The People-Powered Mission

Our Mission: Lower Taxes, Less Waste, More Accountability

Founded by David Farrar and Jordan Williams in 2013, we enjoy the support of nearly 200,000 registered members and supporters, making us the most popular campaign group championing fiscal conservatism and transparency in New Zealand. Approximately one in nineteen adult New Zealanders receive Taxpayers' Union email updates.

We’re here to represent the common interests of all taxpayers and to provide them with a voice in the corridors of power.

Our Vision: A prosperous, low-tax New Zealand with efficient, transparent and democratically accountable government

We work to expose excessive and wasteful government spending. We want more transparency and accountability in how taxpayers’ money is spent and our politicians spending money as if they’d worked as hard as the taxpayers who earned it. We believe that new taxes should only be introduced when there are equal decreases in other taxes.