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Tax Take and Tax Give
Entitleme is a new website that takes a look at your tax take and what you get back for it. Very rough information for me is shown below. Check it out: http://entitleme.com/ I can’t believe that the...
View ArticleBernard Hickey tells young people to get out of NZ.
I have been planning to blog on this all week but have not had the time… Simply read this: http://blogs.nzherald.co.nz/blog/show-me-money/2009/6/23/dear-generations-x-and-y-leave-asap/?c_id=3 Or if...
View ArticleDo your own own bloody tax return
Okay, this is one of those rants that I have been planning for a while but have only now decided to piece it all together and type it out. Firstly, check out this nonsense that appeared in the Sunday...
View ArticleHickey wails against working for families
http://www.interest.co.nz/ratesblog/index.php/2009/07/17/economic-weather-report-dependency-ratio-worsens-in-new-zealand/ This is an interesting video becuase the stats for beneficiaries include...
View ArticleWill National have the guts to move NZ to a flat tax system?
The Herald reports that Treasury is considering a flat tax rate to close the income gap between Australia and New Zealand...
View ArticleNational confirm they have no backbone
As fast as I ask will National have the guts to move to a flat tax system they rule it out. http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/2958390/No-flat-tax-PM The Government will not introduce a flat...
View ArticleHickey calls yet again for radical change to the financial system. But is...
Bernard Hickey has a column in the herald this morning calling for changes to New Zealand’s financial system. (http://blogs.nzherald.co.nz/blog/show-me-money/2009/11/1/steps-ease-squeeze/?c_id=3) This...
View ArticleThe simplist and most simple tax system
From David Farrar at Kiwiblog: The best system would be that no one pays any tax until they are earning what one regards as the minimum amount needed for a family of their size. Churning money from tax...
View ArticleNZ Budget – Income Tax Cuts offset by GST Rise – Nothing that radical
Apparently the NZ Budget announced today is the biggest change to the tax system in 25 years. It doesn’t seem like much of a change more just adjusting the dials of an old and broken system. The key...
View ArticleThere is something wrong with an economic system that tolerates beggars
Today marks four months since I moved to Sydney. To date Sydney has been awesome, I do have a few moans about it, mainly around its sheer size, my lack of a car, and unfriendliness of people, however...
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