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High petrol prices? Blame the Government
Tuesday, 4 July 2017, 1:18 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The Government’s report claiming that fuel margins in New Zealand are not reasonable is a bit rich when fuel taxes account for about 78 cents per litre compared to petrol company margins of less than 30 cents. More >>
Accommodation supplement based on 2005 housing market
Tuesday, 4 July 2017, 12:37 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The accommodation supplement increase in Budget 2017 was based on research findings that differ from every other major economic research report on the subject of landlords absorbing increases in accommodation supplements through higher rents. In addition, ... More >>
Inequality Campaigners Living in Echo Chamber
Monday, 3 July 2017, 12:02 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
It's time for left-wing lobby group ‘Closing the Gap’ to admit that income inequality is not getting worse in New Zealand, as shown by two substantial reports recently published by economic researchers. More >>
Perceptions of local government at all time low
Monday, 3 July 2017, 10:54 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Despite specific commitments by heads of local government to increase the levels of performance, the 2017 "Local Government Survey" reveals that the public's opinion of the performance of local government continues to decline since the last ... More >>
$100 thousand spend to rename road a disgrace
Friday, 30 June 2017, 12:06 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The $100,000 being spent on renaming the old SH1 in Kapiti is disgraceful - as is the local Mayor's approach that the costs don't matter because it's taxpayer, not ratepayers' money. More >>
Napier City Council hikes rates at twice the rate of Aucklan
Friday, 30 June 2017, 11:54 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
“Rate hikes twice the size of Auckland’s are totally unjustified”, says the New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union , responding to Napier City Council’s 4.9 percent rates hike, agreed by Councillors yesterday. “Don’t be fooled by the Council’s ... More >>
Napier City Council hikes rates
Thursday, 29 June 2017, 4:13 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
“Rate hikes twice the size of Auckland’s are totally unjustified”, says the New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union , responding to Napier City Council’s 4.9 percent rates hike, agreed by Councillors yesterday. “Don’t be fooled by the Council’s ... More >>
Vic Crone "responds" to report she has not read
Thursday, 29 June 2017, 12:36 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Callaghan Innovation's head, Vic Crone, would be more authoritative in defending her corporate welfare empire if she bothered to actually read the reports she is giving interviews on in the media. More >>
Socialism for the Rich
Thursday, 29 June 2017, 11:54 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The annual cost of corporate welfare is now $1.6 billion, according to a new report published today by the New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union. ‘Socialism for the Rich’, by Jim Rose, collates the costs of all the corporate welfare expenditure in Budget ... More >>
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 >>
