With the exception of corporate welfare (which taxes all businesses more, to divert grants to favoured businesses and industries) the business-friendly initiative which features in the Budget announcements is a single proposal to allow deductibility of capital investment 'viability expenditure'. The Government has announced $372.8 million of new operating funding for ‘Innovative...
Budget 2017: Guide to Possible Tax Changes Steven Joyce has intimated that this Budget will provide tax relief to New Zealanders through an adjustment in tax thresholds. As we go into the Budget lock up, the Taxpayers Union’ have put together some benchmark figures as a guide to judging the size of...
The Public Services Association (PSA) have released a new booklet, “Ten Perspectives on Tax” that intends to fight back against growing public demand for tax cuts. It did not take long – the first page of the first chapter to be precise - before I had to stop and address...
As Steven Joyce prepares to deliver his first budget on Thursday, the Taxpayers’ Union can reveal that the average household pays $1.48 million in tax over a lifetime - equivalent to 15 years of earnings. In a paper published today, the Taxpayers’ Union reveals: Over a lifetime, an average household...
According to the OECD figures, this year tax freedom day is Monday 22 May, representing the 39.1% of the economy that is spent by the government. Today, Monday 22 May, is "Tax Freedom Day" - the first day this year that New Zealanders stop working for the Government and begin...
There is nothing scarier than a government in surplus Pre-budget opinion piece published in the Waikato Times, 18 May 2017 The series of new spending initiatives over the last few weeks are looking more and more like pork barrel election year bribes and suggest that the healthy government books are...
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One of the ways the Taxpayers' Union promote sensible restraint of government expenditure is by exposing and arguing for an end to corporate and union welfare.
We put the government – politicians, officials and taxpayer-funded groups on notice that taxpayer money should treated with care. We work hard to expose waste and extravagance paid for by the taxpayer.
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