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Whangarei ratepayers charged $91,000 for art junket
Friday, 10 May 2019, 3:33 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union has revealed that the Whangarei Arts Museum Trust spent $91,168 – including business class flights to Dubai – for 11 people to visit Vienna and see a Hundertwasser painting. Taxpayers’ Union researcher Tabitha ... More >>
Tax Freedom Day not until June 1
Thursday, 9 May 2019, 10:28 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The premature celebration of 'Tax Freedom Day' by Baker Tilly Staples Rodway is just festive silliness says the New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union . More >>
Cockies call for Government to rule out fart tax
Wednesday, 8 May 2019, 12:16 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Cockies around NZ will be concerned today’s climate announcement is a warm up for the Government to introduce a fart tax 2.0, says the New Zealand Taxpayers' Union . More >>
Welfare for deadbeat dads is a betrayal of taxpayers
Friday, 3 May 2019, 2:51 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Removing sanctions on beneficiaries for not naming the father of their children is just welfare for deadbeat dads, says the New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union . More >>
New data shows poorest punished by tax
Tuesday, 30 April 2019, 10:32 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Taxpayers’ Union Executive Director, Jordan Williams, says “Stats NZ data shows that the cost of living for beneficiaries grew at six times the average household rate. This was mostly driven by a single factor: tobacco excise hikes. Tobacco excise ... More >>
Council misses mark with ratepayer funding of 'influencer'
Wednesday, 24 April 2019, 9:51 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Responding to the news that Wellington's ratepayers are paying for a social media influencer to corral under-35s into engaging with the City Council , Taxpayers’ Union Spokesman Garrick Wright-McNaughton says: “Public engagement will follow ... More >>
Petrol price increases put pressure on taxpayers
Tuesday, 23 April 2019, 11:36 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
With petrol prices increasing , tax relief would keep costs manageable, says the New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union . More >>
Where’s the taxpayer value in sending Mr Speaker to Africa?
Tuesday, 23 April 2019, 10:55 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
If Speaker of the House Trevor Mallard wanted to see gorillas in Africa he should have paid for the privilege, says the New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union. More >>
Forcing Mike Lee to go to shows flaws in Gov structure
Tuesday, 23 April 2019, 10:46 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Forcing Mike Lee to go to using LGOIMA and Ombudsman shows flaw in NZ’s local government structure More >>
Tax Axed!
Wednesday, 17 April 2019, 2:44 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The Government has listened to the thousands of New Zealanders around the country who told it to Axe this Tax, says the New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union. More >>
The Taxpayers’ Union will fight any unfair CGT
Wednesday, 17 April 2019, 9:08 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The Taxpayers’ Union will fight any capital gains tax announced tomorrow afternoon with all it's got, says Jordan Williams, the lobby group’s Executive Director. “Yesterday we delivered 4,500 messages from our supporters to the Prime Minister ... More >>
Who took down the Tax Justice Billboard?
Tuesday, 16 April 2019, 4:05 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union is investigating the disappearance of pro-capital gains tax Tax Justice Aotearoa’s billboard on the corner of Taranaki and Ghuznee Streets in Wellington. More >>
4,500 messages to ‘Axe this Tax’ to be delivered to Beehive
Monday, 15 April 2019, 10:50 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
This afternoon, the New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union will deliver to the Beehive the first 4,500 submissions made through the Union ’s ‘Axe this Tax’ website . Taxpayers’ Union Executive Director Jordan Williams will be available on Parliament’s ... More >>
2/3rds of CGT revenue will come from taxing ‘paper gains'
Friday, 12 April 2019, 10:09 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Two thirds of the forecast revenue from the Tax Working Group’s proposed capital gains tax is created by the proposal’s failure to adjust for inflation, reveals the New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union in its new report, Inflating the Cost of Tax: ... More >>
Treasury’s well-being card game an embarrassment
Wednesday, 10 April 2019, 11:20 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Treasury’s ‘well-being’ focus is leading it to replace economic rigor with buzzword culture, says the New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union , as top department officials host a ‘social lab’ centered around a ‘Heartwork Wellbeing Card Game’ . More >>
The union-backed pro-CGT campaign is fake grassroots
Monday, 8 April 2019, 9:49 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Responding to the launch of new campaign to promote Michael Cullen’s capital gains tax, New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union Executive Director Jordan Williams says: “This campaign is not a grassroots movement – it’s more like astroturf. The campaign ... More >>
Ken Shirley joins Taxpayers’ Union board of directors
Friday, 5 April 2019, 12:00 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Former Cabinet Minister and Land Transport Forum CEO Ken Shirley has joined the Board of Directors at the New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union . Taxpayers’ Union Chairman Barrie Saunders says, “Ken’s background as a Minister, an MP in two political ... More >>
Does Stars and Stripes pull-out mean taxpayers are saved?
Tuesday, 2 April 2019, 4:54 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Does Stars and Stripes pull-out mean taxpayers are saved from inflated Emirates Team NZ subsidy? More >>
Taxpayers’ Union launch major campaign to beat unfair CGT
Tuesday, 2 April 2019, 9:19 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union today formally launches a major campaign to fight the unfair capital gains tax, proposed by Dr Michael Cullen’s Tax Working Group. The Union is encouraging New Zealanders to go to axethistax.nz and use the email ... More >>
Inland Revenue’s CGT advice is damning
Monday, 1 April 2019, 1:39 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
December 2017 advice from Inland Revenue to the Government on a capital gains tax is damning and should have nipped the idea in the bud, says the New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union . More >>
