 5 Options for Tax Relief in ... More >>
Taxpayers’ Union Welcome Labour/Green Fiscal Pact
Friday, 24 March 2017, 3:52 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union is welcoming this morning’s Budget Responsibility Rules announced by the Labour and Green Parties. The rules, which commit a future Labour/Green Government to, among other things, reduce the government’s net debt ... More >>
Tomorrow, Tomorrow, Just Wait Until Tomorrow
Monday, 13 March 2017, 4:27 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
“Are tax cuts tomorrow, or in the never never on Planet National?” Asks Taxpayers’ Union spokesman Jordan Williams. Prime Minister Bill English’s suggestion that any tax cuts would have to wait until 2018 to be implemented, rather than introduced ... More >>
Laurence Yule Leadership Welcomed by the Taxpayers' Union
Thursday, 9 March 2017, 3:02 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The Taxpayers’ Union is welcoming Hastings Mayor, and National Party Tukituki candidate, Laurence Yule’s commitment to stand down as Mayor and not have “a bob each way if he did not succeed in his parliamentary ambitions”, as quoted in ... More >>
Golf tournament funding a hole-in-one for corporate welfare
Wednesday, 8 March 2017, 4:34 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Reacting to today's announcement that $5.5 million will be invested into golfing events, the Taxpayers' Union is questioning the Government's continued support of the tournaments despite previously-funded tournaments failing to meet the expected ... More >>
Ratepayers Not Hornswoggled by PNCC Rates Hike Spin
Tuesday, 7 March 2017, 2:41 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Palmerston North ratepayers won't accept their City Council’s proposed 3.1% rates hike in 2017/2018 , and will not be influenced by their spin doctors’ claim that this is good news for them. More >>
