Funding

Who pays for this

A site that audits public spending should be the easiest site to audit. Costs, funders and the rules, stated before anyone asks.

Who pays for this

A site that audits public spending has one asset, which is that its own funding can be checked. So this page exists from the first day rather than from the first accusation.

Running cost

NZ$339.25 in total — the domain registration, paid once for ten years to October 2036. That is NZ$33.93 a year. Hosting costs nothing: the site is static files on a free tier, with no server, no database and no build step.

Funded by

The author, personally, in full.

Donations

None received, and none currently invited. If that changes, the platform will be named here the same day, along with the threshold above which a contributor is named.

Advertising

None, and none accepted.

Paid content

None. No entry is sponsored and no entry can be bought or removed.

Political affiliation

None. State plainly here if that ever stops being true.

Two things this page must keep saying

Donations here are not tax-deductible. Deductibility requires donee status from Inland Revenue, which requires being a registered charitable entity, and a site whose purpose is commentary on public policy is unlikely to qualify. Nothing on this page should be read as offering a deductible receipt.

Nobody who funds this site sees an entry before it is published, and no contribution of any size changes what an entry says. The correction process on the corrections page is the only route to changing a figure, and it runs on documents.