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Taxpayers Union Supports Wairarapa Residents’ Battle For Rates Cap
Thursday, 21 November 2024, 9:39 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Rates across the Anglosphere - whether it is California, England, Victoria or New South Wales - are capped to avoid spiralling rates bills. The fact New Zealand has failed to cap rates is just another example of how successive Governments have fallen ... More >>
NEW POLL: Kiwis Overwhelmingly Support MPs' Expenses Transparency Law Change
Thursday, 21 November 2024, 9:36 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
62% of respondents support the extension of the OIA to cover MPs’ spending, compared to just 13% opposed and 24% were unsure. More >>
COP29 Ends In Promise To Send More Taxpayer Money Overseas
Wednesday, 20 November 2024, 1:32 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
This decision proves how out-of-touch this tax more, spend more, ship more overseas Government is with New Zealand taxpayers. Fix your house first before you go fixing the neighbourhood. More >>
Who Carries The Can For Bailing-out Flooded Napier Homes?
Wednesday, 20 November 2024, 1:03 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Flood defences should be factored into the private cost of a development, if that’s what potential homeowners want to pay for. Denying homebuyers that choice in the long run only ends up denying people the ability to buy homes at all. More >>
Taxpayer-funded Hīkoi Organiser Shows Parliament’s Budget A Political Slush Fund
Wednesday, 20 November 2024, 11:04 am | Taxpayers' Union
Taxpayers’ Union Policy and Public Affairs Manager, James Ross, said “Taxpayers’ money is not a political slush fund. MPs shouldn’t be able to hide how they’re wasting our money, and it’s long-past time their budgets were covered by the OIA.” More >>
If You Want To Use It, You Should Pay It
Tuesday, 19 November 2024, 9:25 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
With 83 percent of DOC’s current budget coming from the taxpayer tab, the department is correct in looking for ways to only charge those using its services. More >>
MFAT Decision To Ship $4 Million To Vanuatu Out-Of-Touch
Monday, 18 November 2024, 11:09 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The comments made by NZ’s delegation to COP 29, Mr. Croad discussing additional ‘pathways’ to forfeit more NZ tax dollars to Vanuatu are both out-of-touch & disrespectful to hardworking taxpayers, says Union Communications Officer, Alex Emes. More >>
Dunedin Council Needs To Stop The Railway Gravy Train
Friday, 15 November 2024, 11:51 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
“Dunedin ratepayers have been smacked with a 17.5% rates hike just this year alone. Ratepayers can’t afford to keep coughing up freight-loads of cash for council vanity projects." More >>
Gross Incompetence Exposed Again Over Thorndon Quay
Thursday, 14 November 2024, 4:38 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
“We could see this planning failure coming, half of Wellington saw this coming, so how didn’t the Council? Do Council staff not talk to each other?” said James Ross, Policy and Public Affairs Manager at the Taxpayers’ Union. More >>
Fair Digital News Bargaining Bill Needs To Meet Its Long-awaited End
Wednesday, 13 November 2024, 10:31 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
“A pause is good, but this Bill needs to be scrapped. National knew before the election bailing out untrusted media firms wouldn’t work, now that needs to be put into practice.” More >>
Christchurch And Wellington Show Auckland How To Buy A Tree
Tuesday, 12 November 2024, 4:05 pm | Taxpayers' Union
Purchased by Christchurch in 2023 for $43,990 and transported for $11,880 – the central city tree shows that bigger doesn’t always mean better. With an installation and take-down price of $8,000, the Super City is again being shown up. More >>
Lindsay McKenzie Has A Tall Ask Ahead
Monday, 11 November 2024, 7:00 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Weakening democracy further by installing Commissioners will only make the issues worse. For Wellington’s sake, a Crown Observer can’t be the first step on this slippery slope. More >>
Mt Ruapehu Future Unknown After Licensing Debacle
Friday, 8 November 2024, 5:51 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
“Our comments eight months ago that the Government was throwing good money after bad, after bad, are truer now than ever” said Communications Officer, Alex Emes. More >>
Has Simon Watts Forgotten Who The Minister Is?
Thursday, 7 November 2024, 11:41 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Does he not realise that he is the Minister in charge of the people who perpetrated this travesty? The people who have been affected need to see action, instead of the Minister’s ‘disappointment’. More >>
More Than 18,400 Kiwis Call On Select Committee To Front Up On MPs’ Expenses
Thursday, 7 November 2024, 11:34 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
“Why should MPs not be held to the same standards as Ministers? If you’re spending taxpayers’ money, the public need to see the receipts” said James Ross, Policy and Public Affairs Manager at the Taxpayers’ Union. More >>
IRD Have Lied To New Zealanders, Heads Must Roll
Wednesday, 6 November 2024, 10:45 am | Taxpayers' Union
“Only yesterday, IRD Commissioner Peter Mersi took a swipe at the Taxpayers’ Union and falsely accused us of ‘misrepresenting facts’. But just 12 hours later, we learn that in fact there as a mistake: IRD’s data leak was far worse than anyone ... More >>
IRD Data Leaking Killed By 9,000-strong Taxpayers’ Union Campaign
Tuesday, 5 November 2024, 3:09 pm | Taxpayers' Union
Commissioner Mersi needs to stop burying his head in the sand, and explain to Kiwis how his department are going to clean up the mess of the data they’ve already leaked: Taxpayers’ Union Policy and Public Affairs Manager, James Ross said. More >>
REVEALED: Ministry For The Environment Blows More Than $2 Million On Internal ‘Events’
Monday, 4 November 2024, 1:49 pm | Taxpayers' Union
“With the money they decided to fork out on events, they could have instead planted more than 2000 hectares of trees. At least that would have been an attempt to do their actual job of helping the environment rather than playing around in workshops, ... More >>
Parliament Blocks Submissions Calling For Transparency On Parliament’s Expenses
Monday, 4 November 2024, 11:20 am | Taxpayers' Union
“Blocking Kiwis from contacting their MPs to demand transparency is nothing short of arrogant self entitlement” says Jordan Williams, a spokesman for the Taxpayers’ Union. More >>
New Campaign: No More Hiding For MPs’ Expenses
Sunday, 3 November 2024, 3:14 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
This campaign is to force MPs to justify why their spending should be a state secret when almost every other area of public spending is subject to public scrutiny. More >>
