Taxpayers' Union to Pursue Public Funding
1 APRIL 2015
The Taxpayers’ Union has announced its intention to pursue taxpayer-funding to support its advocacy of value for money
from every tax dollar. Taxpayers’ UnionExecutive Director, Jordan Williams, says:
“Since its inception in October 2013, the Taxpayers’ Union has relied solely on donations and membership subscriptions
to allow us to expose government waste and ensure taxpayers receive value for money for every tax dollar spent.”
“Over the past eighteen months we have come up against sophisticated taxpayer-funded lobby groups such as ASH, Fish & Game, the Health Promotion Agency, anti-sugar group FIZZ, Generation Zero and even the Council of Trade Unions and
Business NZ. Combating their calls for a high-tax future for New Zealanders has in itself been taxing on our own
finances.”
“It has become clear that what is needed is another taxpayer-funded lobby group to save taxpayers from the groups they
are forced to fund.”
“Today we have lodged an application to receive funding from Treasury to become a taxpayer-funded lobby group to oppose
the other taxpayer-funded lobby groups, who in turn lobby taxpayer-funded bureaucrats, politicians and themselves.”
ENDS