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Budget 2024: Government Promises To Hike Taxes By Stealth
Thursday, 30 May 2024, 2:30 pm | Taxpayers' Union
The Taxpayers’ Union is condemning the Government for failing to introduce ongoing annual adjustments to income tax brackets for inflation. More >>
Budget 2024: $2.6 Billion Down The Drain For No Climate Benefit
Thursday, 30 May 2024, 2:27 pm | Taxpayers' Union
The Taxpayers’ Union is slamming today’s continuation of a number of Labour’s climate change initiatives as economically and scientifically illiterate. More >>
Budget 2024: The Mother Of All Disappointments
Thursday, 30 May 2024, 2:11 pm | Taxpayers' Union
All in all, this Budget means New Zealand goes further into the red. Debt servicing costs for the coming year will be $9.2 billion. That’s the same as we are forecast to spend on primary schools, secondary schools, and justice combined. More >>
NEW POLL: Just 9% Of New Zealanders Think Grant Robertson’s Wellbeing Budget Didn’t Spend Enough
Wednesday, 29 May 2024, 2:02 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
A new Taxpayers’ Union – Curia poll has revealed that most New Zealanders think that the level of spending in Grant Robertson’s 2019 Wellbeing Budget was about right or too high. Tomorrow’s budget from Nicola Willis should be compared against ... More >>
Taxpayers’ Union Lays Challenge To Nicola Willis Ahead Of Budget Day
Wednesday, 29 May 2024, 12:25 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
As the Minister of Finance prepares to deliver her first budget to the nation this Thursday, the Taxpayers’ Union has issued a challenge to Nicola Willis to keep her promise of delivering effective tax relief to New Zealanders. More >>
ACC Chief Executive Must Lead From The Front With Savings
Tuesday, 28 May 2024, 5:38 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Responding to reports in today’s NZ Herald that ACC chief executive, Megan Main, spent $32,000 of taxpayers’ money on a business class trip to Europe while consulting on nearly 400 job cuts to reduce spending, Taxpayers’ Union Campaigns Manager, ... More >>
Public Service Cuts Must Be Put In Context
Tuesday, 28 May 2024, 5:35 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Responding to numerous reports in media relating to the number of jobs cuts in the Public Service, the Taxpayers’ Union is encouraging the media to put those cuts in context by referencing the more than 18,000 FTE growth in the bureaucracy since ... More >>
Taxpayers’ Union Launches Briefing Paper Calling For $49 A Week Tax Relief
Monday, 27 May 2024, 3:13 pm | Taxpayers' Union
The Taxpayers’ Union is today releasing its latest briefing paper, entitled “$49 Dollars a Week – What Treasury Owes the Average Kiwi.” More >>
The First Day Of The Year Taxpayers Get To Work For Themselves
Sunday, 26 May 2024, 5:16 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
When income tax brackets were last adjusted for the vast majority of Kiwis in 2010, Tax Freedom Day would’ve fallen on 18th May. Thanks to bracket creep, Kiwis are now paying with an extra week of their lives every year to prop up a seriously over-bloated ... More >>
‘Cuts In Context’ Report Launch And Visual Display At Parliament Today
Friday, 24 May 2024, 11:39 am | Taxpayers' Union
Cuts in Context reveals the Government’s proposed cuts to the Public Service departments do not nearly go far enough to rewind the massive staffing increases under the previous Government. More >>
New Wellington Billboards Throw Down $49/Week Gauntlet For Budget
Thursday, 23 May 2024, 2:54 pm | Taxpayers' Union
The Taxpayers’ Union is today launching five billboards around Parliament depicting the Finance Minister riding a piggy bank to emphasise the fact that the average Kiwi needs to see a $49/week tax reduction at next year’s budget in order to reverse ... More >>
Nicola Willis Must Tackle Cost Of Living At Next Week’s Budget
Wednesday, 22 May 2024, 2:15 pm | Taxpayers' Union
35 months and counting of inflation outside the target range keeps eating away at what’s left of Kiwis’ purchasing power, after 14 years of bracket creep has already left them paying $49 a week more in income tax than they were in 2010. More >>
Labour Must Walk The Talk And Join The Campaign Against Corporate Welfare
Tuesday, 21 May 2024, 7:02 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Reacting to today’s Budget Speech from Labour’s Finance spokesperson, Barbara Edmonds, Taxpayers’ Union Campaigns Manager, Connor Molloy, said: “It is encouraging to see that one of Labour’s stated priorities is to focus on creating ‘a level ... More >>
Wake Up Call: Government Debt Hits $90,000 Per Household Today – “$90k Debt Day”
Sunday, 19 May 2024, 1:16 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Based on the latest Treasury forecasts, New Zealand Government debt will tick above $90,000 per household for the first time ever at 10pm today, Sunday 19 May 2024. The Taxpayers’ Union is calling it “$90k Debt Day”. Commenting on this, Taxpayers’ ... More >>
If The Wellington Mayor’s Not Going To Bother Turning Up Anyway, Sell The Airport Shares
Thursday, 16 May 2024, 10:59 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Wellington Mayor Tory Whanau has been revealed to have missed half of all Wellington Airport board meetings in the past year. More >>
NEW POLL: Luxon Wants Tax Bracket Indexation, So Do Kiwis
Thursday, 16 May 2024, 9:51 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Following comments from Prime Minister Christopher Luxon in yesterday’s pre-budget speech that not adjusting tax brackets for inflation each year is “lazy”, the Taxpayers’ Union is releasing a new poll that reveals that the vast majority of ... More >>
Anything Less Than $49/week Isn’t Tax Relief, It’s Shortchanging New Zealanders
Wednesday, 15 May 2024, 2:18 pm | Taxpayers' Union
Connor Molloy, said: “Christopher Luxon is right to point out that inflation over the last 14 has pushed New Zealanders into higher income tax brackets so that they are paying more of their wages in tax even when they are not better off." More >>
Taxpayers’ Union Warns Against Digital Services Tax
Wednesday, 15 May 2024, 11:24 am | Taxpayers' Union
“Introducing this new tax undermines New Zealand’s moral authority to argue against retaliatory protectionist measures from our trading partners with policies that, while neutral on paper, would go against the spirit of free trade through a structure ... More >>
Comical Incompetence As Wellington Council Might Have To Dig Up Brand New $55 Million Bus Lanes And Cycleways
Wednesday, 15 May 2024, 10:14 am | Taxpayers' Union
A memo accidentally released by Wellington City Council shows at least $5.2 million of pipes needing urgent repair have just been covered up by $55 million of brand new bus and cycle lanes on Thorndon Quay. More >>
Luxon Must Rule Out Taxpayer Funding For “fatally Compromised” Christchurch Call
Tuesday, 14 May 2024, 2:32 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Internet Governance Project founder Milton Mueller asked “is the Christchurch Call accomplishing anything?” Increasingly it seems the only thing it hopes to achieve is killing off free expression. More >>
