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Police Minister Stuart Nash has praised Police and gun owners after the first firearms collection event saw a busy turnout at Riccarton Racecourse in Christchurch.
- Hon Stuart Nash
- Police
Seventy-eight new Police constables are heading out to the regions following today’s graduation of a new recruit wing from the Royal New Zealand Police College.
- Hon Stuart Nash
- Police
The need to ensure high levels of public safety is the focus of plans revealed today for the first firearms collections during the buy-back and amnesty.
- Hon Stuart Nash
- Police
The Government is investing in a sea trial of a new bait setting device that could help to eliminate seabird captures during the tuna longline setting process.
- Hon Stuart Nash
- Hon Eugenie Sage
- Conservation
- Fisheries
A new Ministerial Advisory Committee has been appointed to help shape the Government’s response to the conservation and fisheries related proposals in the Sea Change – Tai Timu Tai Pari Hauraki Gulf Marine Spatial Plan.
- Hon Stuart Nash
- Hon Eugenie Sage
- Conservation
- Fisheries
Inland Revenue will gain greater powers to alert savings providers if a KiwiSaver investor is on the wrong tax rate, under new legislation introduced to Parliament.
- Hon Stuart Nash
- Revenue
Reforms to tax rules designed to ensure greater fairness in child support, retail trade, and residential investment have now passed into law.
- Hon Stuart Nash
- Revenue
Community hubs from the Kaitaia RSA to the Oban pavilion on Stewart Island will be used by Police to collect firearms handed in during the buy-back and amnesty.
- Hon Stuart Nash
- Police
Licensed firearms owners will get fair compensation for weapons handed in during the six-month buy-back and amnesty, Finance Minister Grant Robertson and Police Minister Stuart Nash announced today.
- Hon Grant Robertson
- Hon Stuart Nash
- Finance
- Police
Inland Revenue is to gain greater oversight of land transfer information to ensure those buying and selling properties are complying with tax rules on property speculation.
- Hon Stuart Nash
- Revenue
Offshore businesses that supply low-value goods to New Zealand have been granted a two-month extension to get systems in order for a new method to collect GST.
- Hon Stuart Nash
- Revenue
The Government is taking action to expand and strengthen the protection for Māui and Hector’s dolphins with an updated plan to deal with threats to these native marine mammals.
- Hon Stuart Nash
- Hon Eugenie Sage
- Conservation
- Fisheries
Commercial fishing vessels at greatest risk of encountering the rare Māui dolphin will be required to operate with on-board cameras from 1 November, as the next step to strengthen our fisheries management system.
- Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern
- Hon Stuart Nash
- Prime Minister
- Fisheries
A new record for the number of Police officers deployed to the regions in a single year has been created with the graduation today of Recruit Wing 326.
- Hon Stuart Nash
- Police
New Zealand is pushing on with efforts to ensure multinational companies pay their fair share of tax, with the release of proposed options for a digital services tax (DST).
- Hon Grant Robertson
- Hon Stuart Nash
- Finance
- Revenue
Inland Revenue has released an issues paper on how to align an aspect of GST with international best practice and principles.
- Hon Stuart Nash
- Revenue
Improving the safety of all road users is the focus of a new public consultation document on the issue of drug driver testing.
- Hon Stuart Nash
- Hon Julie Anne Genter
- Police
- Transport
Action is underway to enhance the protection of our precious marine biodiversity in the face of the global biodiversity crisis.
- Hon Stuart Nash
- Hon Eugenie Sage
- Conservation
- Fisheries
Police Minister Stuart Nash says calling a cop suddenly got a whole lot easier with the launch of a ground-breaking new service for non-emergency calls.
- Hon Stuart Nash
- Police
Frontline Police numbers have been boosted with today’s deployment of 77 new officers to the regions.
- Hon Stuart Nash
- Police
One of the biggest IT projects ever undertaken in the state sector has successfully cleared its latest hurdle with the transition of more than 19.7 million taxpayer accounts from one Inland Revenue computer system to another.
- Hon Stuart Nash
- Revenue
The first nationwide snapshot of the consumption of restricted drugs indicates the prevalence of methamphetamine use in New Zealand, says Police Minister Stuart Nash.
- Hon Stuart Nash
- Police
Police numbers have been boosted with the graduation of 21 new constables from an innovative training scheme that allows them to stay close to their families.
- Hon Stuart Nash
- Police
The Coalition Government today released its response to the recommendations of the independent Tax Working Group report.
- Hon Grant Robertson
- Hon Stuart Nash
- Finance
- Revenue