No, I’m not against paying towards common interests we might have. I don’t have children but I would happily pay towards making sure all children had a save childhood full of learning and curiosity. I would happily pay towards an infrastructure which secures our ability to travel freely, bee it a train system or a […]
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While this post addresses the tax situation in the US I still think this is interesting for New Zealand too. The way that we tax people in the United States is fundamentally broken and should be completely discarded. The U.S. tax code is absolutely riddled with loopholes that allow the super rich to legally avoid […]
Hamilton City Council could charge readers $2 to borrow an adult fiction book and reduce its libraries’ operating hours – including closing on Mondays and Tuesdays – under cash-cutting proposals. The changes to library services, as well as moves to increase fees at the city’s cemeteries and crematoriums, are part of the council’s attempt to […]
If you want to know how much your tax has gone up since National came to power, here is the Inflation calculator for New Zealand. Just to give an example food has gone up 9.2% and that is not including GST
During his election campaign John Key had to come clean about “business” visits he “had” to make to strip clubs while working for Wall street giant Merrill Lynch and he tried to avoid having to tell people he had met secretly with Lord Ashcroft, the man who promised to file his tax returns with the […]
This is now happening in the UK. How long before they think this one up in NZ? Shocking new details of a stealth tax of up to £600 for householders with views of any kind, patios, conservatories and even a nearby bus stop are revealed for the first time today. Documents obtained under the Freedom […]
Social catastrophes are poorly expressed by statistics. A recent study by The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities revealed that 41 states are facing severe budget shortfalls for 2009. Some states are worse off than others, with California ($31.7 billion) and Florida ($5.1 billion) leading the deficit pack. In all, the 41 states are currently […]
Huh, why am I not surprised. WASHINGTON — Two-thirds of U.S. corporations paid no federal income taxes between 1998 and 2005, according to a new report from Congress. The study by the Government Accountability Office, expected to be released Tuesday, said about 68 percent of foreign companies doing business in the U.S. avoided corporate taxes […]
Placing this article does not mean I endorse labour. But I do think that the fiscal conservancy of labor has placed this country relatively better placed to weather the coming storm than other countries like the US and Australia. Thursday, 24 January 2008, 10:14 am Opinion: New Zealand Government Hon Dr Michael Cullen Minister of […]
