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Letters: Ihumātao, Laura Fergusson Trust, savings and police chases 21 Dec, 2020 04:00 PM 9 minutes to read NZ Herald Righting a wrong National and Act have strongly denounced the Government s purchase of the contested land at Ihumātao. They say that it will open up a can of worms for more Treaty claims on, private, land in the future. This piece of land was confiscated by the British settler government from the original owners in 1863, despite that iwi not being in rebellion against the Crown at the time. Mr Seymour and Mr Mitchell, would do well to ponder that fact, while pontificating about the need to respect the sanctity of private property. ....
Letters: Tax-deductible mortgages, Kumeu development, vaccine priorities and Trelise Cooper 15 Dec, 2020 04:00 PM 9 minutes to read To assist young first home buyers, should their mortgage interest be deductible against tax payable on wages? Photo / File To assist young first home buyers, should their mortgage interest be deductible against tax payable on wages? Photo / File NZ Herald Flipping the housing paradox If my granddaughter purchased a home to live in she would have to pay all mortgage interest, insurance, rates, plus repairs and maintenance costs out of her tax-paid earnings with no tax write-offs. Yet as a investor, under current tax laws I can purchase a home, rent it to her at a market rent then claim the mortgage interest plus all the above-listed outgoings as tax-deductible expenses against this rent, thus showing no profit or tax payable. Thanks to a past multimillionaire Prime Minister cancelling gift duty, I can ....