BusinessNZ strongly backs Going for Growth, the agenda championing economic and business growth for greater prosperity. Our analysis of policies reported on below indicates the potential for success from changing resource management NPS settings, immigration regulations, overseas investment, and energy policies. Education reform announced this week, aimed at improving school...
BusinessNZ’s contribution to the policy process is highly evident this month, with analysis and recommendations on a broad range of current issues including achieving better regulation, vocational education that works for business, clarity around platform work, and protection of property rights. Business concerns over waste management and emissions trading settings...
Yesterday’s Budget credibly addressed NZ’s need for tight fiscal management, productivity and empowerment of business. BusinessNZ agrees with the Budget’s growth-oriented approach – our latest PMI and PSI surveys clearly demonstrate NZ’s need for growth. BusinessNZ’s recent advocacy has also focused on options for growth that are included in proposed...
In today’s AdvocacyUpdate ExportNZ outlines advice to exporters facing tariff uncertainty. BusinessNZ recommends changes at ACC, and also examines moves to simplify rules for health & safety and onboarding new employees: the changes follow our advocacy and are good news for business. Advancing improved resource and consenting law continues –...
Advocacy by BusinessNZ is helping boost the economy. Planned changes to procurement rules will be fairer to Kiwi firms and will grow the domestic economy, the outcome of outstanding advocacy by BusinessNZ’s Catherine Beard. Changes to investment tax rules for new migrants are also good news and follow BusinessNZ’s strong...
BusinessNZ’s advocacy is contributing to important changes that are currently happening in the business environment – better consenting rules, proposed changes to competition law, a fix for poor regulation, new structures for work-based training, and a review of what went wrong for business during Covid. Our latest advocacy is highlighted...
2024 is drawing to a close and BusinessNZ’s advocacy is bearing fruit. We’ve worked in support of optimal settings for financial growth, consensus on infrastructure, better overseas investment policies, less red tape, careful management of ACC, improved employment relations regulation and many other issues important to business. We bring you...
There is much to celebrate in NZ’s environment for business. Work has begun on a Regulatory Standards Bill to improve the quality of regulation on the business sector – something our members have been seeking for a long time. And the recent agreement across political parties on infrastructure provision is...
Ongoing challenges to NZ businesses – especially small businesses – are highlighted in recent Reserve Bank and Treasury updates. Meanwhile, moves to reduce red tape, update health & safety rules, and get better payment times from government agencies will be applauded by small businesses. From the policy desk we include...
I’m delighted to see the Government taking note of BusinessNZ’s advocacy on overseas investment with its decision this week to start building a more welcoming environment for investors. Today’s AdvocacyUpdate considers ACC’s $7 billion deficit which will impact all business levy-payers; and endorses anti-money laundering rules being made easier for...
