Mark Peck MP
Chairperson
Finance and Expenditure Committee

Finance And Expenditure Committee Calls For Submissions On GST Changes And The Transfer Of Overpaid Tax

The Finance and Expenditure Committee has called for submissions on proposed changes to the GST treatment of non-residents, announced Mark Peck MP, the Chairperson of the Finance and Expenditure Committee. The committee is also calling for submissions on proposed amendments relating to the transfer of over-paid tax, which the Minister of Revenue has referred to the committee with the GST proposals. The submissions are due by 5 pm, 6 June 2001 and will be considered in the course of the committee’s examination of the Taxation (Annual Rates, Taxpayer Assessment and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill. The proposed amendments can be viewed on our web site at http://www.clerk.parliament.govt.nz/publications.

The committee requires 20 copies of each submission. Those wishing to include any information of a private or personal nature in a submission should first discuss this with the clerk of the committee, as submissions are usually released to the public by the committee. Those wishing to appear before the committee to speak to their submissions should state this clearly and provide a daytime telephone contact number. For further guidance on making a submission, our publication Making a Submission to a Parliamentary Select Committee can be found on our web site at http://www.clerk.parliament.govt.nz.

Submissions should be addressed as follows:

Julian Kersey
Finance and Expenditure Committee Secretariat
Parliament House
WELLINGTON

ENDS

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Gordon Campbell: On the Sony cyber attack

Given the layers of meta-irony involved, the saga of the Sony cyber attack seemed at the outset more like a snarky European art film than a popcorn entry at the multiplex.

Yet now with (a) President Barack Obama weighing in on the side of artistic freedom and calling for the US to make a ‘proportionate response’quickly followed by (b) North Korea’s entire Internet service going down, and with both these events being followed by (c) Sony deciding to backtrack and release The Interview film that had made it a target for the dastardly North Koreans in the first place, then ay caramba…the whole world will now be watching how this affair pans out. More>>