Labour Party costing’s set a good benchmark for other parties to follow
MIL OSI – Source: Taxpayers Union – Press Release/Statement: Headline: Labour Party costing’s set a good benchmark for other parties to follow Labour Party costing’s set a good benchmark for other parties to follow 20 JULY 2017FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Putting aside the merits of the policies, the Taxpayers’ Union welcomes Labour’s transparency and the detail contained […]
Read More →MEDIA RELEASE: IRD should hold the phone before cutting jobs
MIL OSI – Source: Taxpayers Union – Press Release/Statement: Headline: MEDIA RELEASE: IRD should hold the phone before cutting jobs IRD should hold the phone before cutting jobs 19 JULY 2017FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Inland Revenue’s expected announcement to cut at least 1500 jobs later today is baffling, given news they don’t even have enough staff […]
Read More →MEDIA RELEASE: Poof! There goes Callahan’s excuse for Oracle R & D funding
MIL OSI – Source: Taxpayers Union – Press Release/Statement: Headline: MEDIA RELEASE: Poof! There goes Callahan’s excuse for Oracle R & D funding Poof! There goes Callahan’s excuse for Oracle R & D funding 19 JULY 2017FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Team New Zealand’s proposal for the 36th America’s Cup yachts to be built in home countries undermines […]
Read More →MEDIA RELEASE: NZ’s biggest companies received over $7 million of taxpayer money for power bills
MIL OSI – Source: Taxpayers Union – Press Release/Statement: Headline: MEDIA RELEASE: NZ’s biggest companies received over $7 million of taxpayer money for power bills NZ’s biggest companies received over $7 million of taxpayer money for power bills 18 JULY 2017FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Taxpayers’ Union can reveal that over $7 million of taxpayer money […]
Read More →Turei got $57,096 telling porkies. Porky says ‘pay it back’.
MIL OSI – Source: Taxpayers Union – Press Release/Statement: Headline: Turei got $57,096 telling porkies. Porky says ‘pay it back’. Turei got $57,096 telling porkies. Porky says ‘pay it back’. 17 JULY 2017FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE “The public feedback is clear – Metiria Turei must pay back the money she stole from taxpayers, before she can […]
Read More →Mr Taxman not picking up the phone
MIL OSI – Source: Taxpayers Union – Press Release/Statement: Headline: Mr Taxman not picking up the phone 17 JULY 2017FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Up to 55% of calls from taxpayers are being rejected by the IRD because it does not have enough staff rostered on to answer the phones, according to data supplied to the Taxpayers’ […]
Read More →What’s worse: the Council CEO surreptitiously blocking email or LGNZ giving it the ‘excellence’ seal?
MIL OSI – Source: Taxpayers Union – Press Release/Statement: Headline: What’s worse: the Council CEO surreptitiously blocking email or LGNZ giving it the ‘excellence’ seal? 17 JULY 2017FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The details reported by Radio New Zealand this morning about an audit report alleging Horowhenua District Council CEO, David Clapperton, has been surreptitiously monitoring and blocking emails sent to elected […]
Read More →Green’s Utopia: The fastest way to achieving equality is to make everybody poorer
MIL OSI – Source: Taxpayers Union – Press Release/Statement: Headline: Green’s Utopia: The fastest way to achieving equality is to make everybody poorer 17 JULY 2017FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Taxpayers’ Union says the Green Party’s attempt to increase the welfare state is not only an unnecessary burden on taxpayers but also founded on a misunderstanding […]
Read More →It took Tau Henare 48 hours to pay back the money he was overpaid by WINZ. Will Metiria Turei take as long?
