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Today’s numbers show tax relief is due
Tuesday, 7 March 2017, 11:15 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Responding to the release of the Government’s Financial Statements for the seven months ended 31 January 2017 showing an OBEGAL surplus of $1,145 million, compared to the HYEFU forecast surplus of $442 million, Jordan Willams, the Executive Director ... More >>
Taxpayers' Union Welcomes Rise in Retirement Age
Monday, 6 March 2017, 4:09 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Reacting to reports of the Prime Minister’s expected announcement this afternoon that the superannuation age of entitlement will raise to 67 within 20 years, Jordan Williams, the Executive Director of the Taxpayers’ Union says: More >>
New Appointments to Taxpayers’ Union Board
Sunday, 5 March 2017, 9:01 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The Former Mayor of the Queenstown Lakes District, Vanessa van Uden, and Wellington academic and businessman, Sashi Meanger, have been appointed Board Members of the New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union. Founding member and long-serving board member Gabrielle ... More >>
Proposed Tax Rules Welcomed with Caution
Friday, 3 March 2017, 3:51 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union is welcoming the consultation papers released by Finance Minister Steven Joyce and Revenue Minister Judith Collins proposing new tax rules relating to multinational companies. Jordan Williams, Executive Director ... More >>
$81K Washington Wing-Ding a Disgrace
Tuesday, 28 February 2017, 2:21 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
In reaction to the $81,000 Trump party thrown by MFAT , Jordan Williams, Executive Director of the New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union says: More >>
Joyce’s Commitment to Mum And Dad Taxpayers Welcomed
Wednesday, 22 February 2017, 1:54 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Steven Joyce’s commitment to Mum and Dad taxpayers and more efficient public services in his speech yesterday to the Institute of Public Administration New Zealand is being welcomed by the New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union . More >>
Judge's Comments Suggest Bribery More Widespread
Wednesday, 22 February 2017, 11:59 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Reacting to the sentencing of Stephen Borlase and Murray Noone for bribery , Jordan Williams, Executive Director of the New Zealand Taxpayers' Union says: “Justice Fitzgerald’s has made very clear that illegal gift-giving and backhanders were ... More >>
Living wage policy shuts out the minimum waged from jobs
Tuesday, 21 February 2017, 1:16 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union thanks Wellington City Council Chief Executive Kevin Lavery for so quickly conceding the central criticism of a report on living wage policies released by the Taxpayers’ Union last night , that those earning ... More >>
Time for Phil Goff to See Sense on Living Wage
Tuesday, 21 February 2017, 9:23 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Phil Goff’s plan to implement a living wage at Auckland Council should be scrapped after it was revealed by the New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union that Wellington City Council’s own living wage policy led to job losses for seventeen parking wardens. ... More >>
17 jobs lost, more to go under WCC's living wage policy
Tuesday, 21 February 2017, 9:22 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Seventeen parking wardens contracted by Wellington City Council were not rehired in-house, with further job losses inevitable under the Council’s living wage policy, according to a new report written by Jim Rose for the New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union ... More >>
Turei now having it both ways
Friday, 17 February 2017, 4:16 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
A sugar tax “ would make a very little difference ” according to Green Party co-leader Metiria Turei who spoke to NBR Radio today. She rebuted the Taxpayers’ Union pointing out her double standard in complaining about the closure of Dunedin’s ... More >>
The Greens Must Be Kidding!
Friday, 17 February 2017, 1:36 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Coffee was spat out this afternoon at the Taxpayers’ Union when Green Party Co-leader Metiria Turei released a media statement labelling the closure of the Cadbury chocolate factory a “tragedy for Dunedin and local manufacturing”. The comments by Ms Turei ... More >>
Little Version of ‘Think Big’ for Gisborne
Friday, 17 February 2017, 1:20 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union is slamming Labour Leader Andrew Little’s pledge today to spend $20 million of taxpayers’ money “to enable the construction of a timber prefabrication plant and associated infrastructure in Gisborne” , announced ... More >>
Joyce Talks the Talk, Now Walk the Walk
Thursday, 16 February 2017, 5:27 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union is very encouraged by Minister of Finance Steven Joyce’s speech to Massey University and the Auckland Chamber of Commerce earlier today in relation to his role as Minister of Finance and the Government’s commitment ... More >>
Healthy Government Books Show Room for Tax Cuts
Thursday, 16 February 2017, 12:54 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Responding to today’s release by the Treasury of the Financial Statements of the Government of New Zealand, showing higher tax revenue and lower expenses than forecast, Jordan Williams, Executive Director of the New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union says: More >>
Yule set to cost ratepayers $100k
Thursday, 16 February 2017, 10:36 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Ratepayers are on the hook for between $90,000 and $100,000 in by-election costs if Lawrence Yule is elected to Parliament later in the year as the National Party's Tukituki candidate or on the list. The figures were revealed after the taxpayer group ... More >>
Peters too posh for Jetstar?
Wednesday, 15 February 2017, 10:21 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The Taxpayers' Union is disappointed but not surprised the Rt. Hon Winston Peters is upset with a change in Government policy which means politicians will soon be 'roughing it with the people' on Jetstar. Last year the Taxpayers’ Union highlighted ... More >>
Petrol prices are a rort
Thursday, 9 February 2017, 2:25 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The Taxpayers’ Union says that the focus on petrol margins earned by fuel companies, is a classic ‘bait and switch’ by politicians to avoid questions about the enormous taxes they impose at the pump. Responding to Energy and Resources Minister Judith ... More >>
Another Joyce Corporate Welfare Deal Gone Wrong
Wednesday, 8 February 2017, 11:32 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union says the $23 million windfall return to internet billionaire Peter Thiel in a corporate welfare sweetheart deal with the Government-owned New Zealand Venture Investment Fund shows why the Government’s programmes of corporate ... More >>
Treasury Agrees sugar Tax Doesn’t Work
Friday, 3 February 2017, 5:39 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The Treasury’s conclusion that a sugar tax will hurt the very people it is trying to help, is entirely consistent with previous research by the New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union. Responding to today’s release of Treasury’s working papers on the subject ... More >>
