Pages tagged “Press Release”

  1. Taxpayers’ Union shivers at thought of more corporate welfare for ski fields

    Posted in NEWS by October 2, 2023

    The Taxpayers’ Union is slamming Cabinet's decision to provide yet another taxpayer-funded handout to Ruapehu Alpine Lifts (RAL), this time to the tune of $7 million. Taxpayers’ Union Head of Campaigns, Callum Purves, said: “We warned earlier in the year that taxpayer-funded bailouts for failing...

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  3. Grant Robertson’s apparent hole doesn’t exist - at least as it relates to Three Waters Alternative

    Posted in NEWS by October 2, 2023

      Grant Robertson’s claim that there is a ‘hole’ in the funding as of a result of scraping Three Waters is nonsense on stilts. Taxpayers’ Union Executive Director, Jordan Williams, says: “Grant Robertson is trying to frame opponents of Three Waters - including the...

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  4. Labour's Grocery Store Subsidies Will Not Reduce New Zealand’s Food Prices

    Posted in NEWS by October 2, 2023

    Responding to the Labour Party’s announcement that they intend to subsidise grocery stores to try and enable competition in New Zealand’s grocery sector, Taxpayers’ Union Policy Adviser, James Ross, said: “There is a lack of competition in New Zealand’s grocery sector, and that does...

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  5. National in Danger of Swapping One Middle-Class Subsidy for Another

    Posted in NEWS by September 30, 2023

    Commenting on the National Party’s re-affirmation of their pledge to scrap the Clean Car Discount, Taxpayers’ Union Policy Adviser, James Ross, said: “Under Labour’s Ute Tax, families, farmers and tradies have been subsidising the lifestyle choices of wealthy urban professionals. Robbing from hardworking people...

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  6. Taxpayers’ Union calls Hipkins' GST bluff – releases the modelling and challenges Hipkins to do the same

    Posted in NEWS by September 28, 2023

    Download the spreadsheet containing our modelling of the cost of Labour's GST policy here. Following recent concerns raised by the Taxpayers’ Union that Labour’s GST-exempt policy would leave a revenue hole of up to $411m because, as Labour have claimed, more people may eat...

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  9. Labour’s Fiscal Plan Doubles Down on More Spending, High Taxes and Runaway Debt

    Posted in NEWS by September 27, 2023

      Responding to the Labour Party’s Fiscal Plan, Taxpayers’ Union Head of Campaigns, Callum Purves, said:“Labour’s current economic plan of overtaxing hard-working New Zealanders just to waste money on middle-managers, consultants and vanity projects clearly isn’t working. With the highest level of Government spending...

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