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NEW POLL: Centre-Right Reaches Highest Level Yet In Seats Forecast
Tuesday, 13 December 2022, 12:22 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The latest Taxpayers' Union – Curia poll puts the Centre-Right bloc on its highest combined seat total since our poll began on 64 seats (up 2 from last month). The Centre-Left bloc drops four seats to a combined total of 52 seats. On decided voting ... More >>
Government Should Prioritise Fixing Roads Over Flashy Comms Campaigns
Monday, 12 December 2022, 11:11 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The abysmal state of roads in the Dome Valley area has drawn the ire of road users and caused Fulton Hogan to issue an apology. The Government owes taxpayers an apology too, says the New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union. New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union Campaign ... More >>
POLL: Kiwis Back Lobbying Cooling-off Period For Former Ministers
Friday, 9 December 2022, 3:08 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
A Taxpayers' Union – Curia poll found that 62% of New Zealanders support a two-year cooling-off period for former ministers before they can become political lobbyists. 14% of respondents were opposed while 24% were unsure. In Australia, the cooling-off ... More >>
Taxpayers’ Union Launches New Campaign: Scrap Three Waters
Thursday, 8 December 2022, 12:08 pm | Taxpayers' Union
The Taxpayers’ Union is today launching a new campaign to protect New Zealanders from higher water costs, unnecessary bureaucracy, and the loss of local control and democratic accountability, with the passing of the framework bill implementing Three ... More >>
Taxpayers’ Union Will Cooperate With Ombudsman And Calls For Applicant Blind Rule
Tuesday, 6 December 2022, 12:54 pm | Taxpayers' Union
New Zealand’s largest user of the Official Information Act and Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act is backing the Ombudsman’s newly launched investigation into a dozen public agencies and is calling on his Office ... More >>
Taxpayers’ Union Board Adopts New Mission For New Zealand’s Most Popular Union
Friday, 2 December 2022, 2:10 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The Taxpayers’ Union ’s Board has formally adopted a new mission to guide the work of New Zealand’s most popularly supported political centre-right pressure group. Lower Taxes, Less Waste, More Transparency, which the Union adopted in 2018, ... More >>
Mortgage Holders Pay The Price For Reckless Government Spending
Wednesday, 23 November 2022, 2:07 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The Reserve Bank today announced that their Official Cash Rate would rise by 0.75 basis points to 4.25%. This increase will push up mortgage rates for Kiwi households, many of which are coming up for renewal in the next few months. New Zealand families ... More >>
Government Should Release Three Waters Legal Advice On Co-governance In Full
Tuesday, 22 November 2022, 12:38 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Grant Robertson today told the New Zealand Herald that Three Waters reforms would "end up in the courts immediately" if they did not include co-governance. The Government previously published cabinet papers including a summary of the legal ... More >>
NEW POLL – Increase In Opposition To Three Waters With 7 In 10 Kiwis Against
Monday, 14 November 2022, 12:14 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
NEW POLL – Increase in Opposition to Three Waters with 7 in 10 Kiwis Against A new Taxpayers' Union Curia poll has found that 7 in 10 Kiwis who expressed a preference oppose the Government's Three Waters reforms. 60% of respondents were opposed compared ... More >>
Government Gaslighting Kiwis With Claim They Are “listening” On Three Waters
Friday, 11 November 2022, 5:56 pm | Taxpayers' Union
Nanaia Mahuta is gaslighting the more than 80,000 New Zealanders who took the time and effort to submit on her flawed Three Waters Bill, which will take community-owned water assets from councils and put them into the control of unaccountable and expensive ... More >>
National Goes Wobbly On Indexation: Luxon Must Commit To Axing The Stealth Tax
Thursday, 10 November 2022, 4:45 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
If National wants to make New Zealand a prosperous and productive society, they need to show a commitment to fully costed tax reform. In comments reported in the New Zealand Herald , both Christopher Luxon and Nicola Willis refused to make a firm ... More >>
Government Waste Celebrated At 2022 Jonesie Awards
Wednesday, 9 November 2022, 2:23 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The fifth annual Jonesie Awards were hosted at Parliament today, celebrating the best of the worst of Government waste. New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union spokesman Callum Purves says, “Every year, we host a glamourous Oscars-style awards ceremony to ... More >>
Adrian Orr Wins Lifetime Achievement Award At Prestigious Event At Parliament
Wednesday, 9 November 2022, 2:06 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The Taxpayers’ Union congratulates newly reappointed Reserve Bank Governor Adrian Orr on winning the prestigious “Lifetime Achievement Award For Excellence In Government Waste” at the Jonesies Awards Ceremony at Parliament this morning. “Mr Orr’s ... More >>
Three Waters Office Signals Higher Water Costs
Wednesday, 9 November 2022, 9:41 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The New Zealand Taxpayer’s Union is unimpressed, but unsurprised at the obscene cost being imposed on taxpayers for Three Waters headquarters in Auckland. “For more than a year, we’ve been warning that Three Waters will mean higher water costs ... More >>
What Cost Of Living Crisis? Adrian Orr Rewarded For Driving Up Inflation
Tuesday, 8 November 2022, 10:46 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The Taxpayers’ Union has condemned the Government’s decision to reappoint Adrian Orr for another five-year term as Reserve Bank Governor despite having failed to keep inflation under control. Taxpayers’ Union Campaigns Manager, Callum Purves, ... More >>
Auckland & Christchurch Mayors Join Stop Three Waters Campaign
Tuesday, 1 November 2022, 10:53 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The Taxpayers’ Union is delighted that even more of the country’s Mayors are joining the fight to Stop Three Waters. Yesterday, the Mayors of Auckland, Christchurch and Waimakariri proposed a democratically accountable alternative to the Government’s ... More >>
Review Virtue Signals The End Of Local Democracy
Friday, 28 October 2022, 11:11 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
New Zealand’s largest ratepayer groups are slamming The Future of Local Government Review panel’s proposal for a new legislative framework to embed co-governance arrangements within local councils and deconstruct democratic accountability. The ... More >>
NEW POLL: 3 In 5 Kiwis Oppose Government’s Unemployment Insurance Proposal
Thursday, 20 October 2022, 3:04 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
A new Taxpayers’ Union Curia poll released today shows a sharp increase in the number of voters who oppose the Government’s proposed unemployment insurance scheme. 60% of respondents opposed the proposal (up 18 points from when a similar question ... More >>
Nosey Parker: Government Snoops Around Kiwis’ Spending Habits
Thursday, 20 October 2022, 10:12 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union is encouraging Kiwis to write to Minister of Revenue, David Parker, about the Government’s intrusive IRD project collecting personal information about spending and family dynamics of ‘high-net worth individuals’. ... More >>
Wayne Brown Shows He Has Courage, Other Mayors Must Follow
Tuesday, 18 October 2022, 2:41 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union applauds Auckland Mayor-Elect Wayne Brown for his immediate action to stop Three Waters and calls on other mayors to do the same. “Three Waters was the main issue of the recent local elections and it is heartening ... More >>
