The Taxpayers’ Union manifesto

The Taxpayers’ Union has published their 2026 manifesto. Some extracts:

• Rule out new taxes, including wealth, death and new capital gains taxes.
• Automatically index income tax thresholds to inflation.
• Introduce full expensing for business investment.
• Keep GST broad and simple. 
• End corporate welfare.
• Extend the Official Information Act to Parliament.
• Proactively publish significant financial information.
• Give ministers greater responsibility for the departments they oversee.
• Introduce an immediate inflation-linked cap on rates, fees and levies.
• Give elected councillors proper rights to council information.
• Reserve voting rights for elected members and introduce recall referendums. 
• Restore stronger property rights in resource management law.
• Remove regulatory barriers that protect incumbent businesses.
• Force agencies to quantify the cost of major new regulation.
• Introduce sunset clauses so regulations must be periodically justified or expire.