Smart move by Labour and the Greens to head off inevitable false claims by National, about fiscal responsibility.
https://pro.newsroom.co.nz/articles/...nsibility-pact
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Smart move by Labour and the Greens to head off inevitable false claims by National, about fiscal responsibility.
https://pro.newsroom.co.nz/articles/...nsibility-pact
To save you the trouble of posting a link to this news story eZ, I'll do it for you. I know you can't resist anything mentioning Labour.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/poli...efamation-case
There you go eZ. Specially for you. Little's big mouth might prove rather costly.
They've waited a whole year to bring the action, just so they can run the case in election year. They have enough funds to swamp anything the Labour Party can raise. Is this fair for democracy in NZ? Should big money have the say in an election year? Andrew Little has already apologised unreservedly, and offered to repay their legal costs, costs which he wouldn't have sanctioned in the first place. I'm not sure the people involved would really want all this exposure - for example - do they pay taxes like the rest of us, or do they use a tax haven? These are the sorts of questions I'm thinking about, FP. It's easy to splash money about if you've avoided paying millions somewhere else.
So the case takes a year to come to court - a - very ordinary time for such matters. And Little left his apology 'till the eleventh hour and hopes they will forget the matter and elZ believes they should be fearful of other things coming out of the woodwork? No, I think that someone should shout down the hole to the beloved leader that he should stop digging immediately. He might even consider letting someone else take the leadership.
It's no good threatening me, FP, I worded it carefully. But can you be sure they haven't aggressively structured their tax affairs, like most of the high-rollers seem to? In which case, it's like a two-fingered salute to the majority of taxpayers, who are on PAYE.
Anyway, it's not an open and shut case yet.
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/politi...-niue-contract
You mean they pay low income tax, you've forgotten fuel excise and GST etc, again, haven't you? And you've also forgotten how those without a house or property miss out on the tax-free capital gains that other people get, there are injustices everywhere.
But I wasn't talking about that, I was talking about ongoing high incomes from trading businesses, that would normally attract the highest tax rates. That's where a lot of tax dodging goes on.
Another incredible and slanderous post from EZ where facts don' t matter.
Little made the comments in April last year. Soon thereafter the Hagamans gave him an ultimatum to fully withdraw the comments and apologise. He did neither. In September the Auditor General cleared them and found NOTHING to support Little's claims. But only last week did Little offer his "unreserved apology" but told the media before the Hagamans. Little has handled this very badly and will pay the price (or the Labour Party probably) as he deserves.