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So IRD are "giving" information about taxpayers to third parties?
Are they serious?
Disgusting.
Makes you wonder if the conspiracy theorists are right about not trusting the government.
No wonder we get so many scam emails purportedly from IRD. God knows what ripoff artists have your details.
I bet they didn't give it away for free.
Heads should roll.
Link to the article
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/527419/inland-revenue-giving-thousands-of-taxpayers-details-to-social-media-platforms-for-ad-campaigns
Really ???
Yes, it really is a link to the article….
Surely this cannot be legal? Especially given that you cannot opt out? I find it more and more frustrating that govts and govt departments seem to think they can just do whatever they like as long as they don't tell us
The article says the data undergoes 'hashing' to remove individual identifiers on being uploaded. However, it says that hashing is an inadequate process, according to the US and EU.
Hashing should mean that you can't go from a hash identifier to any user information which constructed that. The privacy risk is around a person with the details constructing a hash being able to find the category (e.g loan status, tax status) of that user.
The concept, that the wealthy would not mind paying more tax – if they were happy as to how government used, it has been raised.
A deal… 24/36 OECD nations have a CGT and an estate/inheritance tax (we had an estate tax till 1993 and a gift duty till 2013).
https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350407749/billionaire-mainfreight-co-founder-bruce-plested-backs-wealth-tax-catch
That should be the headline
Totally and they can STFU on where government spends until they at least contribute the average.
10% effective tax is not uncommon amongst landlords and tradies who can play shell games with companies
Uh, Oh!
I once watche a documentary on TV, (years ago, before the internet). It was about the survivability of natural and man made disasters. It used several case studies, the one I remember was the North Sea ferry disaster.
From Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia:
The documentary recounted, a young man pulled alive from the freezing waters of the North Sea after several hours of being imersed in water so cold, that theoretically he should not have been able to survive, with a body tempeature rarely seen in a living person. But survive he did, and after being warmed up and checked out made a full recovery..
Disaster, after disaster, this pattern was repeated. Earthquake, Tsunami, Floods, Fires Plane crash, the most likely people to survive any disaster, were young men between the age of 18 and 35, women, children, older men, had far lower survival rates.
Extrapolate this occurance to Gaza, population 2 million, and what do you get?
Tens of thousands of young men between the age of 18, and 35, who have lost their girlfriends, their wives, their children, their parents. their homes, everyone they have known and loved. The more civilians Israel kills, of the survivors, proportionally, more young men of fighting age will be left behind, than any other group.
If this trend proves true for Gaza, it may explain why Hamas is getting its second wind.
And why this war will not end soon.