Taxpayers’ Union welcomes damning report on Provincial Growth Fund – confirms pork barrelling, conflicts,...
Source: Taxpayers Union
4 AUGUST 2020FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEThe New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union is welcoming a damning report from the Auditor-General which identifies the Provincial Growth Fund’s...
Councils break the law and fail ratepayers
Source: Taxpayers Union
3 AUGUST 2020FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEThe New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union is condemning Kaikoura District Council and Tararua District Council for failing to identify earthquake-prone buildings, as required...
Exposed: The shocking $6.2m bill to rebrand fire services
Source: Taxpayers Union
25 FEBRUARY 2019FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEThe $6,254,064 cost of rebranding New Zealand’s fire services is a shocking indictment on the merger of rural and...
Government hugs beneficiaries, kicks taxpayers
Source: Taxpayers Union
25 FEBRUARY 2019FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEThe indexation of benefits to wages means that taxpayers are treated less fairly than ever, says the New Zealand...
RNZ Concert protestors have to be joking
Source: Taxpayers Union
24 FEBRUARY 2019FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASERNZ Concert supporters who are protesting for the station to be “better funded” have to be joking, says the...
Vaping crackdown bill needs improvement
Source: Taxpayers Union
23 FEBRUARY 2019FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEDetails of the Government’s newly-announced vaping crackdown may keep New Zealanders smoking and paying exorbitant excise taxes, says...
Adrian Orr short staffed? Tell him he’s dreaming
Source: Taxpayers Union
20 FEBRUARY 2019FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEThe Taxpayers’ Union is calling on MPs to reject Adrian Orr’s crocodile tears and claims he needs a...
Enough is enough – taxpayers aren’t stumping up, build the houses already
Source: Taxpayers Union
Enough is enough – taxpayers aren’t stumping up, build the houses already19 FEBRUARY 2019FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEThe Taxpayers’ Union says Fletcher Building needs to get on...
Taxpayer-funded homeopathy courses are an embarrassment
Source: Taxpayers Union
18 FEBRUARY 2019FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEThe New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union is perplexed at the prospect of the continued funding of homeopathy courses by the...
Why are taxpayers paying to design an electric ferry?
Source: Taxpayers Union
18 FEBRUARY 2019FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE“Callaghan Innovation’s $440,000 grant for an electric ferry design is pure corporate welfare,” says New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union spokesman...
PR: Maori mythology, and Governor temper tantrums, have no place at the Reserve Bank of...
Source: Taxpayers Union
Maori mythology, and Governor temper tantrums, have no place at the Reserve Bank of New Zealand17 FEBRUARY 2019FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEThe extraordinary events reported by...
Bridges’s economic ambitions underwhelming
Source: Taxpayers Union
17 FEBRUARY 2019FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEIt’s not worth putting much credence in Simon Bridges’s complaints about the current Government’s piling on hikes in petrol...
