Written By: - Date published: 12:45 pm, May 5th, 2016 - 7 comments
An editorial in The Herald today keeps the pressure on Key. Meanwhile his “lawyer” can’t be happy, and Key hits peak condescension.
Written By: - Date published: 3:28 pm, May 3rd, 2016 - 18 comments
Key chucks his “lawyer” under a bus – Part 2.
Written By: - Date published: 8:10 am, May 3rd, 2016 - 66 comments
Radio New Zealand has reported that Compass, supplier of our substandard hospital food, appears to be taking steps to minimise the tax it pays locally.
Written By: - Date published: 10:04 am, May 2nd, 2016 - 125 comments
Key has form on lying, you’d hope that his “lawyer” does not.
Written By: - Date published: 7:02 am, May 2nd, 2016 - 36 comments
The weekend saw the pressure stay on National over our tax haven status, and the role Key might have played in protecting it.
Written By: - Date published: 3:35 pm, May 1st, 2016 - 52 comments
Peter Dunne is concerned about the ‘extremely damaging’ tax haven label. Guyon Espiner points out that he used to call it ‘legitimate tax avoidance’.
Written By: - Date published: 4:19 pm, April 29th, 2016 - 29 comments
So Key’s lawyer reckons the PM directly requested that trust industry leaders lobby the Revenue Minister. On the other hand, PM DunnoKeyo reckons he did no such thing. That leaves some really big questions …
Written By: - Date published: 7:19 am, April 29th, 2016 - 348 comments
John Key is facing some problems describing how a Mossack Fonseca company ended up owning a New Zealand farm and how after his lawyer asked the Government not to change the rules surrounding foreign trusts the Government moved to make sure that no rule change would occur.
Written By: - Date published: 7:11 am, April 28th, 2016 - 76 comments
Reaction to Key’s land tax has been luke warm at best, with strong calls for more effective action. Labour is promising “a ‘tidal wave’ of big housing reforms”…
Written By: - Date published: 8:18 am, April 26th, 2016 - 126 comments
John Key is preparing the ground for a reversal on National’s refusal to do anything about Auckland’s housing crisis.
Written By: - Date published: 9:00 am, April 21st, 2016 - 199 comments
John Key, explaining why he had an account with tax avoidance specialists Antipodes Trust Group, said he used the firm because his long-term friend, Ken Whitney, is a principal at the firm and has been his private lawyer for many years. The flaw in that theory is that Whitney is not currently a lawyer.
Written By: - Date published: 7:07 am, April 18th, 2016 - 111 comments
Gareth Morgan estimates that NZ could be missing out on up to 25% of total income tax because the rich aren’t paying their fair share. What could a government do with an extra $7.5bn a year?
Written By: - Date published: 7:38 am, April 16th, 2016 - 78 comments
Post everyone’s tax details publicly. Everyone.
Written By: - Date published: 2:59 pm, April 15th, 2016 - 29 comments
It is clear from John Key’s irresponsible reaction to accusations of NZ being a loosely controlled tax haven, that we are becoming an international target. Contrast that with European reactions, and then have a look at the David Brin’s prophetic reasons for the fictional Helvitica War…
Written By: - Date published: 10:47 am, April 14th, 2016 - 43 comments
An interesting piece in The Guardian looks at the costs of tax evasion, and how (in America) the missing funds could be used to fund a UBI.
Written By: - Date published: 7:50 am, April 13th, 2016 - 334 comments
John Key’s relationship with Antipodes Trust Group Limited will need some explaining.
Written By: - Date published: 4:40 pm, April 12th, 2016 - 66 comments
Well well well.
Written By: - Date published: 12:31 pm, April 12th, 2016 - 77 comments
John Key’s solution to the exposure of his ludicrous claims that New Zealand has full disclosure on foreign trusts nor is tax haven, is to appoint an expert in tax avoidance as the so-called “independent expert” to review the laws. As fallout from the “Panama Papers” has escalated and the prime minister’s claims are seen […]
Written By: - Date published: 11:14 am, April 12th, 2016 - 42 comments
I know this won’t happen, but still…
Written By: - Date published: 8:08 am, April 12th, 2016 - 46 comments
Not our PM, the UK’s David Cameron. Our PM is under pressure to do the same, but refuses. He claims that all his taxes are “beyond reporach”. But he has form (TranzRail shares) on lying about his financial affairs.
Written By: - Date published: 2:30 pm, April 11th, 2016 - 20 comments
While Key is fighting to make sure our country remains a haven for his rich mates, he’s about to hit you and I with yet another tax. I don’t have a problem with taxes, but I do take issue with the hypocrisy.
Written By: - Date published: 6:51 am, April 11th, 2016 - 289 comments
John Key personally directed the 2011 law change that turned NZ into an attractive tax haven.
It’s part of a complicated context involving his failed plan to turn NZ into a “financial hub”.
Written By: - Date published: 7:13 am, April 10th, 2016 - 120 comments
Yesterday The Nation interviewed the Centre for Public Integrity’s Peter Bale about the inevitability of New Zealanders being implicated by the Panama Papers.
Written By: - Date published: 3:18 pm, April 8th, 2016 - 4 comments
Okay. So rumoour has it that John was merely a co-writer.
Written By: - Date published: 8:00 am, April 7th, 2016 - 18 comments
The Panama Papers highlight a significant problem for the countries of the world. The actions of the 1% is robbing countries throughout the world of funds needed to run their countries and underlines that the capitalist system is based on greed. Most leaders see this but not John Key.
Written By: - Date published: 6:31 am, April 7th, 2016 - 122 comments
Key has made it clear that he doesn’t care that NZ is operating as an international tax haven. When The Greens called for action he called them “barking mad”. But last night President Obama called for international action on tax reform. What will Key do now?
Written By: - Date published: 9:13 am, April 5th, 2016 - 42 comments
John Key and National are floundering and trying urgently to work out what lines they should use concerning the release of the Panama Papers.
Written By: - Date published: 8:00 am, April 5th, 2016 - 66 comments
Deborah Russell provides expert analysis and commentary on the treatment of foreign trusts in New Zealand and how there is actually a loophole.
Written By: - Date published: 7:01 am, April 5th, 2016 - 29 comments
The Panama Papers show that NZ operates a tax haven. Key’s denials don’t hold up, particularly in the light of at least two three prior warnings that his government has received.
Written By: - Date published: 9:19 am, April 4th, 2016 - 92 comments
A huge leak of confidential documents which reveals how the rich and powerful use tax havens to hide their wealth suggests that New Zealand plays its part.
Written By: - Date published: 7:44 am, March 20th, 2016 - 39 comments
Amakiwi analyses why foreign corporations are hurting New Zealand’s economy and questions why they should be allowed the estimate their profitability.
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