Flat Bush, Auckland

Howick Int Boy's Uniform

Cameron from East Tamaki

Boy's Sch Shorts; Waist: 84; Good Condition

Price: $20

Rental unit/ granny flat/ room with ensuite

Jagon from Papatoetoe

Hi , looking for ensuite room or a unit or granny flat nearby Middlemore hospital.we r professional Indian couple working at Middlemore.Please message or text if u HV any.thx

Free Magazines - Cuisine, Foodtown etc

Italia from Clover Park

Box of magazines free to a good home, Cuisine, Foodtown etc. Good condition. Must be picked up today. Have held onto them for the longest time but am decluttering. Private message me if you are interested.

Free

$400 per week one bedroom unit for rent available now

Dena from Goodwood Heights

Hi All,

There’s a unit that’s available for rent immediately in Pakuranga.

Please see the photos below, features include-

- one bedroom
- fridge included… View moreHi All,

There’s a unit that’s available for rent immediately in Pakuranga.

Please see the photos below, features include-

- one bedroom
- fridge included
- vacuum cleaner included
- plenty of storage
- parking for one car in gated secure area with parking for one more car on the road
- no pets please
- move in cost 2 weeks bond and one week rent in advance
- would suit a young or retired couple, or single professional

If interested please contact Aref on 0272851742

PUBLIC MEETING ON FAMILY VIOLENCE

Lindsay Upton from Manukau East Council of Social Services (MECOSS)

Join Simeon Brown and special guest David White for a discussion on family violence and what we should be doing to combat it.

David White is the father of Helen Meads, who was murdered by her husband in 2009 after years of psychological and physical abuse. Since then, David has been campaigning … View moreJoin Simeon Brown and special guest David White for a discussion on family violence and what we should be doing to combat it.

David White is the father of Helen Meads, who was murdered by her husband in 2009 after years of psychological and physical abuse. Since then, David has been campaigning around the country to bring further awareness to New Zealand's family violence issues and has acted as a support person for other victims. He has also met with his daughter's murderer several times in an effort to move on for the sake of his grandchildren, so he is better placed than most to understand the significance of the problem.

As part of his visit to Pakuranga, David will be giving a presentation to tell his story and speak about what he is hoping to achieve for New Zealand. Family violence is far too common in our country, so please come along to hear what he has to say so we can tackle this problem as a community.

Light refreshments will be provided.

DAY & DATE: Friday, 3 May 2019
TIME: 1:00pm-2:00pm
VENUE:  Fencible Lounge, 25 Uxbridge Road, Howick
ENTRY:  No charge

Photographer for family portraits & events

Pankaj from Pankaj Bhakta Photography

Hi Neighbours,
I am photographer based in Manukau and available for birthday, anniversary, pre-wedding, family portrait or any other type of family event.
I take assignments for outdoor family photoshoot or I can come to your house to take family portraits.

Package : For any event, I can design … View moreHi Neighbours,
I am photographer based in Manukau and available for birthday, anniversary, pre-wedding, family portrait or any other type of family event.
I take assignments for outdoor family photoshoot or I can come to your house to take family portraits.

Package : For any event, I can design and work out a package that generally suit most of my clients.

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Mobile : 021 2481893

Regards,
Pankaj

Seminar: Racism in NZ

Veer from Flat Bush

27Th April, 3 - 5 pm
57 Hillside Road, Papatoetoe
(Speakers include: Don Brash, John Tamahere and others)

Article from Sir Michael Cullen

Maxim from Papatoetoe

➔ Below is the article from Sir Michael Cullen: "What really sunk CGT". He has come out swinging after losing the Capital Gains Tax (CGT) debate. It turned out he also did not like such a narrowly based CGT!

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Since Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced that the Labour-New … View more➔ Below is the article from Sir Michael Cullen: "What really sunk CGT". He has come out swinging after losing the Capital Gains Tax (CGT) debate. It turned out he also did not like such a narrowly based CGT!

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Since Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced that the Labour-New Zealand coalition had been unable to agree to implement any form of extended capital income taxation (and that while she was Prime Minister the matter was now dead) there has been a great deal of misinformed or ill-informed comment criticising these announcements.

