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WTF: Even VUW are calling for tax cuts
Monday, 22 May 2017, 1:24 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Professor Norman Gemmell, Chair in Public Finance at Victoria University of Wellington, has today called on Steven Joyce to simplify income taxes and provide tax relief. Hear hear, says the Taxpayers Union . More >>
Libraries Should Not Be Turned into Spacie Parlours
Monday, 22 May 2017, 10:04 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The Taxpayers’ Union is questioning the value of the most recent addition to Wellington City Council libraries: video game consoles. The Council’s Libraries team revealed that video consoles had been installed at six libraries across Wellington, at an ... More >>
Total lifetime tax bill for average NZ household $1.48m
Monday, 22 May 2017, 8:47 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
As Steven Joyce prepares to deliver his first budget on Thursday, the Taxpayers’ Union can reveal that the average household pays $1.48 million in tax over a lifetime - equivalent to 15 years of earnings. More >>
Taxpayers should be allowed to see what they paid for
Thursday, 18 May 2017, 10:35 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The Taxpayers’ Union says it is disgraceful that taxpayer-funded venture, Rocket Lab, is refusing to allow the New Zealand public from viewing live images of the planned test launch of the company’s first low earth orbit rocket next week. More >>
Labour Policy: Higher Rents and Reduced Incentive to Build
Monday, 15 May 2017, 11:20 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
“The Labour Party’s new policy to remove negative gearing will see rents go up and reduce the incentive to build new houses”, says Taxpayers Union’ economist Mac Mckenna. More >>
Seymour package affordable, even without cuts
Thursday, 11 May 2017, 12:46 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Responding to ACT Party Leader David Seymour's announcement of the Party's 2017 tax policy, Jordan Williams, Executive Director of the New Zealand Taxpayers' Union , says: More >>
Stats NZ lease deal ‘astronomical’
Thursday, 11 May 2017, 10:23 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Statistics New Zealand’s new lease with Wellington’s Chow Brothers for offices at 318 Lambton Quay signs up taxpayers for $794 per square metre per year – an ‘astronomical’ amount for office space according to the New Zealand Taxpayers’ ... More >>
We must be in surplus: New 'Goldsmith Grants' announced
Wednesday, 10 May 2017, 1:41 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The Taxpayers’ Union is slamming this afternoon’s announcement by Science and Innovation Minister Paul Goldsmith of an additional $74.6 million in Budget 2017 for Callaghan Innovation’s corporate welfare “Growth Grants”. More >>
Crown accounts exploding – time for tax relief
Wednesday, 10 May 2017, 11:43 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The Financial Statements of the Government for the nine months ended 31 March 2017 showing an OBEGAL surplus of $1.5 billion, compared to the HYEFU forecast surplus of $147 million, demonstrate that the $3 billion tax relief package (talked about ... More >>
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 >>
