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A bit like a homosexuals party this morning @ 0630 ..no C here! C’mon old timers wakey wakey🧓👵
You must have had your own party yesterday morning.
We all missed you.
We thought that you must have gone to Wellington to fill in your application to be PM.
All quiet at the Nelson toilets? Blowing like 40 bastards up here and forecast to get worse. Never mind, have a happy day everyone.
Calm as up here on the hill. Nelson gets some bloody great weather.
When it’s not raining landslides.
Never buy a house at the bottom of the hill.
Or the top
Or the side. Just stay away from that treacherous hill and go for some flat ground.
Tsunami and liquifaction will get you there
So when the going gets tough for the big boys, they play hard bal,l desite the unfairness of their position.
A proposed crackdown on companies that give shareholders loans, rather than pay them taxable income, appears dead in the water.
Inland Revenue has been eyeing the whopping $29 billion shareholders currently owe companies, questioning the extent to which companies are issuing shareholders loans, rather than paying them dividends, wages or salaries, to reduce their tax bills.
It is also worried some shareholders are using loans to withdraw funds from companies prior to them being liquidated, leaving creditors out of pocket.
So, between December and February, Inland Revenue consulted on treating some large loans to shareholders as dividends, which are taxable, if they aren’t repaid within a couple of years of being issued.
Cabinet is yet to decide whether to forge ahead with the proposal.
However, NZ First opposes the idea and Act has reservations.
Speaking to the Herald, NZ First deputy leader Shane Jones said changing the tax treatment of shareholder loans would be a “major departure” from the status quo.
“That is not something that NZ First has ever agreed on.”
Meanwhile, Act’s finance spokesman, Todd Stephenson, said his party was concerned the proposal could amount to double taxation – “once when the loan is deemed taxable, and again when the shareholder has to use already-taxed income to repay the loan”.
“ACT opposes double taxation.”
However, Stephenson said, “If there are loopholes that allow income to escape tax permanently, they should be closed in a targeted way that doesn’t punish legitimate business activity.
“New Zealand’s tax system works best when it is simple, predictable, and neutral.”
Revenue Minister (and National Party MP) Simon Watts declined to share his view on the matter, saying ministers were still considering the “wide range of views” Inland Revenue received, and no decisions had been made on next steps.
Inland Revenue explained that companies controlled by a few shareholders often legitimately lend to shareholders.
While most companies manage these loans responsibly, some shareholders rack up large debts over many years.
This could be advantageous to them.
While a shareholder will need to pay interest on the loan they receive from their company, and the company will need to pay 28% tax on this interest income, the shareholder won’t be taxed on the loan.
However, if the money were paid to them in the form of a dividend, salary or wage, they would need to pay tax on the income at their marginal income tax rate, which could be as high as 39%.
In the 2024 tax year, about 5500 companies were owed more than $1 million by their shareholders. Of these companies, more than 540 were owed more than $5m.
Inland Revenue said, “We are concerned that the high value of shareholder loans suggests that our current rules relating to shareholder loans are less effective than rules in other jurisdictions at requiring the loan be repaid within a certain period of time or before the company goes out of existence.
“This can result in the tax advantage becoming a permanent advantage for the shareholder if the loan is never repaid.”
Inland Revenue said that in the six years to 2025, nearly 15% of all companies removed from the Companies Register were owed money by their shareholders at the time they were removed.
Collectively, shareholders owed these companies $2b.
So, Inland Revenue also proposed taxing loans once a company ceased.
It also proposed treating loans as dividends if they weren’t repaid within 12 months after the end of the income year they were issued.
It suggested this apply to loans issued from December 4, 2025, onwards – meaning the law change would apply retrospectively.
To prevent the change from impacting small businesses and ordinary transactions, it would only apply to companies whose total lending to shareholders was worth $50,000 or more.
