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National In Danger Of Swapping One Middle-Class Subsidy For Another
Sunday, 1 October 2023, 7:48 pm | Taxpayers' Union
Commenting on the National Party’s re-affirmation of their pledge to scrap the Clean Car Discount, Taxpayers’ Union Policy Adviser, James Ross, said: “Under Labour’s Ute Tax, families, farmers and tradies have been subsidising the lifestyle ... More >>
Taxpayers’ Union Slams National’s Alternative Fiscal Plan
Friday, 29 September 2023, 1:13 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The Taxpayers’ Union is slamming the plan released by the National Party today saying it barely touches the sides in terms of cutting waste, and realigning the sector to live within the country’s means. Taxpayers’ Union spokesperson Jordan ... More >>
Taxpayers’ Union Calls Hipkins’ GST Bluff – Releases The Modelling And Challenges Hipkins To Do The Same
Thursday, 28 September 2023, 4:13 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Following recent concerns raised by the Taxpayers’ Union that Labour’s GST-exempt policy would leave a revenue hole of up to $411m because, as Labour have claimed, more people may eat fresh fruit and vegetables if they were cheaper, yesterday Chris ... More >>
Ministry Of Education Still Failing To Deliver For Kiwi Kids
Thursday, 28 September 2023, 2:45 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Responding to the release of the OECD’s latest Education at a Glance report, Taxpayers’ Union Policy Adviser, James Ross, said: “Since 2018, investment received by the Ministry of Education has increased by nearly 75%. Despite this, outcomes for our ... More >>
Grocery Supply Code Will Drive Food Prices Even Higher
Thursday, 28 September 2023, 1:32 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Commenting on the Grocery Supply Code of Conduct coming into force, Taxpayers’ Union Policy Adviser, James Ross, said: “The grocery supply code of conduct has completely missed the root causes of New Zealand’s sky-high grocery prices. Lack ... More >>
Labour’s Fiscal Plan Doubles Down On More Spending, High Taxes And Runaway Debt
Wednesday, 27 September 2023, 1:21 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Responding to the Labour Party’s Fiscal Plan, Taxpayers’ Union Head of Campaigns, Callum Purves, said: “Labour’s current economic plan of overtaxing hard-working New Zealanders just to waste money on middle-managers, consultants and vanity projects ... More >>
Hipkins Completely Misunderstands His Own Party’s GST Costings
Wednesday, 27 September 2023, 12:23 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Chris Hipkins’ claim this morning that Labour’s costings for removal of GST off fruit and veg account for behavioural changes are completely untrue. Responding to Mr Hipkins’ attacks on the Union, spokesman Jordan Williams said: “We couldn’t ... More >>
NEW POLL: Voters torn in Auckland Central electorate
Tuesday, 26 September 2023, 8:24 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
A new Taxpayers’ Union – Curia poll in the Auckland Central Electorate has voters undecided between Greens incumbent Chlöe Swarbrick (polling at 26% of voters) and National candidate Mahesh Muralidhar (polling at 24%) - a statistical tie when accounting ... More >>
Handing Climate Policy To Appointed Bureaucrats Is Undemocratic And Ineffective
Tuesday, 26 September 2023, 12:01 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Responding to Labour’s promise to hand control over carbon pricing under the Emissions Trading Scheme to the Climate Change Commission, Taxpayers’ Union Deputy Campaigns Manager, Connor Molloy, said: “Handing control of carbon pricing away to faceless ... More >>
Taxpayers’ Union Welcomes National’s Sanction Regime On The Job-Seeker Benefit
Tuesday, 26 September 2023, 11:51 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Taxpayers’ Union welcomes National’s sanction regime on the Job-Seeker Benefit Responding to National’s proposed changes to the Job-Seeker benefit scheme, Taxpayers’ Union National Campaigns Manager, Callum Purves, said: “The current job-seeker ... More >>
Labour’s Climate Announcement Is Economically And Scientifically Illiterate
Monday, 25 September 2023, 2:39 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Responding to the release of Labour’s Climate Manifesto, Taxpayers’ Union Deputy Campaigns Manager, Connor Molloy, said: "Yet again, we are seeing a swathe of policies that fail to recognise the genius and effectiveness of our existing Emissions ... More >>
Blanket Speed Reductions Increase Prices And Stifle Wages
Sunday, 24 September 2023, 7:43 pm | Taxpayers' Union
Responding to National’s plans to reverse Labour’s blanket speed reductions, Taxpayers’ Union Policy Adviser, James Ross, said: “The real cost of reducing speed limits is far more than just changing some signs, and it is not a policy which ... More >>
Spoilt Policy: Why We Must Keep GST Simple And Free Of Food Carve-outs
Friday, 22 September 2023, 2:06 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
A new report published by the New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union analysing the impacts of taking GST off fresh fruit and vegetables concludes that the policy would be expensive, complicated, poorly targeted and would see most of the benefits going to supermarkets ... More >>
It Shouldn’t Take An Election To Get Government To Cut Waste
Friday, 22 September 2023, 11:41 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Responding to news that the Ministry for the Environment intends to cut back hundreds of jobs, Taxpayers’ Union Policy Adviser, James Ross, said: “Since 2017, Government spending has increased by nearly 70%. Expenditure at the Ministry for the Environment ... More >>
NEW POLL: Kiwis Prefer Luxon/Willis Over Hipkins/Robertson To Tackle Cost Of Living Crisis
Friday, 22 September 2023, 10:50 am | Taxpayers' Union
A new Taxpayers' Union – Curia poll found that New Zealanders preferred Christopher Luxon and Nicola Willis (46% of respondents) to Chris Hipkins and Grant Robertson (37%) as the most trusted team to deal with the cost of living crisis. 17% of respondents ... More >>
Taxpayers' Union Welcomes ACTs Revised Alternative Budget
Thursday, 21 September 2023, 3:47 pm | Taxpayers' Union
Commenting on the updates to ACT’s alternative budget, Taxpayers’ Union Policy Adviser, James Ross, said: “The only true tax cut is a spending cut, and we welcome ACT’s commitment to tackling the damage caused by 6 years of Labour’s dangerous ... More >>
Taxpayers’ Union Welcomes National’s Plan To Revive The International Education Sector
Thursday, 21 September 2023, 1:48 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Responding to National’s four step plan to boost international enrolments across Tertiary Education Institutions, Taxpayers' Union Deputy Campaigns Manager, Connor Molloy said: “At a time when universities all over the country are reporting crushing ... More >>
New Zealand Needs To Boost Productivity
Thursday, 21 September 2023, 11:17 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Responding to the latest update to New Zealand’s GDP figures, Taxpayers’ Union Policy Adviser, James Ross, said: “As New Zealand struggles under the cost-of-living crisis, the Government must focus on increasing productivity in order to grow the ... More >>
Wayne Brown Right To Call For Devolution Of Powers
Tuesday, 19 September 2023, 7:11 pm | Taxpayers' Union
Responding to Mayor Brown’s Auckland Manifesto, Taxpayers’ Union Policy Adviser, James Ross, said: “Wayne Brown is on the right track calling for devolution of powers from central government to local communities, but we need to go further. New ... More >>
IRD And Treasury Advice Suggests Supermarkets Main Beneficiaries From Labour’s GST Policy
Monday, 18 September 2023, 2:30 pm | Taxpayers' Union
The Taxpayers’ Union can reveal that as part of the Tax Working Group appointed by Grant Robertson, and chaired by the late Michael Cullen, Treasury and IRD conducted analysis on what percentage of exempting GST from certain goods would actually be ... More >>
