
She demands loyalty, but it was her disloyalty to her former leader that was key in bringing about his downfall. Bridges was stabbed in the back by a pack of liberal leftists in the party who had undermined him for almost the whole two years of his leadership. Judith Collins was one of those leftists, […]

The widespread use of the term “war on drugs’, usually followed by the claim that said war has failed, is in the main a piece of partisan propaganda. Usually used by (so called) Libertarians & other drug use advocates, its not really true, for there is no war on drugs in the West, there never […]

New Zealand’s media is pretty much fully captured by the progressive left. Most political comment especially is delivered from this perspective, and as such political ideas have also infiltrated our science institutions, there exists a coalition between media and science that keeps the NZ public completely in the dark as to alternative views on scientific […]
So who’s been spying on me? That looks just like my desk as I’ve been pulling together the various threads for my personal/company/trust tax returns before taking off for a month; what a nightmare.
The biggest issue is provisional tax which is very hard to get right when your income fluctuates, eg having sold some rental property the depreciation recovered has become a large chunk of extra taxable income. I’ve no quarrel with that per se, it’s just a timing issue after all, the problem is the punitive interest rate if you under-estimate your PT and the pathetic rate paid if you over-estimate (and not always paid at all, I’ve noticed over the years).
A great cartoon for all that!
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