Taxpayer Update: Climate tax | Corruption index | Vaccines
Source: Taxpayers Union
Dear Supporter,Fuel tax hikes are back on the table (and that’s just the beginning!)On Sunday the Climate Change Commission released its long-awaited...
Māori wards: loss of accountability necessitates recall option
Source: Taxpayers Union
1 FEBRUARY 2021FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEStronger accountability tools for local government will be needed if the Government succeeds in entrenching Māori wards, says...
Climate Change Report: Prime Minister must rule out 30c jump in petrol taxes
Source: Taxpayers Union
1 FEBRUARY 2021FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEThe Taxpayers’ Union is calling on Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to stick to her pre-election promise not to hike petrol...
Climate Change Report a ‘pathway to poverty’ if central planning implemented
Source: Taxpayers Union
31 JANUARY 2020FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEThe Taxpayers’ Union says the Climate Change Commission’s economic forecasts appear ridiculously optimistic, and that the approach of central planning,...
Penny Bicknell saga demonstrates why New Zealand needs better anti-corruption laws
Source: Taxpayers Union
30 JANUARY 2020FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEReacting to news that former Provincial Growth Fund Principal Regional Advisor Penny Bicknell has become chief executive of a firm...
More transparency needed for government contracts and payments
Source: Taxpayers Union
29 JANUARY 2020FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASENew Zealand’s high ranking in Transparency International’s corruption perceptions index should not be cause for complacency, says the New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union.New...
Auckland tram: taxpayers deserve the respect of a cost-benefit analysis
Source: Taxpayers Union
27 JANUARY 2020FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE“The Government’s failure to even conduct a standard cost-benefit analysis for the most expensive infrastructure project in New Zealand’s...
Stop pretending the marae spend-up is about jobs
Source: Taxpayers Union
26 JANUARY 2020FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEResponding to the Infrastructure Minister’s claims that a $9 million spend on a marae facility in Southland will...
Taxpayer Update: Creative NZ sends $$ overseas | Payout for overstayer | RNZ propaganda
Source: Taxpayers Union
Dear Supporter,Creative NZ sending your money overseas
This morning we revealed that in just 12 months Creative NZ paid out grants worth $631,266...
Rotorua Mayor ‘flooded’ by single email in support of monument to government waste
Source: Taxpayers Union
22 JANUARY 2020FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEThe Taxpayers’ Union is calling out what could charitably be described as an exaggeration by Rotorua Mayor Steve Chadwick in...
Revealed: Creative NZ sent $631,000 overseas in just 12 months
Source: Taxpayers Union
The New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union can reveal that in just 12 months Creative NZ paid out grants worth $631,266 to recipients in...
Op-ed: Why we won’t stop calling it ‘taxpayer money’
Source: Taxpayers Union
The following is an op-ed written by Taxpayers’ Union Campaigns Manager Louis Houlbrooke. It is free for publication with attribution.Jonathan Barrett, a...