MIL OSI – Source: Taxpayers Union – Press Release/Statement: Headline: It took Tau Henare 48 hours to pay back the money he was overpaid by WINZ. Will Metiria Turei take as long? 17 JULY 2017FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE It’s not good enough for Green Party Co-leader Metiria Turei to weasel word an offer to repay her benefit fraud […]
Read More →Maori Party’s “IwiRail” nothing less than economic sabotage
MIL OSI – Source: Taxpayers Union – Press Release/Statement: Headline: Maori Party’s “IwiRail” nothing less than economic sabotage ‘IwiRail’ nothing less than economic sabotage 12 JULY 2017FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Taxpayers’ Union is staggered at the economic recklessness of the Maori Party’s “IwiRail” announcement, labeling it ‘populist economic sabotage’. Reacting to the policy, Jordan Williams, […]
Read More →Andrew Little does U-turn on fiscal drag tax bracket adjustments
MIL OSI – Source: Taxpayers Union – Press Release/Statement: Headline: Andrew Little does U-turn on fiscal drag tax bracket adjustments Andrew Little does U-turn on fiscal drag tax bracket adjustments 11 July 2017FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Taxpayers’ Union is slamming the Labour Party’s indication that if elected in September it would quash the Budget 2017 […]
Read More →NZ First’s “carpet policy” refreshing step back to 1970s
MIL OSI – Source: Taxpayers Union – Press Release/Statement: Headline: NZ First’s “carpet policy” refreshing step back to 1970s 10 JULY 2017FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Clearly Winston Peters has had a flashback to the 1970s when he was MP for Hunua under Rob Muldoon with this ‘Fortress New Zealand’ proclamation that under his watch no civil servant […]
Read More →New survey shows perceptions of local government at all time low
MIL OSI – Source: Taxpayers Union – Press Release/Statement: Headline: New survey shows perceptions of local government at all time low 3 July 2017FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Despite specific commitments by heads of local government to increase the levels of performance, the 2017 “Local Government Survey” reveals that the public’s opinion of the performance of local […]
Read More →Govt. must not sabotage Team NZ with San Francisco corporate welfare
MIL OSI – Source: Taxpayers Union – Press Release/Statement: Headline: Govt. must not sabotage Team NZ with San Francisco corporate welfare Govt. must not sabotage Team NZ with San Francisco corporate welfare 27 JUNE 2017FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Taxpayers’ Union warmly congratulates Emirates Team New Zealand for their success today in Bermuda and says that […]
Read More →Neoliberalism stopped the rise in inequality
MIL OSI – Source: Taxpayers Union – Press Release/Statement: Headline: Neoliberalism stopped the rise in inequality 26 JUNE 2017FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE “The left-wing hullabaloo is wrong, inequality hasn’t changed in 20 years”, said Jordan Williams, Executive Director of the Taxpayers’ Union, responding to new research findings by the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research. A second major […]
Read More →English puts cart before horse in tax cut offer
MIL OSI – Source: Taxpayers Union – Press Release/Statement: Headline: English puts cart before horse in tax cut offer English puts cart before the horse in tax cut offer 25 JUNE 2017FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE “Tax cuts shouldn’t be contingent on healthy growth and incomes, tax cuts are the pathway to healthy growth and incomes,” said […]
Read More →Careful Mr Peters, you don’t come to this with clean hands
MIL OSI – Source: Taxpayers Union – Press Release/Statement: Headline: Careful Mr Peters, you don’t come to this with clean hands Careful Mr Peters, you don’t come to this with clean hands 21 JUNE 2017FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Taxpayers’ Union says that it’s a bit rich of Winston Peters to criticise the National Party for using […]
Read More →Barclay payment not the first; amounts should be paid back
MIL OSI – Source: Taxpayers Union – Press Release/Statement: Headline: Barclay payment not the first; amounts should be paid back Barclay payment not the first; amounts should be paid back. 20 JUNE 2017FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE In addition to other parties using leaders’ funds to hush former staff, it appears the Todd Barclay episode is not […]
Read More →3,000 New Zealanders back NZTU call for Clinton Foundation funding to cease
MIL OSI – Source: Taxpayers Union – Press Release/Statement: Headline: 3,000 New Zealanders back NZTU call for Clinton Foundation funding to cease 16 JUNE 2017FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE More than three thousand people have now signed a petition backing the Taxpayers’ Union call for the Government to stop NZ Aid’s taxpayer funding of the Clinton Foundation’s […]
Read More →Labour must endorse road toll undertakings of revenue neutrality
MIL OSI – Source: Taxpayers Union – Press Release/Statement: Headline: Labour must endorse road toll undertakings of revenue neutrality LABOUR & GREENS MUST ENDORSE ROAD TOLL UNDERTAKINGS OF REVENUE NEUTRALITY 7 JUNE 2017FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union welcomes the Government’s undertaking that any form of roadway variable pricing will be used to replace existing […]
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