The least justified of these has been the accusation that the Prime Minister showed a lack of leadership. She only had to stamp the ground, apparently, and Winston Peters and New Zealand First would meekly acquiesce in the passing of legislation to which they were opposed.

This shows a fundamental misunderstanding of how a true multiparty MMP government has to work. The three parties involved in the current Government are independent entities with their own policies and public constituencies. Maintaining such a government in a stable mode entails accepting precisely what happened in this case: if there is no agreement there can be no progress on the matter.

Comparisons that some have made with National pushing through partial privatisation of state-owned electricity companies in its first term is fatuous. National had an absolute majority in Parliament in combination with two parties who fully supported the policy and who, in any case, depended for their existence in Parliament on National's grace and favour.

Some of the factual commentary on the final decision rejecting any widening of capital income taxation also seems wide of the mark. New Zealand First did not commit at any stage, as far as I am aware, to support for a Capital Gains Tax (CGT) limited to rental property.

That is not surprising. Capital assets, such as rental property, are more likely to be held by older, pakeha New Zealanders than any other group. That is precisely New Zealand First's primary support base.

As I warned on many occasions, it was always going to be hard to get Peters and his colleagues over the line on a CGT. In any case, New Zealand First's current polling levels scarcely suggest it has political capital to burn.

It seems likely that the option of a CGT limited to rental property (as suggested by the minority on the Tax Working Group) was the position Labour was moving to before the final decision by New Zealand First was delivered.

In that regard I find myself strangely indebted to Peters as I would have found it difficult to welcome such a narrowly based CGT.

It is hard to understand why those renting out properties, a necessary part of the housing market, should be singled out from all others who benefit from the largely unearned increment derived from the almost inexorable rise in land prices. The exemption of the family home was a political necessity.

It is also true that when people sell their home they usually buy another, so it is less of a concession than appears on the face of it.

Nevertheless, the failure to introduce a broad-based tax on investment in land will only continue to encourage over-investment in land compared with other assets. The difficulties for young families buying their own home and the growing dominance of large corporates in gobbling up farmland will, therefore, not abate.

Federated Farmers has ended up supporting the interests of old farmers selling out to those corporates rather than young farmers trying to get on to the land – thus shrinking further its own membership base.

And a nation of elderly renters rather than homeowners will, in the future, have to face the fact that New Zealand Superannuation is not sufficient, by itself, to pay for rents in most of our population centres.

For these kinds of reasons I would not have been alarmed if the active business and Australasian equities parts of the proposals had been set aside, at least for the time being, as they had the greatest complexity and difficulty in application.

But to exempt holiday homes (some worth millions) and landed assets, other than that under the family home, would have left an unfair and far too limited a range of assets in the net.

The fact is that the vested interests opposed to any change were well organised, funded, not too careful with the truth at times and, of course, fully supported by a tribe of right-wing shock jocks on private radio who dominate our airwaves during the day.

To these stayed the spoils and so New Zealand remains almost the only rich democracy without a broad-based CGT.

National claims victory - though their over-the-top pronouncements were unlikely to have been the decisive factor. It will prove to be a Pyrrhic victory anyway: National hoped to ride the CGT horse to victory in 2020 but Peters has shot the horse out from under them. And Ardern's statement means that for National there is no hope of it being flogged back into life.

The real failure in the debate was the absence from it of all the groups who might be expected to support a fairer tax system. Only near the end did a group emerge, but it muddied the picture by throwing into the debate a whole set of other proposals as well.

Where were the social justice groups, the Salvation Army and the churches, the public sector unions clamouring for large wage increases, indeed all those who keep discovering new social crises in the social services left by the previous National government?

The fact is they largely only rode on to the scene after the battle was lost, while blaming the Government for losing it.

The liberal/left groups in New Zealand need to learn that overcoming vested interests in the pursuit of a fairer society requires at least the same level of dedication and application as those vested interests demonstrate. As a great American trade unionist once famously said, "Don't mourn, organise."

