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The Time Is Now To Sell TVNZ
Tuesday, 8 October 2024, 9:56 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Taxpayer’s Union Communications Officer, Alex Emes, said: “It’s nice that TVNZ is finally looking to cut costs and start showing an interest in cleaning up the financial boondoggle they have got themselves into.” More >>
Revealed: Tasman Council's $42k Speed Bump Blunder
Monday, 7 October 2024, 5:05 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
It shouldn’t take immense public backlash for Council to decide that these speed bumps were a bad idea to begin with. More >>
High-flying Bureaucrats Blow $150k On Bonn Climate Conference
Monday, 7 October 2024, 5:00 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Bureaucrats will take any excuse to hop on a plane for a holiday. In this case, ten staff hopped off to Germany at a cost to the taxpayer of 15 grand each. It seems like some staff spend more time overseas than they do in the office these days. More >>
Simple ACC Survey Costs More Than $250,000
Monday, 7 October 2024, 11:46 am | Taxpayers' Union
ACC wasting over a quarter of a million dollars on a run-of-the-mill survey shows what happens when you give bureaucrats bottomless budgets to work with. There’s not a chance waste like this would be signed off in the private sector. More >>
Health New Zealand Reports Near $1 Billion Dollar Deficit
Friday, 4 October 2024, 12:01 pm | Taxpayers' Union
“These recent figures highlight the financial mismanagement that occurs at Health New Zealand. With news like this, taxpayers are absolutely in their right to demand answers. More >>
Wellington Can’t Afford Even More Debt
Friday, 4 October 2024, 10:46 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
“Doubling down on the city’s financial crisis is not the answer, and residents can’t take more punishment”, said James Ross, spokesman for the Taxpayers’ Union. More >>
Adrian Orr’s Digital Cash Project Proves Distracting For The Reserve Bank, Costly For Taxpayers
Thursday, 3 October 2024, 5:13 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Inflation has been outside the RBNZ’s target range for 40-months now, meanwhile Adrian Orr has been busy playing about with digital cash. More >>
Who Really Controls Wellington City Council?
Thursday, 3 October 2024, 4:32 pm | Taxpayers' Union
Council chief executive Barbara McKerrow finally ordered the posts to be removed, but not before past and present councillors accused officials of playing politics. More >>
Kiwis Hit By ACC’s Double-Tax Rort
Thursday, 3 October 2024, 3:53 pm | Taxpayers' Union
“Why should Kiwis living overseas be forced to stump up thousands of dollars a year for services they don’t use? More >>
Taxpayers’ Union’s “Bouncy Council” Puts The Spotlight On Hastings Mayor
Wednesday, 2 October 2024, 3:41 pm | Taxpayers' Union
On the very slim chance the Mayor missed the giant pink unicorn bouncy castle, the hundred Hastings residents turning out in the middle of a workday (and on only a few hours’ notice), and the bubble machine, it serves as a warning shot that ratepayers ... More >>
Stratford's New $350k Crossings: Hated By Locals, Costly To Taxpayers
Monday, 30 September 2024, 12:29 pm | Taxpayers' Union
“When ratepayers say they are unhappy, elected members must start listening or face a very difficult election result" said Taxpayers' Union Local Government Campaigns Manager, Sam Warren. More >>
Hastings Mayor And Councillors Have Lost The Plot: Using Kids As Political Play Things
Friday, 27 September 2024, 3:43 pm | Taxpayers' Union
Local government is in crisis and instead of the adults prevailing, Mayor Hazlehurst is inviting kids with, at best, year 10 business studies, to cast votes on governance matters of an organisation with total assets of nearly three billion. More >>
Bureaucrats ‘Burdened’ From The Need To Show Up To Work
Thursday, 26 September 2024, 2:46 pm | Taxpayers' Union
Taxpayers don’t pay bureaucrats full-time salaries for part-time work, but that’s clearly what they’ve been getting over the last few years. More >>
ANZ Bank CEO’s Shameless Self Interest: This Is Why People Hate Bankers
Wednesday, 25 September 2024, 11:50 am | Taxpayers' Union
“New Zealand’s low wage economy is a direct result of under-capitalisation of the private sector and too much money going into unproductive assets and family homes,” said Jordan Williams, a spokesman for the Taxpayers’ Union. More >>
Andrew Coster Has Lost The Plot
Wednesday, 25 September 2024, 9:52 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
"For someone now crying tears about being 'dragged into political debates', it is weird that he was literally leading Morning Report just a few months ago in advocating for minimum pricing of alcohol." More >>
No Time Like The Present To Shine Light On MPs’ Expenses
Tuesday, 24 September 2024, 5:53 pm | Taxpayers' Union
“If the Government’s talking about dragging New Zealand’s Parliament into the modern age, then why aren’t we seriously discussing making the Parliamentary Service subject to the same transparency rules as the rest of the public sector? More >>
Getting Public Sector Staff Back Into The Office A Step Towards Fixing Bureaucratic Inertia
Tuesday, 24 September 2024, 2:10 pm | Taxpayers' Union
We welcome calls made for agencies to bring staff back to work. It's a pragmatic step towards reducing the bureaucratic inertia plaguing countless agencies since work-from-home became common under Covid restrictions. More >>
Tararua District Council Blames Mythical “Systems Failure” For Rates Snafu
Tuesday, 24 September 2024, 12:10 pm | Taxpayers' Union
Local Government Campaigns Manager for the Taxpayers' Union, Sam Warren, said “It was not a systems failure – it was a human failure. Humans design systems and these systems should be designed so that they operate without error. More >>
Revealed: Gisborne’s ‘Better Off’ Funding Is Three Waters Continued Waste
Monday, 23 September 2024, 11:51 am | Taxpayers' Union
Although Gisborne District Council remains one of the few councils to keep rates increases below 10% – at 6.5%, the storm-battered region could have better allocated this funding to prevent these rises. More >>
TVNZ Trying To Find Savings A Bit Too Late
Monday, 23 September 2024, 11:30 am | Taxpayers' Union
Just last month TVNZ reported a $85 million loss for the year, leaving the public asking why these changes haven’t been made sooner. More >>
