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#2862406 6-Feb-2022 09:10

Geektastic: Tax should be due on money you have earned. Not on money you might earn.

Yep. A few years ago I made a large one-off sale and had to pay a decent chunk of tax. 'The system' decided that I'd apparently be doing the same every year, and I had to pay a decent chunk of provisional tax (which of course doesn't earn me interest when it's sitting in IRD's account instead of mine) only to get it all paid back again a year later.

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#2862493 6-Feb-2022 12:41

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Geektastic: Tax should be due on money you have earned. Not on money you might earn.

Yep. A few years ago I made a large one-off sale and had to pay a decent chunk of tax. 'The system' decided that I'd apparently be doing the same every year, and I had to pay a decent chunk of provisional tax (which of course doesn't earn me interest when it's sitting in IRD's account instead of mine) only to get it all paid back again a year later.

It's fairly outrageous. Your electricity company can't bill you for what you 'might' use based on what you used last year plus 5%.

I had a tax bill following the 19/20 tax year because we had a good year. However the 20/21 tax year tanked to a loss because of the fact that they shut the border and the business needs international travellers. However because the previous year was good they want x+5% for the next one. It's completely irrational.

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#2862495 6-Feb-2022 12:44

Air NZ.

This booking cannot be cancelled on line. Please call us.

"We are helping other customers and expect to answer your call in 50 minutes."

No call centre should take 50 minutes to answer a call. They should use call back if they are unable to meet reasonable standards (which I regard as 10 minutes max, less than 2 ideally).

Now I have to listen to annoying music for almost an hour just to cancel a fully refundable flight....

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#2862500 6-Feb-2022 12:49

Geektastic:
Air NZ.
"We are helping other customers and expect to answer your call in 50 minutes."

I wrote to Consumer a while back suggesting that they investigate this, specifically the bogus "higher than normal call volumes" nonsense, perhaps other Consumer members could also request it. Just not all at once so it looks like an organised campaign.

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#2862505 6-Feb-2022 13:13

neb:
Geektastic:

Air NZ.

"We are helping other customers and expect to answer your call in 50 minutes."

I wrote to Consumer a while back suggesting that they investigate this, specifically the bogus "higher than normal call volumes" nonsense, perhaps other Consumer members could also request it. Just not all at once so it looks like an organised campaign.

I think they just hope customers will get bored and go away. I have been randomly cut off once already on the call.

EDIT - cut off twice now.

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#2862882 7-Feb-2022 08:03

I need to change an Air NZ flight from March to November. Their online system will only allow flight changes out to October, yet it's possible to book a whole new flight whenever you want!

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#2862932 7-Feb-2022 11:23

Behodar:

Geektastic: Tax should be due on money you have earned. Not on money you might earn.

Yep. A few years ago I made a large one-off sale and had to pay a decent chunk of tax. 'The system' decided that I'd apparently be doing the same every year, and I had to pay a decent chunk of provisional tax (which of course doesn't earn me interest when it's sitting in IRD's account instead of mine) only to get it all paid back again a year later.

You know you can call IRD and say the provisional tax is going to be too high and for you to provide a different estimate. They can do that for you. But you have to be careful since if you underestimate and end up owing them, then they charge penalties on the underpaid amount.

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#2862947 7-Feb-2022 12:15

The alternative would be getting you to submit paye statements fortnightly or letting you pay at the end of the tax year plus interest.

I've been making provisional payments for several years without drama.

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#2862950 7-Feb-2022 12:24

lchiu7:

You know you can call IRD and say the provisional tax is going to be too high and for you to provide a different estimate. They can do that for you. But you have to be careful since if you underestimate and end up owing them, then they charge penalties on the underpaid amount.

You can actually do it on line when you do your Tax Return (IR3).. Near the end you have the choice of accepting the IRD estimate of Provisional Tax for the following year or you can change it to Estimated and fill in the amount you think it should be for the upcoming year. If you have an accountant acting as your agent and they haven't checked with you they are doing a pretty poor job.

With the dates due for payment it should actually work out that you have received the monies upon which you are being provisionally assessed. See the payment schedule below:

https://www.ird.govt.nz/income-tax/provisional-tax/paying-your-provisional-tax/payment-dates-for-provisional-tax

So you are not giving the taxman the tax before you have earned it.

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#2863032 7-Feb-2022 14:38

Geektastic:
I think they just hope customers will get bored and go away. I have been randomly cut off once already on the call.

EDIT - cut off twice now.

If you're on a VoIP phone service, which I assume most people on fibre will be, install a soft phone and run it in the background while you're working, that way you don't waste any time with them apart from having to listen to the hold muzak.

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#2863078 7-Feb-2022 16:47

I just took the dog for a one km long walk on the beach.

Some clown decided cars would be allowed to drive on it this year even though there is a road running parallel with the dunes only being 10-20m wide at most. Parking and walking onto the beach is as easy as you could expect.

But nope, there were six SUV's on the beach in that 1km with every participant (some with 3 or 4) sitting in the vehicle just looking at the sea.

To make it worse, vehicular access is from each end of beach (about 2km all up) so now we have 4wd's jumping the kerb and driving directly over the dunes to get to the beach.

What used to be a relaxing walk is now a car park and it makes me sick to see how some people disrespect the environment.

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#2863190 7-Feb-2022 21:11

Forgot a password that I apparently didn't have saved in BitWarden. Clicked the "forgot password" link and get the following:

So now what? What has it been reset to? Where's the link to click?

Guess it'll be phone call in the morning...

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#2863434 8-Feb-2022 11:05

Watching people on YT with videos on how they cook something etc. which is of interest. But they capture it all on a cellphone using the phone's mic so the audio is very echoey and sometimes hard to understand.

If you are going to try to make money on YT from howto videos, how hard is it to use a lapel mic and possibly a wireless transmitter?

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#2863457 8-Feb-2022 11:22

lchiu7:

Watching people on YT with videos on how they cook something etc. which is of interest. But they capture it all on a cellphone using the phone's mic so the audio is very echoey and sometimes hard to understand.

If you are going to try to make money on YT from howto videos, how hard is it to use a lapel mic and possibly a wireless transmitter?

I watch a lot of cooking videos on YT and I'd say overall the quality is good to great, though you'd probably want to check out more established YT'rs' as those are the ones who can afford better gear and have perfected the sound and video and presentation. Guga Foods, Sous Vide Everything, Mad scientist BBQ are all good examples.

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#2863616 8-Feb-2022 15:08

TSB offers a virtual banker service where you make an appointment. They were offering one for today so last night I booked it, got an email saying that a confirmation would follow with the link to the call.

I’ve gotten up early so I can join the call and of course there’s no email from them. I’d like to say I’m surprised but I’m not. It’s pretty consistent with my other dealings with them, they really are hopeless. If it wasn’t a total pain to refinance I’d be gone.

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