Te Pāti Māori files overdue accounts with missing data

Te Pāti Māori files overdue accounts with missing data
TPM’s president, John Tamihere has not yet responded to questions about the party's accounts. (Image: NZME)
Denise McNabb
Te Pāti Māori has filed its annual accounts for the year to December 2023 with the Electoral Commission nearly six months late, but they are incomplete and have yet to be signed by members of the party’s executive team.Though the commission (EC) did not record on its website when the accounts were filed, the data for the PDF used to produce them show it was created on Dec 16.As well as the accounts being unsigned, the audit report for the accounts listed in an index as being on page 12 is missing.Further, donations reported in the account...

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