Ski fields can generate huge amounts of cash, on a good day. RAL's problem is that some seasons they don't have enough good days. They aren't alone with that problem, Mt Hutt has gone tits up as regularly as the Ruapehu fields, for the same reason, and ...
The shareholders and punters would predominately be National voter and / or donors, but they are also baling out Ohakune and other towns around Ruapehu who get a fair bit of cash from punters who use RAL's facilities. Based on what I see around Queenstown ...
self employment and precarious work has ballooned in the 00s which complicates things Fark yes, try claiming earnings compo when you're self employed. Standard tax accounting practices effectively deny you compensation as you're paid on net earnings, you ...
There's partial funding by government for people who don't earn wages or pay levies, so children, retired (and beneficiaries other unwaged I presume) ACC is funded from multiple sources, including business, petrol revenues and wages. Funds from each source...
Any party that looked like they were going to get a CGT, Wealth Tax or Inheritance Tax over the line, by fair or foul means, would have that much money flowing into their party coffers from the Financial Services industry they wouldn't know what to do with...
No, not economic, but around having the flexibility to reduce petroleum use seamlessly to as low as possible. Maintaining Marsden Pt would mean we are locked into usage at the refinery's minimum capacity, then a sudden step to imports or zero. I see it ...
You can also say that persevering with Marsden Pt was just as daft. We would have then been locked in to using the capacity of the refinery for the rest of it's life, and with completely wrong market signals once consumption dropped below refinery capacity...
Sourcing bitumen from a wider market should allow us to get a product that is more suitable to our needs. Marsden Pt was very limited in what crude it could process, and the properties of the crud that comes out the bottom (bitumen) is governed to a large ...
A Central Otago seat even without Oamaru would be winnable for Labour Which is why National hate the idea with a vengeance. A 'grass roots campaign' will have to spring up next review to make it happen. An opportunity for a strong local Labour voice to ...
Same in Whakatipu. Just got to convince Labour or Green to stand credible, consistent and relevant candidates in Southland and Waitaki, and especially the new Central electorate (once it happens), along with policy that's relevant to voters in Central. ...
Technically Customs doesn't deal with biosecurity, that's MPI's job. Customs check for illegal imports and collect taxes and duties on legal imports along with checks and clearance of exports. Two seperate agencies that work together, but with quite ...
Ahem, I got pantsed by some hippy dude in a trolley bus across the lights on a bike that was rather quick for mid 70's Like I was halfway down the bus...
More it's selfish greed, rentier capitalism, cartel behaviour, corrupt deals between MPs and big business, and tax regime rigged against ordinary workers is the only way they know to survive. Having to actually create value and wealth, as opposed to taking...
It all looks rather fragile
Couldn't agree more. The public facing side of the 3 Waters / Affordable Water reform was, to the public an impenetrable shambles. Because the thing was a managerial wet dream all the jargon came through and no one understood what was going on. Then the ...
Councillors don't spend money on water infrastructure because there's less votes in it compared to spending on what people can see, like sports fields and civic ammenities. Throwing more money at Councils through GST or other means just perpetuates this ...
Think it's more the whole heap of stupid kiwis wanted to have water in the hands of elderly white councillors who weren't going to put the rates up, rather than some faceless quasi government / regional organisations who could charge what was required to ...
I think that over the last 200 years of building our state and society there has been considerable assimilation between Māori and Pākehā societies. The reality is that this assimilation has been bi-directional, particuarly in the last 20 years, and now ...
A rather muddle headed hotel manager who's having trouble meeting his KPIs, maybe.. or a business operator who's getting hammered by an opportunistic sector that's able to undercut by socialising their costs and also pushing up the housing costs of his ...
In most cases small 20 or 25mm meters at the individual boundary are the cheapest and easiest option. The lateral is in a known location and already quite shallow (< 0.5m) and there's already a valve there. If the valve was installed in the last 20 years ...
who pay nothing now, but would face a new charge with water metering? They do not pay nothing now. If they live in a town or city they are paying for water now through their rates. There's a lot of averaging that goes into setting rates, especially water,...
Sorry, but I found your linked article a jumble of confused and just downright incorrect thinking. Things like, Council-backed loans could cover the cost of repair with repayments added to the rates bill and attached to the property, not the owner. ...
Jeez.... what is it with New Zealanders and water meters. The things are seen as existential threats by all sides of the political spectrum. Righties see them as an insult to their integrity and self worth, and 'you're going to give it to a Mawries'. ...
You'd also have a national Government with an awful lot of new, inexperienced, and going on recent selection successes, grossly incompetent MPs. Similar, and probably much worse, to the current mess
This defence commitment is not much more than a continuation of our existing / past contribution to policing in the Red Sea / Persian Gulf. We've had personnel involved going back to Gulf War and at times a frigate participating. In 2023 Andrew Little ...
That'll be an interesting negotiation wit the happy clappy faction of National.... Wonder what the happy clappies will ask in return. Curriculum changes?
The 'twice as much" headline was based on a modern small petrol car using around 4 l/100km. With light diesels ISTR that the rate was set to approximate what the 'average' petrol car would pay through the excise. Worked for a larger car, but completely ...
The road user component of petrol excise would have been calculated when an economical car used 8 l/100km. I've got a 10 yo base model Demio that does half that. Very good case for petrol vehicles to move to a milage based road user charge and a carbon ...
There's also the airfreight capacity that comes with international tourism. This is a huge co-dependency in our economy as we found out through covid when tourism, and air freight stopped. More tourism allows more exports, and cheaper imports, both making ...
Yeah, this isn’t a recent occurrence. Underages getting off their faces at New Year in Central has been going on for ever. Strong statements from the plods pretty much every year as well. There will be a very large number of extra police in Central to deal...
It's not so much speculation that drives Wānaka's economy, rather cash burn by people who think they are speculating. All going to come to a sad and messy end for some people with the inevitable recession the current Government is bringing on. Exactly the ...
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