Thread: I think we are about to get F******

Originally Posted by ChrisF

A lot of companies off shore will not bother at all , so I hope the GovT has big wharehouses & a lot of IRD staff to process all the little overseas purchases etc , GovT seems bent on doing stupid stuff , will have to vote Labour next time , chasing small amounts of tax seems counter productive ( when the cost of chasing the tax is more expensive than the result ) , unless the NEW IRD staff are for lowering the un-employment numbers ?

Does not seem LOGICAL , so it makes perfect sense to GovT .

yea it would be interesting to see how they go about managing something like this, didn't they drop gifting tax because it cost more to manage than they where getting? On the other hand I can see the up side as both the government and retailers must be losing some serious money with the online (off shore) purchases, retailers start shutting there doors because people are only trying on the clothes and buying online which in turn creates more unemployment and your city centres and malls turn into ghost towns because the cafes, etc don't have any customer's because they are all unemployed..... I think it's the old double edged sword.
Then again if our local shops weren't charging $200.00 for a pair of jeans that I can buy online for $50.00 the government wouldn't need to be thinking about all the online sales. I think its f#*ked either way.