It would also only apply to companies owned by individuals or small groups of shareholders, as widely-held companies, partnerships and sole traders can’t use shareholder loans.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/personal-finance/tax/nz-first-and-act-shoot-down-inland-revenue-proposal-to-tax-company-loans-to-shareholders/premium/VE5OUD3TPRFMBCUAYU5GU3TCNE/
Not hard to guess who uses this loophole. NZ First has been exposed on this before as have the Nats. and some Iwi richmen will get done over.
Kiwi richmen pay tax. That’s racist!
What an arrogant prick Shonkey really is. For some reason he thinks he knows what we want.
Which of course he doesn’t.
Former Prime Minister Sir John Key has taken a potshot at the Reserve Bank’s proposal to require banks to set up hundreds, if not thousands, of additional ATMs and/or cash services sites to ensure people can easily trade using cash.
Key, who is also the former chair of ANZ New Zealand, said he appreciated that cash was still necessary in situations like natural disasters.
But ordinarily, Kiwis didn’t want to go to an ATM for cash or travel to a branch to bank, he said, and “if you look at why banks are closing branches, it’s got nothing to do with trying to be annoying to politicians”.
“The reason they’re doing it is what customers want. They don’t want to go into a branch, they don’t want to have to do anything other than pick up their phone or log into their laptop.”
Maybe for him, but lots of others want to have cash, and why should they not? It doesn’t suit his whiz bang entreprenures, I guess.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/john-key-backs-digital-banking-hits-out-at-reserve-bank-push-for-more-cash-access/premium/G67Z3TGIMRFKHHY62ADUYIQPE4/
Like clark he should just fuck off and live somewhere ele.
Maybe we don’t want to have to go to a bank, and line up for the only teller working, for cash, but ATMs at supermarkets, shopping malls, dairies, and petrol stations would be helpful. Trying to find an ATM these days is why so many resort to using their phones/laptops.
Next time the internet is down, power is off, or someone just wants to send money in a birthday card, a picture of an IOU may not suffice.
The bigger issue to me are the many businesses not accepting cash. Why get cash out if you can’t spend it where you want to?
Saw a sign on restaurant, “cashless” , quess they don’t want my patronage.
the banks here aee hardly open and when they are its oddball days and hours, then if you want to see a specific person theyre only there 1 day a week.
theyve purposely inconvenienced customers from using in purpose banking to then justify closures etc.
Some seem to open on Saturday. The ASB branch in the Porirua mall does. The Queensgate ASB branch opens both days in the weekend.
Pretty good IMO.
Every servo could have a cash machine.
It might be him deflecting from having to bail out his son and his business dealings with dodgy chinks
𝗥𝗨𝗦𝗦𝗜𝗔 𝗜𝗦 𝗥𝗘𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗡𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗧𝗢 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗨𝗦 𝗗𝗢𝗟𝗟𝗔𝗥. 𝗖𝗛𝗜𝗡𝗔 𝗜𝗦 𝗙𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗢𝗨𝗧.
Russia is now willing to trade in U.S. dollars again and abandon BRICS currency. China is freaking out — and they should be. Russia was the last piece of the puzzle needed to bring China’s alternative financial architecture to its knees. Without Russia, BRICS as a dollar-replacement strategy is effectively dead.
Controlling the world’s reserve currency is not a small thing. It is the foundation of American economic power. Every country that trades in dollars needs dollars. Every country that needs dollars has to maintain a relationship with America. The entire post-war global order was built on this. China and Russia spent years trying to dismantle it. 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗽𝘂𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗥𝘂𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗮 𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺.
And here is the military dimension that is not getting nearly enough coverage. China had positioned significant air defense resources and weaponry in both Venezuela and Iran. Trump took out Venezuela. Trump is taking out Iran. In the first 20 hours of Operation Epic Fury, the smokescreen of Chinese military might was decimated. China now knows two things it didn’t know before: our military is far stronger than their intelligence suggested, and the proxy arsenal they spent years building and positioning is gone.
