cryptome.org indymedia.org.nz I’m a long time Inland Revenue NZ employee of 20 years I have many frustrations with incompetent managers, absolute waste of taxpayer money, illiterate team leaders ( ‘waist bin’ in team minutes is not a typo, it’s a spelling mistake), a workplace bully, Carol Buckenham, who has had extraordinary protection, even by my union delegates, failed payroll systems, failing tools, and last but not least a tax system which is designed to overdeduct tax, but which the IRD adverts sold as ‘you never have to file a tax return again’ allowing a company to set up a very succesful business giving people back the money the government hoped they wouldn’t claim … There’s also penalising of low income taxpayers but almost no scrutiny of huge refunds going out the door — my job was to check refunds of over $100000 and I was told on Friday to do this at the rate of 9 per hour, if that was the work given to me. In this case it was me the payroll system failed to pay — twice — and they had no idea why and asked me to get a bank statement to prove I wasn’t paid as they thought I had been. Complaints got me nowhere, requests for information got me nowhere and finally four official information requests (our FOIA equivalent) resulted in either no information, or on the last day an extension could be requested in a well-defined form, simply a statement that I’d be charged NZ$38 per half hour, without specifying what would be provided, when, or even whether they’d …
Sorry Dave/Mick, but you were a bit naive if you thought you were going to get a fair portrayal on TVNZ. To quote George Orwell “Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper”. Multiply that by 1000 when the medium is TV. You must have noticed this yourself – think of any event where you had insider knowledge, and how unsatisfactory the media reports were.
You courted media attention with your actions, now you’re finding out it’s a two-edged sword.
Good on you.
IRD harassed family members of mine for years; froze bank accounts; basically took control of possible sale of their house. They defended their position for 3 long years until it went to court and the IRD we found at fault and were ordered to pay back money with interest, that took another year to be sorted.
They are not above the law; IRD is a govt. department, they work for us.
I’d be careful who you protest against, the Global Elite Banking Cartel is a Criminal Syndicate of Bankers known to use extortion.
Murder is the most common method of problem solving, which includes taking YOU and your family’s life if they determine you to be an obstacle circumventing their sadistic grab for power and bottomless financial greed.
It mystifies the mind these evil men who enslave our world aren’t being categorically assassinated for their vile acts of terror against honest people.
@philthy122 im not to sure if the IRD is a gove department as its never been signed into existance by the govenor general. there for making it another scam to rid you and i of our worthless fiat currency