The Daily Blog Open Mic – 19th September 2024
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
The Editor doesn’t moderate this blog, 3 volunteers do, they are very lenient to provide you a free speech space but if it’s just deranged abuse or putting words in bloggers mouths to have a pointless argument, we don’t bother publishing.
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https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/528426/the-warehouse-facing-charges-over-roo-crew-take-apart-vehicle
This is a toy. While it is important that the likelihood of tiny tots swallowing and choking on small parts is of concern, the fact that it is turned into a major story on RadioNZ is interesting. I think they did a chocolate advert-newspiel the other day too. The face of Kiwi publications?
It seems to me that here is a campaign against The Warehouse with a willingness to deny their worth and turn molehills into mountains. There aren’t any real moles in NZ/AO and I feel that overseas interests are infiltrating and would like to wipe out this plucky Kiwi business which has mighty Australian K Mart and others weighed against it.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-depth/528379/wealthy-people-pay-lower-tax-in-nz-than-in-similar-states-study-shows
In Depth RICH: The meaning of wealth in Aotearoa
Wealthy people pay lower tax in NZ than in similar states, study shows
7:02 am today
@AnushaBradley anusha.bradley@rnz.co.nz
Well-off New Zealanders are paying less tax than their peers in nine similar OECD nations, new research shows.
New Zealand had the lowest income tax rate, did not systematically tax capital gains, and did not have any other types of wealth taxes, the Victoria University study commissioned by Tax Justice Aotearoa found.
The group’s chair Glenn Barclay said the analysis countered claims made in RNZ’s series on wealth – RICH – that the wealthy would take their money offshore if capital gains were taxed in Aotearoa.
Glenn Barclay from Tax Justice Aotearoa gives evidence to the Finance and Expenditure Committee.
The study looked at how much tax someone earning five times the average New Zealand wage – around $330,000 – would pay in nine comparable nations. The countries chosen included English-speaking nations with similar political systems including Australia, Canada, the US, the United Kingdom, and five European countries.
Using 2023 OECD data it found someone on a $330,000 income that was wholly taxed as a conventional salary, would pay income tax of $108,000, or 33 percent. This was the lowest income tax rate of all the comparable nations, which had rates ranging from 37 percent to 55 percent, said Victoria University senior research associate Max Rashbrooke, who carried out the analysis.
(Where does 15% GST come in when looking at personal tax rates and also what is actually paid in total?)
Check it out!
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/on-the-inside/527692/labour-is-talking-about-a-wealth-tax-again-what-are-its-options-and-what-might-work
https://thestandard.org.nz/lester-levy-320000-part-time-health-nz-commissioner-says-its-not-for-me-to-fix-everything/
There are a number of ppl in Snr Public Service roles that should NEVER be allowed to work in the PS/CS again.
Both Central and Local.
Let’s have some proper PS reform.
Not just a bit of name changing and window dressing like the last effort.
(ps peons, if they haven’t already been made redumdant by their snr mgmnt, are being shat on.
Labour, Greens, TPM, OP, keep a watch!