Critics of the Iran strike whined about depleting American munition reserves. Our reserves are not nearly as depleted as China’s. They burned their proxies. We burned their proxies too — and kept most of ours.
Oil is still cheaper right now than it was under Biden. The temporary price increase is the cost of permanently removing a terrorist regime that held the world’s energy supply hostage for 47 years, destroying China’s proxy military architecture, and pulling Russia out of the anti-dollar coalition.
𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁’𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗮 𝗯𝗮𝗱 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝟯𝟬 𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗮 𝗴𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗼𝗻 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮 𝗳𝗲𝘄 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝘀.
source: rando bullshit artist on x
russia and other countries will straddle both payment systems, theyll use brics internally for brics country deals and usd for trade with other countries… thats the way it was always going to be.
the algorithm knows youre a gullable old dude thats no longer capable of fact checking so it constantly feeds you crap thats 99.99% bullshit and speculation… anything pro trump you eat up quicker than a maori with kfc 🙂
trump hasnt done jack shit really, just set off billions of dollars of fireworks in iran, replaced kahlemini with kahlemeni, making oil companies profit and if hes true to his word and pulls out of bombing iran within weeks then the worlds left with another mess in the middle east that will take decades to sort itself out.
only plus side is their military capabilities have been decimated but no one knows if theyll ever stop the drone launching esp in the straight.
iran is so free now that its womens soccer team cant return home without fear of execution cuz they didnt sing the national anthem.
the whole point if this intervention was supposedly to “free the iranian people”…. well thats what the gullable trump dick suckers believed anyways, theyre too dumb to see trump is a puppet of israel/jews and hes just serving the interests of netenyahu and trumps largest donor who bought him for 250mil.
downtickers gunna be super hurty feels with facts today 🤣
Not downticking today SB -will wait a week or two to see what all pans out but I do like this comment.
“iran is so free now that its womens soccer team cant return home without fear of execution cuz they didnt sing the national anthem.
the whole point if this intervention was supposedly to “free the iranian people”…”
I think it’s all pretty much academic anyway. Not a lot of commercial planes flying to Iran at the moment.
Rol, heres a bit on the use of ai in war and the scraps going on behind the scenes.
https://youtu.be/zoY_-aRmPoM?si=jKSsRO-g7ZViBxEA
dosent mention anthropics disgust about its stuff being used in the maduro raid leading to them questioning the contract and ultimately decline it resulting in hegseths disgust and outrage
Hi Thanks, i’ll look later
“When he was police minister, crime went up. When he was education minister, attendance rapidly declined. When he was prime minister, debt exploded. He screws up everything. If he opened a funeral parlour, no one would die ”
😂😂 – David Seymour on Hipkins.
https://x.com/i/status/2031432648154034602
our healthcare system is too underfunded to cover treatment costs of that epic burn!
Went down the beach to watch the start of the Kubota fishing classic. It’s blowing 35knts Easterly and the sea is very angry, and meant to get worser.
Some hardy souls are braving the elements, bloody crazy if you ask me.
Looked it up to see where it is -Whitianga. I see it says the focus is on catch and release. Over 450 boats, could be a bit crowded??.
Anyway would be funny if the heaviest caught was released and caught again. First equal one would presume.
ego and prize money entice people to endure shit conditions and do silly and risky things.
Be plenty of burley going over the side I’d imagine. Not for me either thanks.
Just started raining heavily up here, next stop Whitianga.
Has to go past me first. Just light rain here (horizontal though)
No wind here. Our weather vain is totally still. Light rain.
Cloudy no wind, no rain, overcast.
