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Thread ID: 123759 2012-03-14 19:46:00 Talk about "Milking It" B.M. (505) PC World Chat
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1264992 2012-03-14 19:46:00 HERE (www.stuff.co.nz)


"Three years ago it was revealed seven MPs – including Prime Minister John Key and current Cabinet ministers Phil Heatley, Gerry Brownlee and Amy Adams – had bought their offices and then billed the taxpayer for the rent".
B.M. (505)
1264993 2012-03-14 19:56:00 Cunning sods. One way of ensuring that they have reliable tenants. Bobh (5192)
1264994 2012-03-14 20:27:00 Thats why there is no democracy in NZ when commies like her get safe seats in a very bad part of the country prefect (6291)
1264995 2012-03-14 20:42:00 What does Richard think? Cicero (40)
1264996 2012-03-14 21:02:00 Cunning sods. One way of ensuring that they have reliable tenants.

Yes there’s no shortage of "Cunning", but a total lack of "Moral Fibre".
B.M. (505)
1264997 2012-03-14 21:15:00 It's kinda like running a home business, you're allowed to claim certain parts of your house back for rent etc.

Legal yes, but as B.M. points out it's kind of morally a grey area...
Chilling_Silence (9)
1264998 2012-03-14 21:30:00 and National are doing exactly the same, probably there idea in tge first place rip off communist party that they are gary67 (56)
1264999 2012-03-14 23:11:00 Years ago Jenny Shipley got money for adding an office to their home and when she got out of parliament my mother sent her a letter asking her if she had paid it back. At ten o'clock at night she got a sh!tty phone call from her husband. mikebartnz (21)
1265000 2012-03-14 23:21:00 It's kinda like running a home business, you're allowed to claim certain parts of your house back for rent etc.

Legal yes, but as B.M. points out it's kind of morally a grey area...
That is from the IRD and they probably do that too so are in fact double dipping.
I don't have a problem with them recovering actual costs incurred but it seems like a rort to me.
mikebartnz (21)
1265001 2012-03-14 23:54:00 That is from the IRD and they probably do that too so are in fact double dipping.
I don't have a problem with them recovering actual costs incurred but it seems like a rort to me.

They hate it when you expose them for what they are, trough munchers.
Cicero (40)
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