I agree with everything in your comment that's rational, but take exception where you o refer to a persons skin colour or bringing in colonialism without considering we are all colonists of this land a good few hundred years ago, i.e. we were all born here...
Thanks, MickyS. I think at the time there was a discussion going on about welfare, and the usual wretched beneficiary bashing rhetoric was in full cry. It thoroughly annoyed me, because I knew that the data showed there was a whole group of people rorting ...
I wrote about exactly this problem for the Dom Post a few years ago. Tax avoidance by well-off a rort - Dom Post 12/April/2013 It's been a known problem for quite some time.
I first ran the numbers on this about six months ago, McGrath, and I was astonished too. It's worth remembering that the data excludes untaxed income, such as capital gains, but even so, I'd have expected the top 10% to be earning over $100,000. Most ...
There is a difference between incomes of all people (IRD returns) and full time pay. “Pay” implies salary and wages or business income. The median full time pay is $51,000 (June 2014). So $80,000 and above will not be the top 10%, it is more like the top ...
Great post, Eva.
That would take a rewrite of the entire way we tax trusts, Andre. It might be something worth looking at in the longer term, but it would be sledgehammer-to-crack-a-nut stuff for this particular problem. One of the problems with going the other way and ...
I find this whole slow decay of critical services really distressing. Numbers on a paper translating into real harm. Thank you (I suppose!) for highlighting yet another way that this current government is walking away from the long standing agreement that ...
I think OliverShaw may have been in that meeting too. However they don't seem to have any links to Mossack Fonseca themselves, which suggests to me that they were there as advisors for the other firms ie. they were providing advice to those firms. Possibly...
I was in contact with one of the authors here earlier today, and he suggested that perhaps I could write a post about the two contentious posts from today and yesterday, and what they said about The Standard. To be honest, I'm not up for it, because I ...
Key and his kronies is destroying democracy in NZ. Watch the televised "debates" Unless it is question time, National is absent on mass. They have been absent from many of the presentations on TPPA as well. TPPA ignores Tax Havens, which by neglect, ...
Me too. I will miss him.
Ian McKelvie is on record about the health and safety legislation. Rangitikei MP Ian McKelvie shows support for unions McKelvie said he would like to think legislation would help, but education would still be needed. "I just think we might not be paying ...
I agree, Enzo. I'm grumpy about the money too, and I'm unhappy about the way it will become a legacy project for the current PM, but I surely don't want to lose this chance to change our flag. I'm looking forward to having a chance to engage more closely ...
Having registered and seeking the Job seeker benefit (after completing their application process from hell), I was not eligible due to partner's income. So no job, no income at all. I wonder what the stats are for the number who are not eligible or who ...
The principles are word-for-word Clause 2 of the Constitution of the Labour Party.
It's not so much the local issue - of course local businesses employ local people - as the attitude towards workers. Higgins seems to have a strong concern for workers, c/f say this sort of approach: Tauranga woman warned over contacting local MP.
I didn't criticise the giving of a knighthood to Sir Patrick Higgins. This sort of thing is the reason why: Higgins to look local to fill roading jobs in Rangitikei.
I'm a bit gobsmacked by that. (DPF's post, or you letting the link through - take your pick.)
who read the act list in the dimpost today. no 1 was a Dr jamie whyte. strictly speaking he is not a doctor at all. he only holds a doctorate of philosophy degree. it is merely an educational qualification. he would not be allowed under electoral law to ...
thanks k. so that entitles them to offer running commentaries based only on their own self referenced preferences?
The worm is turning for keys and his gang of looters and carpetbaggers. its time for them to move out. they have had their turn and been found wanting. good riddance.
@slylands there is every need to be rude. its the only way to get through to people like you. you contribute anything except mumbo jumbo dressed up to look like a proper proposition and trivial questions. I could become really rude if you like.
what I want to know is who owns the worm and how does it work. enlightenment please.
the only place for cactus is the laughing academy and wailboil needs to crawl back under his rock before he gets stepped on like any common slug.
is he getting his chakra re-adjusted to cope with defeat?
is he getting his chakra re-adjusted to cope with defeat?
@lugee the only paranoids around here are the nutbars from the right who are shit scared that the hammer is going to come down on their corrupt government on sep 20. they are getting more and more frantic as the event draws near and whining and whinging ...
colin craig. smacker on the grass. thank you grant smithies.
and it is useful to regard mcvicar as a business man and it is not surprising that he is an advocate for private prisons.
Just listened to mcvicar and I must say the arrogant vocal delivery puts me off for starters but the real issue is that he believes that opinions count for more than facts. he is a man that cannot see causes only outcomes. if he had any real insight then ...
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