”genetically superior”
https://nominister.wordpress.com/2026/03/11/so-maori-claim-to-be-genetically-superior/
Idiot boss I once worked for hired a young Maori guy and put him in the crew I was then foreman of
He only hired him because winz gave him $100 a week or something towards his pay, He had done the same before and got burnt, slow learner that boss was, greedy prick too
Anyway one lunch time, said young Maori guy proceeded to tell us how Maori were once super human, before they bred with YT
They could run at about 100km an hour, jump the height of a power pole, and had super hearing so they could hear a Moa from 20kms away
He was dead serious, obviously we all pissed ourselves laughing
He didn’t like that and kept insisting it was true, we laughed harder
He got pretty aggressive in the end but as he was outnumbered 8 to 1 didn’t fancy fighting about it
Lasted till the end of the day then never saw him again, or the tools the boss had given him to use
Bottle fed warm BS from birth by his equally stupid farnow we figured
I find the best thing about being self employed is I don’t have to work with/babysit fckwits anymore
Well, she’s not genetic pure Maori is she. None left, crossbreeding.
Crossbreeding is used by NZ cockys all the time though it has it’s limitations. Instance using terminal sires. You could use, say, a texel ram over suffolk ewes & hit the jackpot for carcase weight. What you’ve achieved is a ‘hybrid vigour’ but it will last only that one generation. Try mating the progeny of your original cross & the results will likely be disastrous.
That is how two breeders have captured the entire chicken market. They run various lines of roosters & mate them with known lines of hens. The result is an egg machine but again you have to go back to the known genetics to reproduce the bird.
Unless you’ve swallowed religious Koolaid by the gallon & believe in the Genesis crap man is only a very advanced animal with superior brainpower & opposable thumbs. Why would the results of random breeding of strains of humans be much different to those of sheep?
Looking around us in society, it’s not a flash thing to see. All the feral idiots have been bred by ferals breeding more ferals.
Look no further than all the 1st cousin breeding in the moslems in England
The inbred UK muslims with their resulting low IQ are not so silly when it comes to taking advantage of the UK disability payments. The more disabled kids they produce the more gimmie they receive from the taxpayer. Inbreeding is encouraged by the funding stream.
Yep. And not only are they breeding using all the wrong genetics. They’re outbreeding us because we insist on paying for the results of their fecundity.
The feral maori are getting some dumb cunts as a result!
Not attending school probably doesn’t help
Like those meat heads who put Nia Glassey in the dryer and hung her from the washing line torturing her before she died. They should have been put down like the dangerous dogs they are.
Interesting piece from Bryce Edwards commenting on analysis by Danyl McLauchlan
https://www.brashandmitchell.com/post/bryce-edwards-democracy-briefing-the-five-voter-tribes-that-will-decide-who-governs-new-zealand?
What tribe do you fit into?
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Three nuns are talking. The first nun says, “I was cleaning in Father’s room the other day and do you know what I found? A bunch of pornographic magazines.”
“What did you do?” the other nun asks.
“Well, of course I threw them in the trash.”
The second nun says, “Well, I can top that. I was in Father’s room putting away the laundry and I found a bunch of condoms!”
“Oh my!” gasp the other nuns. “What did you do?” they ask.
“I poked holes in all of them!” she replies.
The third nun faints.
That’s an oldy, was around when I was going to school.
I remember once a few years back being at a celebrity livestock auction where I bought a sheep. I saw Shane Jones talking to Billy T James & I was lucky enough to get in the middle of them for a picture.
There I was, clown to the left of me, joker to the right, stuck in the middle with ewe.
‘Celebrity livestock’…
and the ewe said Don’t ewe know who I am?! 🐑
Saw a blog from Aust, a poll onn if they wanted Harry and Megan to visit Australia,
99 percent said No,we don’t want you to come.
One percent said yes we would like a visit.
Not sure where the invite came from, was it from the government or the Sussex saying we would like to come for tea and scones. By the way, you are paying fares, accommodation!
They think they are more interesting than other royals so invited themselves to grandstand in Aus to rival King Chuck’s upcoming visit to the USA and Trump.
Haz and Markle spent part of their honeymoon six years ago in Aus and Fiji. They moaned they didn’t enjoy it and now are going back. Aussie’s remember and don’t want them.
