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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 >>
Retraction and apology received from the Spinoff
Monday, 29 May 2017, 5:04 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The full retraction and apology by the Spinoff, relating to allegations that were totally false and defamatory, contained in an article by Simon Wilson, and published on the Spinoff website morning, is welcome. More >>
Greens right on subsidy for foreigners' medical bills
Monday, 29 May 2017, 3:10 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The Taxpayers’ Union is welcoming Green MP Julie-Anne Genter joining the Union’s calls for greater efforts to be made by the Government and District Health Boards to recover the millions per year written-off due to tourists not paying public health ... More >>
Taxpayers' Union celebrates win on living wage
Monday, 29 May 2017, 2:56 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The Taxpayers’ Union is welcoming the decision of the Hutt City Council last week to reject a blanket ‘living wage’ policy and instead give permission to the Council’s Chief Executive to pay a living wage "where it can be justified as the most cost-effective ... More >>
Spinoff Article on "White Feathers" Totally Wrong
Monday, 29 May 2017, 2:27 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The Taxpayers’ Union , its founders Jordan Williams and David Farrar, the Auckland Ratepayers’ Alliance , and its spokesperson Jo Holmes, totally reject the allegation made on the Spinoff website today that they have sent ‘white feathers’ (either ... More >>
Happy Budget Day: Joyce Gets His Rocket
Thursday, 25 May 2017, 5:40 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
New Zealand taxpayer funding of the US rocket company, Rocket Lab, appears to have delivered its responsible Minister, Steven Joyce, a suitable present – a successful rocket launch – on the same day as Mr Joyce’s first budget. More >>
‘Kiwifail’ black hole continues to grow
Thursday, 25 May 2017, 4:12 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Budget 2017 continues with the tradition of hundreds of millions diverted to Kiwirail but an apparent abandonment of the Government’s “Turn Around Plan” to get Kiwirail on a fiscally sustainable path. Jordan Williams, Executive Director of the Taxpayers’ ... More >>
Very little for business sector in Budget 2017 (resent)
Thursday, 25 May 2017, 2:46 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
25 MAY 2017 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE With the exception of corporate welfare (which taxes all businesses more, to divert grants to favoured businesses and industries) the business-friendly initiative which features in the Budget announcements is a ... More >>
Bill English bets on a modest carrot, big spending
Thursday, 25 May 2017, 2:39 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
‘Vote for National and get a tax cut next year’ is the message from Budget 2017, says Jordan Williams, Executive Director of the Taxpayers’ Union. “But middle and high-income earners will be burdened with a higher proportion of the costs of ... More >>
Budget 2017: Guide to Possible Tax Changes
Thursday, 25 May 2017, 10:21 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Steven Joyce has intimated that this Budget will provide tax relief to New Zealanders through an adjustment in tax thresholds (rather than changes to rates ). More >>
SSC investigation should be wide and thorough
Monday, 22 May 2017, 4:27 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The Taxpayers’ Union says that the State Services Commission's investigation into the Transport Ministry’s handling of warnings about fraudster Joanne Harrison's behaviour while the current Auditor General, Martin Matthews, was Chief Executive ... More >>
At 1:43pm today Kiwis finally stop working for the gov't
Monday, 22 May 2017, 1:41 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Today is 2017 “Tax Freedom Day”. At 1:43pm the average New Zealanders will stop working for the government and for the first time this year begin working for themselves. Jordan Williams, Taxpayers’ Union Executive Director, said, "Tax Freedom Day ... More >>
