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Red Card To Sports NZ For $170k E-Card Blunder

Friday, 25 October 2024, 12:47 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union

“Sports NZ’s ability to somehow spend more than $575 per thank-you email takes the gold for government waste. For the $171,598 cost, Sports NZ could’ve bought 8,580 rugby balls. Instead, they sent a few pixels." More >>

Revealed: NZTA Spends $710,000 On Mackenzie Basin Art Sculptures

Thursday, 24 October 2024, 2:26 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union

Taxpayers’ Union Communications Officer, Alex Emes says that NZTA can’t tell the public how much they’re wasting on questionable art across the country, because even they have no way of keeping track of the massive sums. More >>

Government Puts Wellington On The Naughty Step

Tuesday, 22 October 2024, 2:13 pm | Taxpayers' Union

"With the city’s governance being at rock bottom, no one is surprised the Government felt the need to hold the Mayor’s hand” says James Ross, Policy and Public Affairs Manager at the Taxpayers’ Union. More >>

Palmerston North, Time To Sell The Airport

Tuesday, 22 October 2024, 10:59 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union

Mayor Smith and councillors need to do the right thing and use their equity in the airport to pay down spiralling debt levels. More >>

Napier City Council, Get Back To Work

Monday, 21 October 2024, 6:48 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union

Chief Executive Louise Miller, on her $388,500 Chief Executive salary, needs to lead the charge on working onsite, and cut out the ‘show-up-when-you-feel-like-it’ mollycoddle that most private sector workers would disparage. More >>

Kiwis Know Our Infrastructure Investment Isn’t Working

Monday, 21 October 2024, 11:30 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union

Taxpayers’ Union Policy and Public Affairs Manager, James Ross, stated that “everyone’s far too familiar with bursting water pipes and pot-holed roads, so these results come as no surprise. Central government has been distracted from the core investment ... More >>

America’s Cup Returning To New Zealand? Only If The Numbers Stack Up

Monday, 21 October 2024, 11:25 am | Taxpayers' Union

“Dalton and his team’s win has been nothing less than historic” said Taxpayers’ Union Spokesman, Sam Warren. More >>

Health NZ Broke Yet Spends $9,000 On Canapes For ‘Senior Management’

Monday, 21 October 2024, 10:50 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union

“Senior Management at Health NZ need to focus less on feeding off the taxpayer tab and more on balancing the books. $32 per canape - was it caviar dusted with gold?” More >>

Give Our Brightest A Reason To Stay: New Zealand’s Brain-drain Reaching Boiling Point

Friday, 18 October 2024, 10:47 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union

“Back home, many young Kiwis are convinced they have no place. They are overtaxed, uninspired, and home ownership has now become a pipe-dream until well into their forties and fifties.” More >>

Bureaucrat Costs Balloon To More Than $6.5 Billion Dollars

Friday, 18 October 2024, 10:38 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union

“This Government was elected on a promise to put the country’s finances ‘back on track’. However, after going off of these figures, their one year report card would have a big fat ‘F’." More >>

IRD Pulls Wool Over The Eyes Of Minister Watts

Thursday, 17 October 2024, 5:59 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union

“The Hashing process used to protect data has been widely criticised for its reversibility by tech experts across the world, and has even been successfully reversed here in New Zealand.” More >>

Council’s 1500% ‘table Tax’ Hike Completely Out Of Touch

Wednesday, 16 October 2024, 3:37 pm | Taxpayers' Union

“After years of near impossible trading conditions, only now is the sector starting to get off its knees” said Local Government Campaigns Manager, Sam Warren. More >>

Inflation Hasn’t Gone Away, Government Cannot Lose Its Focus

Wednesday, 16 October 2024, 11:01 am | Taxpayers' Union

Taxpayers’ Union Policy and Public Affairs Manager, James Ross, said “that’s only half the story, and the inflation beast isn’t slain yet.” More >>

Film Commission Living It Up In The French Riviera

Tuesday, 15 October 2024, 8:51 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union

Taxpayers’ Union Policy & Public Affairs Manager, James Ross said: “Last year, the Taxpayers’ Union called out the Film Commission for wasting $73,000 at the Cannes Film Festival. Taking that as a challenge, this year they’ve blown more ... More >>

Nicola Willis Should Withdraw Slanderous Accusation Levied At New Zealand Butcheries

Tuesday, 15 October 2024, 3:49 pm | Taxpayers' Union

Nicola Willis' comments on Newstalk ZB this morning were totally over the top. While Wellington City Council might be a sea of red ink, with blood up the walls, backstabbing and skulduggery, this sort of polarised rhetoric is not called for More >>

Tauranga’s Table Tax Another Nail In The Coffin For Businesses

Tuesday, 15 October 2024, 2:45 pm | Taxpayers' Union

“Mayor Drysdale needs to dip his oar in the water and work with local businesses, not against them. Taxing them further into the ground is hardly the right thing to do. More >>

Revealed: Language Commission Gives Away More Than $600k On Keyboards

Tuesday, 15 October 2024, 11:44 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union

“Instead of using taxpayer dollars to improve the lives of Māori, the government is giving corporate handouts straight into the pockets of big business. Subsidising PB Tech with Kiwis’ hard-earned money is the equivalent of throwing taxpayer dollars ... More >>