You realise that they will be able to hob nob with the bitch!
The bitch had to fly n her mother and sister to Aust to celebrate birthday.
She’s unable to come home, no one likes her.
Going mid April. King and Queen there at the same time!
King Chuck has been invited by President Trump to celebrate the 250 year anniversary of the founding of the United States.
Trump’s organised celebrations will be spectacularly BIGLY 🎆🎆🎆 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸
Aus might give Haz and Megs a prawn on the barbie.
They might deny them a visit.
Whats the upside for Auzzie??
Entertaining the bitch!
Hipkins is throwing Bloomfield under the bus by saying the fact that the information about the lack on need to give teens the jab and the potential risks/dangers to the kids was not passed onto Ministers is Bloomfield’s fault. ( from what I’ve read there seems to be some debate about what the Ministers got and what they didn’t).
Let them fight –handbags at midday in Parliament’s steps, in public, would be good//
Ross, the ministers can say “I don’t recall seeing the information” as a way to lie about it without being caught lying. Labour are a bunch of lying wankers.
Given that the stats about the Tsunami of Myocarditis post vaccine, and the Tsunami of reports from Doctors about Myocarditis, it is all lies.
They knew. We know they knew. And they know we know they knew. If they had nothing to hide, they would have fronted the public inquiry, even if the questions were written to pamper and protect them.
“We have nothing to hide, but we are going to hide it anyway.”
“We didn’t do anything wrong, but if we did do anything wrong, we would strenuously deny it anyway.”
Russian Roulette would be preferable…..
mate in aussie rekons their diesel supply is about to run out due to all the farmers and transport companies stockpiling. they rekon only 6-8days left but hes unsure if its nationwide or just a couple of states.
I filled up on Friday at $1.95/L pump price. It’s $2.35 today.
i filled up just before and its 2.24 here, last time i fueled up it was 1.69 that was couple weeks ago tho.
someone call the waaaaaambulance…
https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360949458/deadpool-shirt-spotted-walmart-canada-criticised-ta-moko-style-design
i rekon if i had a bush shit that landed in a squigle similar to part of a moko the cunts would get upset. get over it, youre not special, you dont own that shit and the rest of the worlds a free place from your cultural bullshit.
Fuck me, thats my kulcha being appropriated. Thats more Celtic than Maori.
When will all this bludging end.
Oh dear, how sad!
Bloody hell. This from Hobson’s Pledge. This government is WORSE than Labour. This shit HAS TO BE STOPPED.
“Farmers in gore (and anyone wanting to build something) are staring down a new reality that before they dig a silage pit, build a shed, fix a farm track, or dozens of other everyday farming activities, resource consents must be assessed against Ngāi Tahu cultural values like mauri (life force), wairua (spiritual connections), whakapapa (relationships between all life forms), and utu (restoring balance).”
It is a fork out or fail to get consents situation.
Extortion.
Disgusting!
Heinz Wattie’s to shut Auckland, Christchurch, Dunedin factories, 350 jobs hit
Food manufacturer Heinz Wattie’s plans to shut three New Zealand factories, affecting about 350 jobs.
The changes were part of the company’s shift to focus on its long-term strategy, it said.
The proposal would result in the closure of three manufacturing facilities located in Auckland, Christchurch and Dunedin.
“After careful consideration, the company is proposing to discontinue sale and production of frozen vegetables and Gregg’s coffee, as well as dips sold primarily under Mediterranean, Just Hummus and Good Taste Company brands,” it said.
These products would be phased out over the course of the year.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/companies/manufacturing/heinz-wattie-to-shut-auckland-christchurch-dunedin-factories-350-jobs-hit/PREQZWBKVFCCVICLPLLE7ARFFQ/?utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=hbt_fb&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwY2xjawQd1g5leHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFBYjNPNXRJVHFsa0FhcGVkc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHqlCGNJnusWMctPl4INaVp37ML5jmk2zajswqgkGB4h_Z7UW2sH6mOpVfaX-_aem_4uUbd-0E_Q4V6fRG0E4O9g#Echobox=1773198688
Around 220 growers in the Canterbury region alone supply the Christchurch site.
