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Irony of Norwegian Pension Fund Model Lost on Green Party
Monday, 16 January 2017, 2:03 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The Taxpayers' Union is backing Finance Minister Steven Joyce’s criticism of the politicisation by the Green Party of the New Zealand Superannuation Fund after the party called for environmental conditions to be placed on the fund's investment management. More >>
Clinton Global Initiative Closing Its Doors
Monday, 16 January 2017, 12:11 pm | Taxpayers' Union
Clinton Global Initiative Closing Its Doors And Australian Government Shuts Down Taxpayer Gifts to Clinton Group More >>
2,000 join Call for Halt to Clinton Funding
Friday, 13 January 2017, 4:17 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
In the last 12 hours more than one New Zealander per minute have added their name to a petition organised by the Taxpayers’ Union calling on Murray McCully to veto the Ministry of Foreign Affair’s plans to give an additional $5.5million of taxpayers’ ... More >>
MFAT Excuses Re Clinton Foundation ‘Nonsense On Stilts ’
Wednesday, 11 January 2017, 2:04 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The excuse justifying the millions of taxpayer dollars the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) will pay the Clinton Health Access Initiative that it is a “separate legal entity” to the Clinton Foundation is pathetic says the Taxpayers’ Union ... More >>
Government Set to Give Clinton Foundation Another $5.5M
Wednesday, 11 January 2017, 8:38 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The Taxpayers’ Union can reveal that the Government has budgeted to give another $5.5 million dollars of taxpayers’ money to the controversial Clinton Foundation, despite Mrs Clinton’s failed US Presidential bid and controversy over improper ... More >>
Alternative to Cigarettes Still Outlawed
Saturday, 31 December 2016, 1:27 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Another 10% Tobacco Tax Hike – But Alternative to Cigarettes Still Outlawed 31 DECEMBER 2016 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE As smokers stock up on cigarettes today to beat the Government’s 10% hike in tobacco excise tax which comes into effect on New ... More >>
MBIE funded report shows $2b down the toilet
Tuesday, 13 December 2016, 1:23 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
An independent assessment of the Government's Ultrafast Broadband fibre rollout, funded by MBIE, shows that none of Steven Joyce's promised economic productivity gains have resulted and is major blot on the Government’s corporate welfare empire, ... More >>
NZTU Cautiously Welcomes New Minister of Finance
Monday, 12 December 2016, 1:50 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union congratulates Bill English on his appointment to Prime Minister and welcomes comments by Steven Joyce over the weekend in relation to the prudent spending of taxpayers’ money. More >>
Best environment for tax cuts in a generation
Friday, 9 December 2016, 1:07 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
"If the National Party-led Government fails to deliver meaningful tax cuts in Budget 2017, it is unlikely it ever will,” says Jordan Williams, Executive Director of the Taxpayers’ Union reacting to yesterday’s Half Yearly Budget Policy Statement. More >>
Soda Tax Claims Post-Truth Virtue Signalling
Friday, 9 December 2016, 11:32 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The Taxpayers’ Union is calling out those who are pushing for the implementation of a sugary drink tax as a ‘post-truth virtue signalling’ citing evidence that many of the claims being made about sugar taxes are demonstrably wrong. More >>
Taxpayers’ Union Annual Review Released
Monday, 5 December 2016, 1:33 pm | Taxpayers' Union
The New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union has today released its annual review, covering the last 12 months of operations. More >>
KiwiRail’s “nothing to see here” spin not fooling anyone
Wednesday, 30 November 2016, 4:08 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Responding to this afternoon’s media release by Kiwirail , Jordan Williams, the Executive Director of the Taxpayers’ Union says: More >>
Bail-out of GWRC must come with appointment of commissioners
Wednesday, 30 November 2016, 9:23 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
If Greater Wellington Regional Council’s Chairman Chris Laidlaw is to be believed and the Council is talking to the Government about a taxpayer-funded bailout as a result of earthquake damage to CentrePort and its property developments, the Government ... More >>
Time Kiwirail Stopped Hiding Information From Its Bankers
Tuesday, 29 November 2016, 10:08 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The Taxpayers’ Union is calling on KiwiRail to disclose the extent of its insurance and expected cost of damage to the South Island rail network from the Kaikoura earthquake. More >>
Justified Improvement Or Parliamentary Palace?
Monday, 28 November 2016, 5:27 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
No other public agency would get away with the secrecy surrounding the proposal for a new "Parliamentary palace” , says the Taxpayers’ Union , which is renewing its calls for Parliamentary spending to come under the Official Information Act 1982. ... More >>
Taxpayers’ Union Backs Campaign for Parental Caregiver Suppo
Monday, 28 November 2016, 12:25 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The Taxpayers’ Union is backing calls for the Ministry of Health to backdate payments to parental carers of disabled children, after the finding of the Ombudsman that the Ministry acted unfairly and unreasonably when it reduced payments to those caring ... More >>
Greens Kaikoura Rail Campaign Breaches Party’s Own Mantra
Sunday, 27 November 2016, 7:42 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
MEDIA RELEASE Green Party Kaikoura Rail Campaign Breaches Party’s Own Mantra 27 NOVEMBER 2016 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Taxpayers’ Union is calling out a Green Party online petition calling for the Government to “commit to funding rail rebuild” ... More >>
Cold Hard Look at South Island Rail Needed
Wednesday, 16 November 2016, 1:44 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The Taxpayers’ Union is calling for rail and roading links to be examined with equal measure as transport officials examine options in rebuilding transport corridors in the upper South Island damaged in the Kaikoura earthquake. More >>
McCully Should Be Explaining Funding of Clinton Foundation
Friday, 11 November 2016, 2:25 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The Taxpayers’ Union is calling on the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Murray McCully, to explain what value taxpayers have received from the $7.7 million MFAT has donated to the Clinton Foundation’s flagship project, before any of the additional $6 million ... More >>
Council Parties With Ratepayer-Funded Vinyl Collection
Wednesday, 9 November 2016, 9:57 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The Taxpayers’ Union has obtained figures showing Wellington City Council have spent over $20,000 compiling a vinyl collection for Wellington Library. More >>
