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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 >>
Another Bribe Doesn’t Polish The Three Waters Turd
Tuesday, 19 July 2022, 3:12 pm | Taxpayers' Union
The Taxpayers’ Union says the Government’s latest pathetic attempt to bribe councils with taxpayer money as part of a new package for Three Waters doesn’t make the proposed reforms any more palatable. Responding to the just announced additional ... More >>
The Highest Inflation In A Generation
Monday, 18 July 2022, 10:54 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Today’s inflation figure of 7.3% demonstrates again just how far out of control Grant Robertson and Labour Government spending is. The Finance Minister cannot continue to bury his head in the sand while costs increase at an alarming rate. He must take ... More >>
If Only The Pain Was Just At The Pump
Sunday, 17 July 2022, 5:47 pm | Taxpayers' Union
The Taxpayers’ Union welcomes the Government’s delay to its planned petrol tax hike of 25 cents as the hike would have been a cruel imposition on Kiwis who are experiencing skyrocketing increases in the cost of living across the board. “The ... More >>
Anti-Three Waters Councils Must Back Up Words With Action
Thursday, 7 July 2022, 12:34 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union is calling on councils who have voted to oppose Three Waters to join the formal coalition of councils fighting the reforms. Union spokesman Louis Houlbrooke says, “After dozens of councillors and mayors across ... More >>
Laurence Kubiak Appointed To Chair The Taxpayers’ Union
Wednesday, 6 July 2022, 12:59 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Laurence Kubiak has been appointed to Chair the New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union . Mr Kubiak is a high tech entrepreneur (CEO and shareholder at Nautech Electronics), Chair of Trustees Executors Ltd, a Director of Northpower, and recent Chair of the ... More >>
GDP Shock Makes Tax Relief Even More Pressing
Thursday, 16 June 2022, 4:22 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Today’s GDP figures make tax relief even more pressing as the economy shrinks and householders do it tough, says New Zealand’s largest centre-right pressure group, the Taxpayers’ Union . Union Executive Director, Jordan Williams, said: ... More >>
Stop Three Waters Petition Hits 100,000 Signatures – Roadshow Expanded
Wednesday, 8 June 2022, 7:39 pm | Taxpayers' Union
The campaign to Stop Three Waters has reached a significant milestone, with the official petition reaching 100,000 signatures. Further, in response to popular demand, the Taxpayers’ Union has added three new events to the Stop Three Waters roadshow ... More >>
New Poll: 76% Believe Water Entities Should Be Accountable To Voters
Friday, 3 June 2022, 11:15 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Three quarters of New Zealanders believe that those responsible for water services should be directly accountable to voters, reveals a new scientific poll commissioned by the Taxpayers’ Union . The poll of 1,000 New Zealanders was undertaken by Curia ... More >>
With Three Waters Legislation Introduced, Select Committee Must Tour Affected Communities
Thursday, 2 June 2022, 3:47 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
In response to the introduction of the Three Waters legislation , the Taxpayers’ Union is calling on the Select Committee in charge to conduct its submission process in person, up and down the country in a roadshow. Union spokesman Louis Houlbrooke ... More >>
Taxpayers’ Union Launches Nationwide "Stop Three Waters" Roadshow
Tuesday, 31 May 2022, 12:08 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
New Zealand's largest centre-right grassroots movement is hitting the road for a five-week, nationwide roadshow to hear and highlight the concerns of ratepayers and elected councillors threatened by the Government’s Three Waters regime – and ... More >>
Monetary Policy Needs Fiscal Friends
Thursday, 26 May 2022, 4:11 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
In today’s Finance and Expenditure Select Committee briefing, the Reserve Bank Governor was questioned by MPs about Government spending and said, “We believe it is putting upward pressure on aggregate demand and hence inflation” in the near-term. ... More >>
