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ed4444
Joined: 12 Oct 2004
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 Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 5:55 am Post subject: NZ people exploit tax loophole by carrying dead chickens |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4775677.stm
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Transport authorities in New Zealand have vowed to crack down on motorists who dodge taxes by registering their vehicles as hearses.
The scam emerged after a woman told a radio station that the manoeuvre saved her and her friends around NZ$125 ($77, �41) each.
Her car qualified, she said, because she used it to carry frozen chickens home from the supermarket.
As word spread, 40 people applied to reregister cars, a local website said.
Currently around 1,500 vehicles are registered in the low-charge "non-commercial hearse or ambulance" category, transport officials said.
Land Transport New Zealand has written to 937 possible scammers warning them to register correctly.
"Carrying groceries or dead animals in your car does not make it a hearse," spokesman Andy Knackstedt said.
He said offenders could be liable to a NZ$1,000 ($629, �330) fine.
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Zulu
Joined: 28 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 3:33 pm Post subject: |
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 I mean, what can you say to that? |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 3:47 pm Post subject: |
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| without it you're a dead duck |
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Bibbitybop
Joined: 22 Feb 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 9:07 pm Post subject: |
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| An idea (from someone totally unfamiliar with NZ law): Carry a dead or dying person in it once + get documentation = Hearse or ambulance from then on. |
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oldfatfarang
Joined: 19 May 2005
Location: On the road to somewhere.
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| Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 10:13 pm Post subject: |
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| Korean Hakwon owners could learn something from this. No, not how to cheat on taxes (they already know that - they don't pay tax). But this chicken-hearse thing is the product of people educated in an educational system that ENCOURAGES lateral thinking and creativity. Go Kiwis! |
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