It's a small survey, but Labour can take a bit of heart from this.
http://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/auckland...in-latest-poll
Here's some perspective on costs to govt: Novopay is costing tens of millions more than planned, and might have to be dropped in a few weeks, with the old supplier Datacom getting the go-ahead again. The whole cost was going to be about $100mill over 8 years. At the bottom of another article today in the press: how much IRD writes off in unpaid tax each year.
So why were National playing around with a parking tax? Not for revenue, well, I hope not. They have more important issues.Quote:
IRD write-offs
• In the year ended June 2011, $785.4 million of tax debt was written off because taxpayers were unable to pay.
• That was an increase of more than $118 million from the amount written off in June 2010.
• For year ending June 2009, $722.3 million written off.