Posts by Sacha
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that's a beautiful tribute. thank you
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Legal Beagle: Cameron Slater: computer hacker?, in reply to Vivid,
badgertown
ooh, I like that
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Hard News: Forgetting what we didn't know, in reply to Amanda Wreckonwith,
Could someone ask him why he entered Amnesty International and Red Cross into the search box.
CrosbyTextor would have fed him that line from the last time in was used in the UK in 2013.
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Journalist Michael Field sat next to Kristin Dunne-Powell at the trial.
I’ve no interest in parading Veitch through the muck again. But I think he should stop writing self-serving columns if he can’t truly take responsibility for his actions. If anybody gets to write about what he did, it should be that woman; the one who was shaking the whole time I was beside her.
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Polity: Is being a tax haven worth it?, in reply to Russell Brown,
It's actually puzzling that some of the usual commentators can't get their heads around this.
When you've been splattered by consequence-free corruption for years like the press gallery, guess it must become harder to remember the damage it does beyond the bubble to reputation-based things like trade, global research alliances, etc.
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The core problem is our tax system being out of alignment with 99% of other nations by taxing the local settlor rather than the local trustee, as Deborah Russell wrote recently.
Many other countries tax trusts on the basis of where the trustee lives. If the trustee lives in your country, then you tax the trust, but if the trustee lives overseas, then they don’t tax it.
This means there is a mismatch between New Zealand’s rules for taxing trusts, and other countries’ rules for taxing trusts, and that mismatch creates a loophole that can be exploited.
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Polity: Is being a tax haven worth it?, in reply to Alfie,
while this won't be revealed in the Panama Papers, many wealthy New Zealanders will be using other offshore companies to hide their assets and avoid paying their fair share of local tax.
Unless they've been stashing their loot via Niue or the Cook Islands. Wonder why Key was named in connection with the latter ..
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it pulls in $24 million a year
Better still, from the same IRD estimate, that only results in $3m tax paid here. That's the benefit to public coffers. It's almost like these tax-dodge advisers are using the same tricks to reduce their effective rate to $12.5%. Bold atlasses, all. Ambishus.
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Speaker: Talking past each other:…, in reply to Steve Barnes,
they are my comments
nothing sacred about em. may not notice the times when mine get edited. all part of the package, Steve.
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Speaker: Talking past each other:…, in reply to Steve Barnes,
or, God forbid, editing my comments
welcome to the not-jungle
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