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National And Greens Undermine Public Service Standards
Friday, 26 August 2022, 11:10 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union supports Minister Andrew Little in his rebuke of public servant Dr Gary Jackson for using his position as Director of Public Health at Counties Manukau to lobby MPs. “National and the Green Party have criticised ... More >>
Petition Launched For Ardern To Share Content Of OIA Workshop And Clear Names Of Those Involved
Monday, 22 August 2022, 2:56 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union is calling on Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to make public the presentation slides, documentation, and accounts of the content of the OIA workshop in which Dr Gaurav Sharma claims coaching on how to avoid the Official ... More >>
Ombudsman Should Launch Investigation Into Dr Sharma’s Allegations Of OIA-dodging
Saturday, 20 August 2022, 6:24 pm | Taxpayers' Union
Ombudsman should launch investigation into Dr Sharma’s allegations of OIA-dodging - even if just to clear those allegedly involved. The Taxpayers’ Union has today written to the Ombudsman Peter Boshier requesting he investigate the claims made ... More >>
Victory For Taxpayers As Waka Kotahi Back Down
Friday, 19 August 2022, 1:38 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The New Zealand Taxpayers Union commends Waka Kotahi for listening to taxpayers who called them out for their extreme speed camera plans and backing down from their intentions to saturate roads with cameras. "The cost to set up the immense number ... More >>
Stephen Town Finds The Time To Resign - But Where Is The Explanation?
Wednesday, 17 August 2022, 2:39 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Having found time in his busy schedule, missing civil servant Stephen Town has hung up his boots and resigned from his $13,000-a-week garden leave ‘job’ - which is cushy even for Wellington. “We are delighted that our efforts to find Stephen ... More >>
POLL: Kiwis Support Spending Cuts
Wednesday, 17 August 2022, 2:10 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The Taxpayers’ Union says that cuts to Government spending are a far better way to deal with the inflation crisis than the Reserve Bank of New Zealand hiking the Official Cash Rate – and the public agree. Kiwi voters understand the drivers behind ... More >>
Human Rights Commission Sacrifice Renters In Favour Of Ideology
Tuesday, 16 August 2022, 10:26 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The departure of the Human Right’s Commission from its core role to defend classical human rights into left wing ideological advocacy would be comical if the policies it is pushing weren’t so dangerous, says the Taxpayers’ Union. “This was always ... More >>
Urgent Letter To Select Committee To Save 65,000 Submissions
Wednesday, 10 August 2022, 1:44 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union has written to the Finance and Expenditure Committee on behalf of the more than 65,000 New Zealanders who took the time to submit on the Water Services Entities Bill (Three Waters) through our submission tool. “We learnt ... More >>
Government Have Ignored Kiwis, But Auditor General Echoes Concerns
Monday, 8 August 2022, 3:59 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The Government must listen to the concerns of the Auditor General in his submission on the Water Services Entities Bill, Taxpayers' Union Executive Director Jordan Williams says. "The concerns of the Auditor General echo those made by the more than ... More >>
Housing Crisis - Government Must Get Out Of The Way
Friday, 5 August 2022, 12:13 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The Government’s meddling is driving up the cost of land and contributing to the ongoing housing crisis, Taxpayers’ Union Executive Director Jordan Williams says. “The ‘huge upfront’ purchase of land at Ferncliffe Farms is setting off major ... More >>
Our Mistake, Christopher Luxon Still Committed To Indexation
Thursday, 4 August 2022, 12:07 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The Taxpayers’ Union has received assurances from Christopher Luxon that tax indexation is still National Party policy, the Leader of the Opposition saying that “inflation indexation remains a key commitment of any future tax plan.” Taxpayers’ Union ... More >>
Time For National To Stand For Something
Thursday, 4 August 2022, 10:18 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The Taxpayers’ Union is slamming the National Party for jettisoning one of its very few policies: income tax relief. “Backing down from their income tax reduction policy after copping a hard time from other parties demonstrates how quickly Christopher ... More >>
New Zealand Government To Break The Space-time Continuum
Wednesday, 3 August 2022, 3:33 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union is keen to learn how the Government has figured out how to break the space-time continuum in order to hear all oral submissions on Three Waters in just 4 days. “Einstein’s theories of relativity are no match ... More >>
Legal Opinion: Three Waters Bill “Calculated To Deceive”
Tuesday, 2 August 2022, 4:40 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Like tens of thousands of New Zealanders, the Taxpayers’ Union submitted to the Finance and Expenditure Select Committee on Three Waters (Water Services Entities Bill). With the Union’s submission was a bombshell legal opinion. Ministers have ... More >>
IRD Payments To Ex-pats Disgraceful - And Ministers’ Answers Don’t Stack Up
Monday, 1 August 2022, 12:39 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The Government is scrambling to appear nonchalant about pouring taxpayers’ earnings down the brain drain, but their excuses don’t pass the sniff test, says Taxpayers’ Union Executive Director Jordan Williams. “IRD recently spent $1500 million ($1.5billion) ... More >>
It’s Official: Young Nats Fizz Over Green Party ‘big Loan’ Energy
Wednesday, 27 July 2022, 5:31 pm | Taxpayers' Union
It’s official: the Young Nats have lost their fiscal conservatism, relegated to a social club of public policy misfits and losers who weren’t cool enough for the Greens. Earlier today, the Young Nats joined Green Party MP Chlöe Swarbrick in calling ... More >>
Proposed Smoking Law Is Payday For The Gangs
Tuesday, 26 July 2022, 2:56 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Parliament is yet again playing into the hands of gangs, and boosting their place as the third player in the cigarette market with new legislation targeting smokers and dairy owners. The first reading of Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products ... More >>
68,661 Stop Three Waters Submissions Delivered To Parliament By The Taxpayers’ Union
Monday, 25 July 2022, 6:40 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
New Zealanders have said Stop Three Waters, with 68,661 submissions lodged at www.StopThreeWaters.nz by 65,091 unique users on the Government’s Water Services Entities Bill by midnight last Friday. Of those 8,634 people indicated they’d like to make an oral submission. ... More >>
Waka Kotahi Waste Taxpayer's Funds On Navel-gazing Project
Thursday, 21 July 2022, 10:43 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union is questioning the benefit of Waka Kotahi’s proposed research into ‘Māori experiences and expectations of the transport system in Aotearoa New Zealand’. “Given the extraordinary spending that has gone on ... More >>
LGNZ Bans New Zealand’s Largest Ratepayers’ Group From Conference
Wednesday, 20 July 2022, 4:05 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Fewer than 24 hours before the opening of the Local Government New Zealand conference in Palmerston North, the Taxpayers’ Union was notified by LGNZ that the Union’s registration to attend the event has been revoked and that all union members, staff ... More >>
