The Taxpayers’ Union is demanding Public Service Commissioner Sir Brian Roche front up over Nic Blakeley’s rejected resignation, after widespread speculation that Nic Blakeley offered his resignation knowing that it would not be accepted.The Union has today written to Sir Brian seeking the communications and timeline surrounding Mr Blakeley’s offer...
The Taxpayers’ Union is demanding Public Service Commissioner Sir Brian Roche front up over Nic Blakeley’s rejected resignation, after widespread speculation that Nic Blakeley offered his resignation knowing that it would not be accepted.The Union has today written to Sir Brian seeking the communications and timeline surrounding Mr Blakeley’s offer...
New Taxpayers’ Union analysis shows the average household could save around $391 a year under the Government’s rates cap, more than eleven times the $34 claimed by Local Government New Zealand.Taxpayers’ Union Head of Policy James Ross said:“LGNZ told ratepayers a rates cap would save them just $34 a year....
A rates cap could save your household $390.79 a year on average over the next seven years. Local Government New Zealand says the Government’s rates cap would save households just $34 a year. That figure is wrong. We asked LGNZ to show us how they arrived at it. They wouldn’t,...
New Taxpayers’ Union–Curia polling shows New Zealanders firmly reject extending the Youth Court beyond its current upper age of 17, with 64 percent opposed and just 22 percent in support.Opportunity is campaigning to raise the Youth Court age, but even its own voters are against it. Three-quarters of Opportunity voters...
If integrity, honesty, and accountability are to mean a thing in the public service, MBIE chief executive Nic Blakeley needs to go after he was found to have deliberately misled Parliament, says the Taxpayers’ Union.Taxpayers’ Union Executive Director Jordan Williams said:“Nic Blakeley deliberately misled Parliament. In other words, he's a...
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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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