Taxpayer Update: Politicians kill jobs | MP’s office rort | Goodie bags
Source: Taxpayers Union
New paper reveals how ‘job creation’ projects destroy jobsToo often, our politicians fall into the trap of thinking they can create jobs...
Kāpiti council must not fall into $4.6 million Provincial Growth Fund trap
Source: Taxpayers Union
19 FEBRUARY 2021FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEThe New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union is warning Kāpiti Coast District Council against falling into the trap of spending millions on a new...
Rotorua ratepayers may finally see the eyesore they paid for
Source: Taxpayers Union
10 SEPTEMBER 2020FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEThe New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union is applauding news that Rotorua’s infamous Hemo Gorge sculpture might – might – be installed in the next fortnight....
Op-ed: Ratepayers deserve the right to fire their representatives
Source: Taxpayers Union
31 AUGUST 2020FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEThis op-ed is written by Taxpayers’ Union Co-Founder Jordan Williams. Future op-eds may be sent to a limited...
Taxpayers’ Union launches major direct mail campaign against Green Party’s proposed asset tax
Source: Taxpayers Union
The New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union is today launching the Campaign for Affordable Home Ownership to fight against the Green Party’s proposal to...
Making up facts in maiden speech to suit a prejudiced narrative is a bad...
Source: Taxpayers Union
8 DECEMBER 2020FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEIn his maiden speech in Parliament today, newly-elected Green Party list MP Ricardo Menéndez March criticised “the Winston...
AAP needs to fact check itself
Source: Taxpayers Union
16 OCTOBER 2020FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEThe following is an op-ed by Taxpayers’ Union Analyst Neil Miller. It is free for publication and can be...
MEDIA RELEASE: Obviously we want to criminalise parents – Bill advocate
Source: Family First
Media Release 7 August 2021Family First NZ says that despite claims of some politicians in Parliament on Thursday, the proposed ‘conversion therapy’...
Collapse in tobacco tax revenue welcomed
Source: Taxpayers Union
4 MARCH 2021FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEResponding to Crown revenue figures showing a 47.8 percent drop in revenue from tobacco duty compared to the previous year, New Zealand...
FACILITATING CHILD-LED RESEARCH STUDIES IN MALI, NIGER AND BURKINA FASO
Source: Save The Children
1. Introduction
The protection of children in conflict – and with it the realisation of the promises made in the declarations, conventions...
Petition launched for Trevor Mallard to pay back taxpayers for his legal bill
Source: Taxpayers Union
11 DECEMBER 2020FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEA written Parliamentary question has confirmed the Taxpayers’ Union’s understanding that the Speaker paid a six-figure settlement to a...
Period poverty leads to rangatahi missing school
Source: Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG)
20 February 2020
Child Poverty Action Group welcomes Youth19 survey research results, and says the Government needs to do more...
