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Labour has set up a petition: Demand action on tax dodging Big multinational corporations are exploiting our weak tax laws to shift the profits they make in New Zealand offshore and avoid paying their fair share of tax here. The Tax Justice Network estimate New…
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We're a bit late getting to this, but, check out Break Free 2016: Break Free From Fossil Fuels is a two-week global wave of escalated action to keep coal, oil + gas in the ground. #breakfree2016 May 4-15, 2016: A global wave of mass actions…
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The repercussions of the Mossack Fonseca leaks are starting to make their way through New Zealand Politics. John Key and National were oddly silent for a while. Now they have worked out how to handle matters. The strategy they are using is the dead cat strategy,…
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I guess this was predictable: Land tax off table for now - Housing Minister Figures released yesterday showed only 3 percent of homes were sold to overseas-registered buyers in the six months between October and March. Officials have stressed the new figures do not accurately…
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Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Step up to the mike …
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Daily review is also your post. This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Don’t forget to be kind to each other …
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The New Zealand Council of Trade Unions has just launched its new digital campaigning site - Together And their first campaign has been emailed out by Bertie Ratu - meatworker and a union member. My name’s Bertie Ratu - and if my employer Talley’s had…
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A new book, Silencing Science, by one of New Zealand’s leading scientists, Shaun Hendy, detailing how this government muzzles scientists, is just one chromosome of this government’s anti-science DNA. At the heart of this stance is this government’s refusal, or at best, extreme reluctance, to…
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https://twitter.com/rnz_news/status/730153345910902788 As previously discussed here, bad for the media, bad for democracy.
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Key was disgraceful in parliament yesterday, doing his buffoon act to try and trivialise the tax haven issue, and lashing out with the smears: John Key used "discredited allegations'' to link Greenpeace to foreign trusts Greenpeace boss and former MP Russel Norman says John Key…
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For trying to procure a hack of this blog Cameron Slater was offered the soft option of diversion - community service with no conviction. In a series of tweets last night Nicky Hager's lawyer Felix Geiringer set out 7 reasons Slater didn't qualify. The text…
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Name suppression was lifted at 4 pm on 10 May 2016.
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Preliminary housing data purchase data was released yesterday (keen to try and bump the tax haven revelations from the headlines?). Unfortunately it is too preliminary and confused to be useful. Here's Bernard Hickey's take on RNZ: Foreign buyers 'very under reported' The figures released by…
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Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Step up to the mike …
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Daily review is also your post. This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Don’t forget to be kind to each other …
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Can I point out to the media, Cameron Slater, and for that matter the legal dimwits at the West Auckland site Lauda Finem. I don't own The Standard. I haven't even owned the domain name for more than 6 years. I used to own the domain…
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As reported by Newshub: Whale Oil blogger revealed as man behind hack plot Newshub can reveal controversial right-wing blogger Cameron Slater was at the centre of a plot to hack political website The Standard. His motivation was to embarrass and undermine Labour leader Andrew Little…
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Australian sources are reporting: APN and Fairfax mull over kiwi merger APN News & Media and Fairfax Media are considering a merger of their New Zealand businesses. APN owns The Herald and Newstalk ZB, Fairfax publishes the Dominion Post and the other Stuff resources. There…
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Contrary to Prime Minister John Key’s categorical assertion, his “lawyer”, Ken Whitney, has been found to have links to Mossack Fonseca, the Panama law firm at the centre of a global scandal on tax evasion and avoidance, TVNZ reported today. When it was first revealed…
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John Key says it is "utterly incorrect" that NZ is a tax haven. Someone better tell Wikipedia, as we appear on their page listing tax havens. Somebody better tell sites like taxhaven.biz: Tax Haven New Zealand ... Although New Zealand is said not to be…
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Ken Whitney, John Key's long time lawyer, has strong links to disgraced tax haven firm Mossack Fonseca. And, crucially, so did most of the people in the room when the then Revenue Minister Todd McClay folded on the potential moves to moderate New Zealand's foreign…
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Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Step up to the mike …
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I'm currently working in Christchurch. Cycling around the central city my first weekend here left me gobsmacked. Cafes, pubs and bookshops I used to know are gone. The landmarks I got used to when I first lived here at the turn of the century are…
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Daily review is also your post. This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Don’t forget to be kind to each other ...
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What the Panama Papers expose, and what John Key and his supporters, fail to grasp, or wilfully won’t grasp, is that there is no possible justification for tax havens. Key quibbles about whether New Zealand is a tax haven, but his government set up a…
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A steady stream of Northland logging truck accidents and roll overs in recent months have put locals on edge and made it to the national news media. It has been reported that excessive speed, some of the lowest pay rates in the country and trucking…
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The Radio New Zealand TV One Nicky Hager release of analysis of the Panama Papers is underway and the media response is fascinating. First up John Key pulled out of his regular Radio New Zealand interview after learning what he was to be questioned about.…
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Not content with a fine crop of domestic poverty, it seems that NZ is in the poverty export business. To quote an earlier post: Tax evasion is illegal. Tax avoidance is a moral grey-zone. They both cost governments income that could be used to further…
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A new release of Panama law firm Mossack Fonseca papers absolutely confirms New Zealand is a tax haven, said investigative writer Nicky Hager, who along with TVNZ and Radio New Zealand, has been given access to the huge wad of files. And ironically, it is…