The ripple effects of the closures would be felt across entire communities, O’Dwyer-Cunliffe said.
“This is part of an unfortunately familiar pattern of local manufacturing shutting down across Aotearoa.
“We’ve seen it with Carter Holt Harvey at Eves Valley, Sealord in Nelson, Kinleith Pulp and Paper, and now Heinz Wattie’s.
“The Government has been asleep at the wheel while local manufacturing collapses around the country.”
I hope the growers can do a similar thing to the potato farmer who lost his contract with Bluebird and started Heartland.
The Chinese were dumping goods at any world port that would take their goods after international customers cancelled their orders.
Presumably Heinz-Watties could have passed on purchasing Chinese dumped food instead of shitting on long time local growers. No more Golden Queen peaches or locally grown veggies.
🤬
A major bridge has closed and could cut off 10,000 Bundaberg residents for days without any access to food or medication.
https://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/weather/full-list-of-road-closures-across-queensland-due-to-flooding-from-29u-weather-system/news-story/2f68d3b5ac0befe8e605a0698cac686c?fbclid=IwY2xjawQd2NdleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFBYjNPNXRJVHFsa0FhcGVkc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHqnp12Ok3lHUasAApZXwt3O6gGz_KRuZmXaCTKeyvJH42ljE3VZlXZm2AjEq_aem_jZEfx81bPxHgLMR4utix6g
At least they’ve got Bundaberg
And a heartwarming tale of good news at https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/torbay-residents-dismayed-about-sale-of-st-mary-by-the-sea/CMXB6EBOG5AULGBGEZIOODJOEY/ It appears that the sellers of smoke are down to 76 die hard, fucked in the head regulars:
#. “Congregation numbers and giving continue to decline. Maintenance of current buildings is continuously deferred,”
Certainly, whatever the land & buildings are repurposed for, it will be an improvement.
Two pieces of shit in one day:
Treaty of Waitangi vandal gets off scot free because he’s a clackbunt:
https://theplatform.kiwi/podcasts/episode/sean-plunket-reacts-to-te-papa-vandal-dropped-of-all-charges
and it turns out that we lucky Wellington ratepayers subsidise rents for largely commie public servants:
https://wellington.govt.nz/news-and-events/news-and-information/our-wellington/2022/04/te-kainga
From FJA’s link:
#. “These family friendly apartments offer long-term tenancies below market rates, which include new whiteware, free Wi-Fi, recycling, refuse collection, and bike parking, with the city’s many attractions right on your doorstep. Applications are prioritised to people in public sector roles.”
IOW unless you’re a Green voting, overbreeding native who can’t afford to buy a car & is employed by Te Puni Kōkiri or the Ministry for Maori Development don’t bother applying.
I know of a public servant in their late 20s living in one of the places. Earns around $85k. Hardly on the bones of their arse even if they’re paying off a student loan.
What a sick joke.
In case this hasn’t been posted here already:
Worth watching:
Things are actually worse here than in Britain thanks largely to Ardern.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ckq-00eekE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d48hTu2nq5E
Shane Jones: It’s about time we step away from mythology & use our resources for economic security
The madness of Starmer’s Labour Party
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0fY77jpMfT8
No criticism of Islam
Short
I hope these absolute cunts are met by plenty of protesters:
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/dame-jacinda-ardern-and-grant-robertson-to-reunite-on-stage-at-dunedin-festival/ZXYWQPM5AJFIVHJOHRHELGYQ2E/
Its dunners. All the sick bastards and queers will be there.
Meanwhile at the Tauranga Gerontocomium life drags on: