Papers & Briefings

Tory Relf 17/09/2026

Taxpayer Manifesto 2026

Tory Relf 07/09/2026

NEW REPORT: Inflation tax costs median Kiwi $480.14 a year

NZTU Media 06/09/2026

Going for Growth: Full Expensing of Capital Expenditure

NZTU Media 27/07/2026

NEW REPORT: Councils sitting on $1.12 billion art collection

Tory Relf 23/07/2026

Tax Inequality: Who really pays their fair share?

Tory Relf 12/06/2026

The Ratepayers’ Guide to Amalgamation

Tory Relf 10/06/2026

Save the Family Farm: How a Labour coalition would end Family Farming

Tory Relf 10/06/2026

NEW REPORT: Labour Coalition would put family farms in the firing line

NZTU Media 27/05/2026

NEW REPORT: Wellbeing Budget 2026 - The $13.5 Billion Lost Surplus

Tory Relf 20/05/2026

Back to Black: Taxpayers’ Union releases plan to restore New Zealand’s public finances

Tory Relf 04/05/2026

How the Greens' Trust Tax Would Hit Your Home and Your KiwiSaver

NZTU Media 22/04/2026

The Wealth Tax Fantasy

NZTU Media 30/03/2026

NEW PAPER: Fiscal Reality Check: The Reckoning in Numbers

Tory Relf 23/03/2026

NEW REPORT: Green with Envy: Wealth, Death, and Trust Taxes Examined

NZTU Media 06/03/2026

NEW REPORT: The Myth of Rising Income Inequality

NZTU Media 02/03/2026

NEW REPORT: 103 Ways To Save Money In Local Government

NZTU Media 02/03/2026

NEW REPORT: 103 Ways To Save Money In Local Government

Tory Relf 07/01/2026

Robbing Peter to Pay Paul’s Doctor: Why Indexing Tax Thresholds Makes More Sense

NZTU Media 31/10/2025

Why Labour's capital gains tax fails the fairness test

NZTU Media 10/07/2025

Building Better Councils

NZTU Media 19/05/2025

A Pathway to Surplus: The blueprint for Government to cut the spending deficit

NZTU Media 10/03/2025

Going for Growth: Taxpayers’ Union urges Government to adopt Full Capital Expensing in new briefing paper

NZTU Media 27/05/2024

Taxpayers’ Union launches briefing paper calling for $49 a week tax relief

Ray Deacon 08/04/2024

New Report: Fire and Emergency levy increase unjustified, performance review needed

NZTU Media 12/10/2023

New report reveals how much of your lifetime earnings is taken away in tax

NZTU Media 05/10/2023

New Taxpayers’ Union report shows the public sector is living far beyond its means

NZTU Media 04/10/2023

NEW REPORT: The Pitfalls of a Tax-Free Threshold for Income Tax

NZTU Media 22/09/2023

NEW REPORT: Spoilt Policy: Why we must keep GST simple and free of food carve-outs

NZTU Media 21/07/2023

NEW REPORT: A wealth tax taxes savings, innovation and entrepreneurial growth

NZTU Media 22/03/2023

NEW REPORT: City Rail Link project throws good money after bad

Louis Houlbrooke 10/09/2021

New paper highlights how vaping brings New Zealand closer to Smokefree 2025

New Zealand Taxpayers' Union 02/09/2020

Briefing paper: The jobs cost of taxpayer-funded projects

New Zealand Taxpayers' Union 21/08/2020

Proposal paper: A recall option for local government

New Zealand Taxpayers' Union 14/08/2020

Briefing paper: Cut GST for COVID-19 economic stimulus

New Zealand Taxpayers' Union 05/02/2020

Report: Reformed fire service fails to deliver promised savings

New Zealand Taxpayers' Union 30/07/2019

Report: Productivity in the Health Sector: Issues and Pressures

New Zealand Taxpayers' Union 11/04/2019

New report: Two-thirds of CGT revenue will come from taxing ‘paper gains’

New Zealand Taxpayers' Union 23/01/2019

New Report: Five Rules for a Fair Capital Gains Tax

New Zealand Taxpayers' Union 28/07/2018

Report: 102 Ways to Save Money in Local Government

New Zealand Taxpayers' Union 20/06/2018

New report: Public sector wage data undermines public sector union claims

New Zealand Taxpayers' Union 31/12/2017

Up in Smoke: The social cost of tobacco excise

Jordan Williams 11/10/2017

Ratepayers' Report methodology

New Zealand Taxpayers' Union 12/06/2017

Lifetime Tax (post budget update)

New Zealand Taxpayers' Union 22/05/2017

Total Lifetime Tax

New Zealand Taxpayers' Union 02/07/2016

New report - Welfare Bums

New Zealand Taxpayers' Union 01/01/2016

Tobacco tax hike: It’s all about the money

New Zealand Taxpayers' Union 09/07/2015

New report on why a sugar tax won't curb obesity

New Zealand Taxpayers' Union 15/04/2015

Taxpayers' Union launch 'Taniwha Tax' briefing paper

New Zealand Taxpayers' Union 12/02/2014

Sky High: Briefing paper on passport affordablity