Where to now with no new tax base? All is not lost. The immediate need for the Government is to recognise the fact that the continued existence of a substantial boundary between what is called income on capital account and income on revenue account presents an ongoing challenge for the enforcement and integrity of the tax system.

Right now some of the same vested interests referred to above and their accountants are busy thinking up ways to move income out of the revenue account (and so taxed) and into the capital account (and so not taxed).

The Government and IRD need to come down hard on such artificial tax avoidance schemes. There needs to be more test cases taken to establish what are the current limits in the law on such behaviour. And there needs to be legislative changes to ensure that the more egregious examples are dealt to.

Peters, given his track record, can surely not object to this. The only issue is whether IRD is up to the job, having suffered some ill-thought-through restructuring which has seen the loss of some of its best and brightest.

If not, then the Government needs to address that as a matter of urgency as well.

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• Sir Michael Cullen is the former chairman of the Tax Working Group, set up to recommend to the Government changes to the tax system. Among its proposals was a Capital Gains Tax.

Auckland motorway closures - April 28- May 4

The Team from Neighbourly.co.nz

The NZ Transport Agency advises of the following closures for motorway improvements. Closures start at 9pm and finish at 5am, unless otherwise stated.

Closures include the Northern Motorway (SH1), Southern Motorway (SH1), Northwestern Motorway (Sh16), Upper Harbour Motorway (SH18), … View moreThe NZ Transport Agency advises of the following closures for motorway improvements. Closures start at 9pm and finish at 5am, unless otherwise stated.

Closures include the Northern Motorway (SH1), Southern Motorway (SH1), Northwestern Motorway (Sh16), Upper Harbour Motorway (SH18), Southwestern Motorway (SH20) and State Highway 2 (SH2).

More updates here.

6 seater Dining table

Sarbjit from Takanini

This is a NZ made table with NZ wood, the chairs are leather seated and fluffy. no scratches on the table and chair nearly as brand new. In perfect condition.

Price: $650

New Family Store opening in Glen Eden this Saturday!

Julia de Ruiter from The Salvation Army NZ

This Saturday we’re opening a new Family Store and there will be designer clothing! From Chanel, Pravda and Manolo Blahnik shoes, to race-day and wedding hats and high-end designer clothes, this is an opportunity not to be missed!

See you at the grand opening this Saturday 27 April at 273 West … View moreThis Saturday we’re opening a new Family Store and there will be designer clothing! From Chanel, Pravda and Manolo Blahnik shoes, to race-day and wedding hats and high-end designer clothes, this is an opportunity not to be missed!

See you at the grand opening this Saturday 27 April at 273 West Coast Road, Glen Eden, Auckland.

Ormiston Dance & Fitness Mon-Sat

Ally from Flat Bush

O.C Unleashed dance & fitness classes
From beginners to advance
We supply a variety of dance and fitness classes.
Also perform at local events recent eg. Waitangi day Manukau and Xmas Wonder Park. Past events performed monthly at the Ormiston Family Markets in 2018.

Our classes are for … View moreO.C Unleashed dance & fitness classes
From beginners to advance
We supply a variety of dance and fitness classes.
Also perform at local events recent eg. Waitangi day Manukau and Xmas Wonder Park. Past events performed monthly at the Ormiston Family Markets in 2018.

Our classes are for everyone
All ages and cultural backgrounds
and we have a friendly bunch of people
Come try a class today
First class FREE
U15 & Over 60 years FREE
No booking necessary

$5 per class after free trial and those other than the age groups stated above

Outdoor Fire!

Mitre 10 Mega Botany

Do you want to continue relaxing and entertaining outside this winter? Outdoor heating will keep you from getting too cold! We've got a huge range. Come in and take a look! #Mitre10MegaBotany

Mail centre theft leaves patients in the dark about appointments ahead of doctors strike

Hannah Martin Reporter from Eastern Courier

Home away from home for new Howick residents

Communications Team from Auckland Council

For 17 years the Pakuranga Chinese Association has been a lifeline for the increasing number of older Chinese migrants that make the Howick Local Board area home.