Still no sign of Te Pāti Māori audit report

Te Pāti Māori's leadership on the campaign trail in 2023. (Image: NZME)

Wed, 16 Apr 2025

Te Pāti Māori has told the Electoral Commission it has yet to attach an audit report to its 2023 annual accounts because a “delay with the auditing firm continued to be a problem”.That is despite Te Pāti Māori (TPM) having paid the accounting firm BDO $7,950 for doing the audit report, which is listed in the 2023 financial accounts index as being at the end of the report on page 13. There are two blank pages instead.The amounts paid to BDO for the 2023 audit and for completing the 2023 annual donation return are listed in the i...

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