$194,000 Gift Duty Owing
Well, I thought it would never happen. Labour had actually handed over the $824,524 to the Parliamentary Service.
Of course, having legalised the misspending, there was no legal debt. The Parliamentary Service under Margaret Wilson’s guidance never asked for the money back. As such, the $824,524 given to the Parliamentary Service is a gift.
At the rates detailed in the Inland Revenue’s Gift Duty Guide (IR194, PDF), my calculations have the Labour party owing $193,850 in gift duty. Here’s hoping that Inland Revenue is as vicious towards the Labour party as it is towards more productive members of society.
UPDATE: A correspondent has pointed out that Jeanette Fitzsimons agrees that the payment is “a gift, not a debt”.
April 28th, 2007 at 8:17 pm
Can legal action be taken privately to ensure any payable duty is recovered from these untrustworthy and thoroughly corrupt scumbags ??
Would the other parties who have paid monies back be in the same situation with respect to gift duty ?
April 29th, 2007 at 12:46 am
Anyone whose gift was greater than $27,000 (see the chart above) should be liable. For example, the Greens at $87,000 owe about $10,000 in gift duty. By far the biggest penalty goes to Labour, the biggest abuser. The biggest thieves owe the most duty and the enablers who helped them pass their filthy get-out-of-jail-free legislation - United Future, New Zealand First, and the Greens - are the only others who would have to pay this duty. Poetic justice indeed.
April 30th, 2007 at 12:12 am
I wondered if all those people who donated large sums to political parties at the last election paid their gift duties.
May 28th, 2007 at 9:44 pm
I e-mailed snake oil Dunne but unsurprisingly received no reply, so I have now requested my National MP to ask a written question and for proof the money has been repaid. Hopefully this request will fall on more receptive ears.
June 10th, 2007 at 5:27 am
Are you going to backtrack on the headline “Labour to Break Repayment Promise”. Seeing as they paid it and all.
June 19th, 2007 at 7:07 pm
Maybe another case should be bought against Labour by the IRD? Gift duty owing, thats pretty naughty lol.
July 2nd, 2007 at 5:41 pm
Dave
A donation is not a gift
July 10th, 2007 at 6:11 pm
absolute correct dude, i consider you for the quixote award, the quixote award is a gold medal maltese cross with the star of david and the american eagle, previously awarded only to tim selwyn and Ilew,
this a breakthrough in helengrand future sequesterd to sweden for life with geoff palmer and mn, we could commence action, except how about them others parties,
peterquixote
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