Jian Yang is paid for by taxpayers – he should front up and talk...
Source: Taxpayers Union
29 JUNE 2020FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEThe Taxpayers’ Union is scoffing at Opposition Leader Todd Muller’s claim that his missing in action MP Jian Yang...
Political Parties – Greens want even more taxes – Social Credit
Source: MIL-OSI SubmissionsSource: Chris Leitch, Leader of Social Credit
The Greens’ new poverty action plan released today may have admirable aims but it will introduce...
Wealth tax economic vandalism which would hit job creators and Māori assets
Source: Taxpayers Union
28 JUNE 2020FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEThe Taxpayers’ Union is slamming the Green Party’s proposed wealth tax as bureaucratic economic vandalism that would hammer job creators.Taxpayers’ Union...
Tool launched for Christchurch ratepayers to submit against rate hike
Source: Taxpayers Union
27 JUNE 2020FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEThe New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union has launched a tool for Christchurch ratepayers to submit against Christchurch City Council’s proposed rate hike...
Speaker should pay his own $80,000 legal bill
Source: Taxpayers Union
26 JUNE 2020FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEResponding to news that Speaker Trevor Mallard’s defamation case has so far cost taxpayers $80,000, New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union spokesman Louis Houlbroke says:“The...
Forgotten funds and missing money
Source: New Zealand Government
A law change has been introduced to make it easier for forgotten funds in institutional accounts to be returned more easily...
Marsden Point a blatant attempt at election year corporate welfare
Source: Taxpayers Union
26 JUNE 2020FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEThe Taxpayers’ Union is calling on the Government to rule out subsidising the oil refinery operations at Marsden Point,...
New tax measures announced
Source: Inland Revenue Department –
A Supplementary Order Paper to the Taxation (Annual Rates for 2020–21, Feasibility Expenditure, and Remedial Matters) Bill contains two measures...
Government quietly makes major changes to fees-free policy
Source: Taxpayers Union
25 JUNE 2020FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEThe Government’s underhanded change to measuring the performance of the controversial fees-free scheme is an admission that the policy...
Skills and Training – Regional Skills Leadership Groups a good step forward
Source: MIL-OSI Submissions
Source: First Union
“The establishment of Regional labour market bodies by the Government is a welcome if not long overdue step,” said Dennis Maga,...
[Corrected] $315,000 spent on gambling report is a busted flush
Source: Taxpayers Union
25 JUNE 2020FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEThe New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union is disappointed at the $315,000 (plus GST) of taxpayers’ money wasted on a report into gambling...
$315,000 spent on gambling report is a busted flush
Source: Taxpayers Union
25 JUNE 2020FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEThe New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union is disappointed at the $315,000 (plus GST) of taxpayers’ money wasted on a report into gambling...
