tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4822259594352375763.post2132751094553443387..comments2024-01-09T23:21:40.634+13:00Comments on Thoughts from 40° South: Labour's cynical election bribe just more legalised theftKiwiwithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10507667837257013301noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4822259594352375763.post-64449585797737023322014-01-29T10:29:12.339+13:002014-01-29T10:29:12.339+13:00Yes to all your arguments, plus one more. The bure...Yes to all your arguments, plus one more. The bureaucracy involved.<br /><br />For those of us on the coal face preparing tax returns, Working for Families is a nightmare given the adjustments that have to be made. The majority of processing and other errors for tax returns in this office relate not to the rest of an income tax return, but to WFF.<br /><br />If Best Start is brought in, there will be yet another layer in returns over top of WFF. If you could add up the cost of administering that across every tax return filed, it would be a big number.<br /><br />If you have to have such policy - and you don't and a country shouldn't - then at the very least it should be via the existing mechanism, WFF, or, abolish that and bring in new system. Don't simply lay another system designed for the same ends as the existing convoluted system, over that system.<br /><br />It's nuts. But then Cunliffe saying he's going to increase WFF is not sexy from an electioneering of view. Promoting Best Start is. More Left nonsense that we all have to pay for.<br /><br />OT: I have no time to blog again until April, but am surprised to see the dearth of liberation styled blogs slamming David Clark's statement last night on TV 3 news that banning Facebook was a legitimate option for government if that company did not pay more tax here. If this Labour government does get in, I think it will be one of the most Stalinesque government for some time.Mark Hubbardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02541153163041831880noreply@blogger.com