Source: MIL-OSI SubmissionsSource: John Minto
Below is the final report of the Alternative Aotearoa Seminar held in Wellington on 25 July 2020
It is rich in policy proposals to avoid the country going back to “business as usual” and bringing all our pre-Covid problems with us.
The report has been sent to...
Source: Media Outreach
Measures under the Transform for Growth efficiency program defined and initiated – annual cost savings of around €100 million expected from 2022Group guidance for 2020 remains under review; medium-term targets confirmedRevenue target for China in 2022 raised to €800 million DEUTZ Group: overview of key figures
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Source: Media Outreach
HONG KONG, CHINA – Media OutReach – 11 August 2020 – Hong Kong is one of the latest tax jurisdictions to codify its own transfer pricing law, with 2020 being the first year for some Hong Kong corporations to prepare transfer pricing documentation.
Renowned for being one of the lowest...
Source: MIL-OSI SubmissionsSource: Chris Leitch, Leader of Social Credit Party
Yesterday’s announcement by the Reserve Bank that it will increase its money creation by an extra $40 billion dollars up to $100 billion over the next two years to buy government IOU’s off banks and rich investors sets an all-time...
Source: Taxpayers Union
12 AUGUST 2020FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEResponding to the Reserve Bank of New Zealand’s decision to expand its Large Scale Asset Purchase programme from $60 billion to $100 billion, New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union Economic Advisor Karan Menon says:“The Reserve Bank has just announced a $40 billion expansion of its money-printing programme. In other...
Source: Taxpayers Union
12 AUGUST 2020FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEThe New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union is urging the Prime Minister to recommend that the Governor-General delay the dissolution of Parliament. Taxpayers’ Union spokesperson Islay Aitchison says, “Given the considerable uncertainty regarding New Zealand’s public health situation, and the actions that may need to be taken as a result, it...
Source: Taxpayers Union
11 AUGUST 2020FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEThe New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union is welcoming National Party Leader Judith Collins’s commitment to scrapping race-based healthcare. In an interview on Monday, Ms Collins said:
We will not let DHBs limit or allocate health treatment based on race, which is what we’ve seen Labour allow some DHBs to do. That is...
Source: Taxpayers Union
11 AUGUST 2020FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEThe New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union is calling on the Government to follow advice from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and temporarily cut Goods and Services Tax (GST).Taxpayers’ Union Economic Advisor Karan Menon says, “Last year, the IMF warned that with interest rates nearing zero, any shock to the economy would...
Source: Taxpayers Union
10 AUGUST 2020FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEThe New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union is slamming the claim by Labour Party finance spokesman Grant Robertson that the National Party’s policy to index tax brackets to inflation is a “tax cut”. Taxpayers’ Union Executive Director Jordan Williams says, “It’s dishonest to frame indexation – adjusting income tax thresholds to...
Source: Taxpayers Union
10 AUGUST 2020FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEA new briefing paper released by the New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union makes the case for a temporary cut in the rate of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) from 15 percent to 10 percent, mimicking what the United Kingdom Government did with VAT...
Source: Taxpayers Union
Damning report on Provincial Growth Fund confirms pork barrelling, conflicts, and worse
A damning new report from the Auditor-General has confirmed what your humble Taxpayers’ Union has been saying about the Provincial Growth Fund all along. He found failing processes with regards to the approval of grants, managing conflicts of...
Source: Taxpayers Union
IntroductionThe Green Party of Aotearoa (they do not use the term New Zealand) has launched a 52-page manifesto. We at the New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union read the modestly titled “Think Ahead. Act Now. Our Green vision for Aotearoa” so you do not have to.Crunching the numbers did...