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| Thread ID: 125037 | 2012-06-02 20:28:00 | Excuse me Paper Boys & Girls | B.M. (505) | PC World Chat |
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| 1279325 | 2012-06-03 06:05:00 | I think most are the ones that deliver the local free papers. Kids round here do, and the junk mail. | pctek (84) | ||
| 1279326 | 2012-06-03 08:28:00 | I think most are the ones that deliver the local free papers. Kids round here do, and the junk mail. Kids aren't even delivering the junk mail around here now. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 1279327 | 2012-06-03 09:05:00 | Kids aren't even delivering the junk mail around here now. Being one of those 'kids', I can tell you why. The pay is lousy, the hours are bad - particularly the star, which had to be delivered before 8am, and generally if you call up and say something, even that you don't have enough papers, nothing happens. |
Nick G (16709) | ||
| 1279328 | 2012-06-03 09:28:00 | Being one of those 'kids', I can tell you why. The pay is lousy, the hours are bad - particularly the star, which had to be delivered before 8am, and generally if you call up and say something, even that you don't have enough papers, nothing happens. Welcome to the real world. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 1279329 | 2012-06-03 09:37:00 | Welcome to the real world. Haha yes I know. But, I mean, for kids who only spend on small things, and whose parents can and will pay for the larger, more expensive things, why would they do it? Unfortunately not in that situation :( |
Nick G (16709) | ||
| 1279330 | 2012-06-03 10:10:00 | You'll have to pay more Tax as we need another $50m. HERE (www.stuff.co.nz) :mad: Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz |
globe (11482) | ||
| 1279331 | 2012-06-03 11:55:00 | Whatever the Govts spending it on, not what I really care about, though I'm personally well over all the BS "Treaty" claims. Give back the original muskets, clothing and whatnot, and then you can have your land back. As for the paper boys & girls, they'll get over it. For the better part, they're young kids who don't even know that they *can* get a tax back. So they miss out on a small amount back each year of say $200-400 (ballpark). I can pretty much promise you that isn't going to schoolbooks and the likes, but it'll be blown on "something extra", like either junk food, movies, or whatever else. I did a paper run for about 3 years, rain or shine, riding my bike for 20 minutes each way to / from where we'd start. Never once claimed it back at the end of the tax year. Did I know I could get the money? Nope! Did *anybody* else I know, know that I could claim it back at the end of the tax year? Nobody ever told me until now, some 11 years later, and it was only coz the media blew the whole thing up. Do I care I missed out? Not in the slightest. I worked hard, delivering circulars 2-3x a week, and that's just part of life, hard work! None of this crying about not getting an annual payout. You get over it. The kid saying she couldn't use that money to buy herself extra schoolbooks, whatever, not buying it in the slightest! Need more money? Take on an extra round, or ask for another dozen or two houses. It's not the end of the world, really. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1279332 | 2012-06-03 23:52:00 | Whatever the Govts spending it on, not what I really care about, though I'm personally well over all the BS "Treaty" claims. Give back the original muskets, clothing and whatnot, and then you can have your land back. As for the paper boys & girls, they'll get over it. For the better part, they're young kids who don't even know that they *can* get a tax back. So they miss out on a small amount back each year of say $200-400 (ballpark). I can pretty much promise you that isn't going to schoolbooks and the likes, but it'll be blown on "something extra", like either junk food, movies, or whatever else. I did a paper run for about 3 years, rain or shine, riding my bike for 20 minutes each way to / from where we'd start. Never once claimed it back at the end of the tax year. Did I know I could get the money? Nope! Did *anybody* else I know, know that I could claim it back at the end of the tax year? Nobody ever told me until now, some 11 years later, and it was only coz the media blew the whole thing up. Do I care I missed out? Not in the slightest. I worked hard, delivering circulars 2-3x a week, and that's just part of life, hard work! None of this crying about not getting an annual payout. You get over it. The kid saying she couldn't use that money to buy herself extra schoolbooks, whatever, not buying it in the slightest! Need more money? Take on an extra round, or ask for another dozen or two houses. It's not the end of the world, really. You make some interesting points there Chill. I agree that most people, including me, will get over it.Your ballpark guess was pretty accurate, for paper rounds it would be around $200. I also agree that most people do use it to buy crap, not stuff like schoolbooks. However, like most others, I don't claim tax back, not because I don't know how to, but because it is never taxed in the first place. So, most people will notice a difference,a and although $200 is a small amount in total, as a percentage of a paper boys yearly income its a lot more. My main problem,however, is that if you're under 18, you can't vote. In America I believe this is called taxation without representation. Yes, I do know that this is NZ, not the US. What actually annoys me about this is not that they will be taxing me, but the nats believe that it is ok to tax a paper round but not ok to tax booze - especially RTDs and spirits, which would generate more revenue. |
Nick G (16709) | ||
| 1279333 | 2012-06-04 00:22:00 | No you're missing the point, it's already being taxed, the money is already going out of their pockets. I believe the law is that under 18's or something, earning under a ballpark $2500 then can claim back 10% of that total wage (How much they're taxed in the first place, I can't remember). Yes, granted kids can't vote, but that's something they depend on their parents to do on their behalf up until the age of which that law no longer applies to them. Also, claiming tax back is amazingly easy through the IRD website. Best of all they don't take a huge cut like the tax refund websites cropping up all over the show do. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1279334 | 2012-06-04 00:24:00 | but not ok to tax booze - especially RTDs and spirits, which would generate more revenue. I think you should added more there because it already has a higher tax than other products. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
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