Responding to Prime Minister Christopher Luxon’s comments in the Sunday Star Times that New Zealand needs a more mature conversation about asset sales, Taxpayers’ Union spokesman James Ross said:“Hanging on to underperforming assets makes no sense. Why put off conversations we need to start having now?”“Treasury’s latest Investment Statement makes the need for this...
The New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union can reveal through a Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act request that Christchurch City Council has paid $1,359,152.83 (GST exc.) to Mahaanui Kurataiao over the past three financial years under an ongoing funding arrangement with the six Ngãi Tahu Papatipu Rūnanga within the area.Council has refused to...
The Taxpayers’ Union is welcoming the Minister’s commitment to a fair, user-pays approach to transport funding, but warns against the Government’s new “corridor tolling” proposal slipping into a new tax.Taxpayers’ Union spokesman, James Ross, said:“Tolling and congestion charging to manage peak-time pressure and pay for new roads make sense when they’re fair...
Commenting on today’s release of the Review of Retirement Income Policies 2025 by the Retirement Commission, James Ross of the Taxpayers’ Union said: “This is another warning shot across the Government’s bow.”“Continued deficit spending means current policies are shifting more of the costs of supporting pensioners on to future generations. The Retirement...
The New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union says the latest job cuts at Fire and Emergency New Zealand (FENZ) are the inevitable result of years of executive-level overspending affecting the frontline.The Taxpayers’ Union revelealed in September that FENZ employed: A Chief Executive being paid $503,000 7 Deputy Chief Executives, for a total $2.37 million 800...
NEW POLL: Centre-Right lead, Labour largest party, Seymour sees boostGood news for the Coalition as they regain the lead in this month's Taxpayers' Union-Curia Poll, conducted between 02 and 06 November – the first major national poll since Labour's capital gains tax policy announcement.Despite the lead for the coalition, the poll shows Labour...
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The Taxpayers’ Union is encouraging political and government insiders to ‘dob in’ examples of government waste and extravagance. Experience of taxpayer groups overseas suggests that many of the best tips come from within government, particularly bureaucrats frustrated with waste and inefficiency.
Cap rates. Cut waste. Respect ratepayers. Rates are out of control. The average rates bill has increased more than 43 percent since 2022 The UK and Australia have ALREADY INTRODUCED capped rates. It’s time for New Zealand to do the same
The Government have proposed to take billions of dollars' worth of drinking water, waste water, and storm water assets off the hands of local councils and put them under the control of four new unelected, co-governed entities. These reforms must be scrapped.
In 2025, we are releasing a series of briefing papers outlining what the Government needs to do so they can "Go for Growth". We'll be sharing a series of tax policy ideas and savings that will boost our economy. Economic growth isn't the silver bullet to all New Zealand's problems, but it comes close! Only with growth can we afford world class public services, to...
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