With apologies to Max Ehrmann, who wrote the original text in Desiderata in 1927, “whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the communist plan for New Zealand is unfolding as it should”. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the failure of law and order and the political perversion of the police, […]
If Jimmy Shaw suddenly became leader of National there would be an outcry from the party’s supporters. The man in the street supporter that is. The hard core of the party, the same people who have let it drift steadily left for forty years, would probably be flat out on Kiwiblog and other social media […]
If you’re a believer in reason, you would no doubt be left speechless by the torrent of nonsense that is the accepted public discourse today. The term “speechless” is chosen specifically here. What does one say that can have any impact upon the overwhelming onslaught of Alice in Wonderland style absurdity that is currently being […]
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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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