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25 Aug 2008
CPAG’s third submission on this Bill (see also Feb and May 2008) urges the Government to ensure the proposed legislation has a positive impact on low-income and vulnerable families and their children, and protects against unnecessary and avoidable consumer hardship and risk
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15 Aug 2008
CPAG makes suggestions for the amendment of the current bill to more effectively limit alcohol-related harm in our communities.
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4 Jul 2008
For reasons of equity Child Poverty Action Group does not support proposals to introduce income splitting as a means of assisting families with the costs of raising children. With the greatest benefits going to those on the highest incomes CPAG believes income splitting's cost and complexity cannot be justified.
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16 May 2008
Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) encourages the Finance and Expenditure committee to consider the impact of this Bill and the associated policies on low income and vulnerable families and their children.
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24 Feb 2008
CPAG presents ways to improve consumer protection in the financial sector - the lack of which must carry a share of the blame for the worsening economic position of children.
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18 Feb 2008
There is now an opportunity to further change the environment in which smoking occurs through banning retail display stands of tobacco. Smoking disproportionately affects the most disadvantaged groups in society.
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4 Feb 2008
CPAG outlines some ways in which tax cuts could actually benefit the poor: There is an urgent need to reform the income tax structure to make it more progressive. Tax reform needs to redistribute the tax burden, rather than reducing the overall tax burden, which is not high by OECD standards.
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15 Nov 2007
Auckland District Council of Social Services consulted with CPAG on the development of this submission supporting the need for and thrust of the Responsible Gambling Bill. The submission recommends a greater community and local government role in decisionmaking and fund distribution.
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15 Nov 2007
CPAG made a submission to this review in support of the introduction of a sinking lid policy on pokie machines, not simply a cap.
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15 Jun 2007
Housing affordability in New Zealand is the lowest it has been since the 1980s. CPAG believes the “ownership society” must be about more than superannuation savings; it must also include the ability of low- and middle-income New Zealanders to put down roots in stable, cohesive neighbourhoods.
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13 Mar 2007
Supply side welfare-to-work policies such as those proposed in this Bill will do nothing to alleviate the poverty of New Zealand’s poorest families. With so many working poor the problem is, and remains, low income. By refusing to address
underlying issues of low abatement thresholds and the high effective marginal tax rates faced by beneficiaries, this Bill will further entrench the divide between deserving and undeserving children, a surprising key feature of the Working for Families package.
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5 Mar 2007
This bill is a major rewrite of the Tax Act and it is of key importance to New Zealand to get it right. This submission concentrates on section M "Tax Credits for Families" while noting that other aspects of the Bill are also of concern to CPAG.
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14 Feb 2007
This is the appendix to the Crown's Reply to CPAG's Second Amended Statement of Claim in our ongoing family assistance discrimination case.
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14 Feb 2007
The Crown has submitted its Statement of Reply to CPAG's Second Amended Statement of Claim, in our ongoing case alleging discrimination against children in family assistance policy on the grounds of parental work status.
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31 Dec 2006
The Office of Human Rights Proceedings has filed this second amended Statement of Claim on CPAG's behalf, with the Human Rights Review Tribunal.
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1 Dec 2006
CPAG argues that adequate consumer protection in the financial sector must help lift the disproportionate tax burden which has fallen on lower-income families in the past two decades.
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13 Oct 2006
This submission follows the government's announcement of a $67 million campaign to fight obesity. We suggest this will amount to little more than a $67 million donation to the advertising industry, and its impact on our burgeoning obesity rates will be minimal. The idea that it will change peoples attitudes and hence their health outcomes is, we believe, misguided, but worse, it avoids the bigger issues that obesity represents.
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4 Oct 2006
CPAG urges the Ministry of Social Development and Housing New Zealand to consider the broader policy context, including income adequacy and the preferential tax treatment of housing investment, as a vital part of future efforts to provide healthy, stable housing for New Zealand's low-income families.
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30 Sep 2006
CPAG lawyers have amended our statement of claim to the Human Rights Review Tribunal, alleging discrimination in the In Work Payment and its predecessor the Child Tax Credit. CPAG is now bringing the case on behalf of people suffering exclusion from the policy provisions.
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8 Sep 2006
CPAG argues in support of a Bill extending the time for which babies may remain with their imprisoned mothers from 6 months to two years under controlled conditions, in line with international norms.
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