Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: Forgetting what we didn't know, in reply to
Ah, of course. Any volunteers?
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Polity: Is being a tax haven worth it?, in reply to
Seems very legalistic. Have the gag orders begun?
No, just cuts off avenues for legal threats.
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Hard News: Forgetting what we didn't know, in reply to
Oh, I know all the history.
I just think that someone should put him on the spot about his personal decision to make such an odd search selection. I can’t think of anyone else who would make those choices.
Unless they were told to search for such organisations…Key wouldn't have done the searching. It'll be staff.
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And here's last's night's Media Take, on demand.
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Hard News: Forgetting what we didn't know, in reply to
That’s now a story. That a difference of opinion over a definition.
Good try Matthew!
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Hard News: Forgetting what we didn't know, in reply to
(BTW, Russell, if you have access to the back end of the registration system, I’d quite like to use my family name as well as my given name at PAS. But this is hardly an urgent matter: I think all the regulars are very well aware of who I am.)
No problem. I can't do that myself, but I'll ask the cool kids at CactusLab to do it when they have a moment.
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It's also worth noting that the current government also passed the SOP that created the highly fashionable international tax avoidance entity the look-through company, or LTC.
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Hard News: Forgetting what we didn't know, in reply to
Yes, but as Deborah Russell explains it isn’t NZ’s tax base at risk, and there is no evidence of tax evasion (illegal) – only tax avoidance (legal). So it’s not exactly scandalous that IRD let it drop.
But Deborah Russell also says New Zealand is definitely a tax haven, a thing the Prime Minister continues to strongly deny. That's a story right there.
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Hard News: Forgetting what we didn't know, in reply to
But the tax regime for foreign trusts wasn’t invented by the current Government.
True. But the money flowing into such trusts has sharply increased in recent years and under the current government a consequent regulatory review signalled by IRD somehow went missing.
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