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Failure To Support Businesses With Minimum Wage Hike Will Cost Jobs
Tuesday, 17 March 2020, 3:48 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The New Zealand Taxpayers' Union is criticising the Government's failure to cover the cost to businesses of the minimum wage increase scheduled for April. Taxpayers' Union spokesperson Islay Aitchison says, "Support for businesses facing the ... More >>
Relief Package A Solid First Step
Tuesday, 17 March 2020, 3:29 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The New Zealand Taxpayers' Union is welcoming temporary measures to ease pressure on employers contained in today's economic relief package. Taxpayers' Union spokesman Jordan Williams says, "Today's economic relief package is a solid first step ... More >>
COVID-19: Taxpayers’ Union Release Recommendations For New Zealand’s Immediate Economic Response
Monday, 16 March 2020, 3:16 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Responding to the developing threat of COVID-19 to the New Zealand economy, the New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union has released a paper outlining its recommendations in advance of the Government’s package being announced tomorrow. Taxpayers' Union ... More >>
Picture Of Wasteful Spending: Taxpayers Coughing Up For Arty Italian Holiday
Tuesday, 10 March 2020, 4:06 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The New Zealand Taxpayers' Union can reveal that Creative New Zealand and Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa are providing nearly $900,000 in taxpayer money for artists and curators to attend the Venice Art Biennale in 2021. "Showing ... More >>
Taxpayers' Union Delighted To Offer PM A Briefing On Quit Group
Monday, 9 March 2020, 5:17 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Responding to her confusion and desire for information during this afternoon's Post-Cabinet press conference, the New Zealand Taxpayers' Union is offering to brief the Prime Minister on Quit Group's massive taxpayer rip-off. Spokesman Jordan Williams says, ... More >>
Quit Group Charity Hoarding 2.8 Million Of Taxpayer Money
Monday, 9 March 2020, 1:05 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The New Zealand Taxpayers' Union can reveal that Quit Group is holding 2.8 million taxpayer dollars, despite losing its government contract in 2015. Taxpayers Union spokesperson Islay Aitchison says, "In 2016, the Ministry of Health asked Quit ... More >>
Green Party Backbenchers Spend Most On Flights
Thursday, 5 March 2020, 1:35 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The Parliamentary expense disclosure released today shows that, on average, Green Party list MPs are outspending list MPs in all other parties on air travel. On average, the list MPs from the Greens are spending more than a third more than Labour's equivalent. ... More >>
Government Failing Duty To All Kiwis In Not Testing 19 Patients In Wellington
Tuesday, 3 March 2020, 12:23 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union says the Government is failing in one of its most fundamental roles by not protecting the public from CONVID-19, with news today that it is refusing to test 19 patients in Wellington with suspected symptoms. “If ... More >>
National STILL Won’t Commit To Cutting Fuel Tax
Friday, 28 February 2020, 11:31 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
An RNZ headline this morning proclaims that National is ‘ promising to scrap fuel tax if elected ’. But the official press statement from National’s Finance spokesman Paul Goldsmith says otherwise. New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union spokesman ... More >>
Wealthy Politicians And Bureaucrats Should Give Up Their Super
Thursday, 27 February 2020, 1:04 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
In response to reports that 30,000 New Zealanders earning over $100,000 are taking superannuation, New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union spokesperson Casey Russell says: “It’s clear that many wealthy New Zealanders are collecting superannuation they don’t ... More >>
Exposed: The Shocking $6.2m Bill To Rebrand Fire Services
Tuesday, 25 February 2020, 12:58 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The $6,254,064 cost of rebranding New Zealand’s fire services is a shocking indictment on the merger of rural and urban services, which was meant to save taxpayer money, says the New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union . The spending figures were tabled to select ... More >>
Vaping Crackdown Bill Needs Improvement
Sunday, 23 February 2020, 12:49 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Details of the Government's newly-announced vaping crackdown may keep New Zealanders smoking and paying exorbitant excise taxes, says the New Zealand Taxpayers' Union. Taxpayers' Union spokesman Louis Houlbrooke says, "We welcome the decision not ... More >>
Adrian Orr Short Staffed? Tell Him He’s Dreaming
Thursday, 20 February 2020, 3:56 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The Taxpayers’ Union is calling on MPs to reject Adrian Orr’s crocodile tears and claims he needs a increase in budget to cover exploding staff costs at the Reserve Bank. Responding to Mr Orr’s comments before the Finance and Expenditure Select ... More >>
Enough Is Enough – Taxpayers Aren't Stumping Up, Build The Houses Already
Wednesday, 19 February 2020, 1:09 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The Taxpayers' Union says Fletcher Building needs to get on with the job of building houses rather than holding out for a taxpayer bailout of Ihumātao which most taxpayers are clear they don't want. Union spokesman Louis Houlbrooke says, "The backroom ... More >>
Taxpayer-funded Homeopathy Courses Are An Embarrassment
Tuesday, 18 February 2020, 1:43 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union is perplexed at the prospect of the continued funding of homeopathy courses by the government and is calling on the Minister of Education Chris Hipkins to immediately cease any further funding to the subject. ... More >>
Why are taxpayers paying to design an electric ferry?
Tuesday, 18 February 2020, 11:19 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
“Callaghan Innovation’s $440,000 grant for an electric ferry design is pure corporate welfare,” says New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union spokesman Louis Houlbrooke. “If EV Maritime’s ferries present such good value, then why didn’t it get private ... More >>
Maori Mythology, And Governor Temper Tantrums, Have No Place At The Reserve Bank Of New Zealand
Tuesday, 18 February 2020, 12:27 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The extraordinary events reported by the Sunday Star Times yesterday about the Governor of the Reserve Bank “agitated and clearly unhappy” exchanges in a Koru lounge and airport do not reflect well on what was once a leading office in New Zealand, ... More >>
Bridges’s economic ambitions underwhelming
Monday, 17 February 2020, 2:56 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
It’s not worth putting much credence in Simon Bridges’s complaints about the current Government’s piling on hikes in petrol taxes until he commits to reversing them, says the Taxpayers’ Union . Spokesman Louis Houlbrooke said, “It’s not ... More >>
Taxpayers Fund Ridiculous Study Claiming A Weekly Lotto Ticket As Costly As An Amputated Leg
Monday, 17 February 2020, 11:53 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The Taxpayers’ Union is calling on the Ministry of Health to demand back the $319,000 of taxpayers spent on a flawed study suggesting a weekly lotto ticket is as harmful as an amputated leg and that occasional gambling is comparable to having a heart ... More >>
Dispute Over Urban Development Bill Caused By Twyford’s Failure On RMA
Monday, 17 February 2020, 10:45 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
“The Government’s current dispute with councils regarding the Urban Development Bill is the result of Phil Twyford’s failure to cut red tape on a broader basis,” says New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union spokesman Louis Houlbrooke. “In Opposition, ... More >>
