NZ Budget increases departure and arrival taxes
May 24, 2015, 9:39 pm
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May 27, 2015, 4:08 pm
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good questions
. But then there's the core question; do we actually need to improve biosecurity?
This move might just be a shift to user-pays, allowing central government to lower funding of biosecurity services and therefore not amounting to any improvement at all. We shall wait and see, I guess!
This move might just be a shift to user-pays, allowing central government to lower funding of biosecurity services and therefore not amounting to any improvement at all. We shall wait and see, I guess!
I watched a TV program where Bio Security busted a German national and fined her $400 for not declaring her dream catcher! Is that really the threat?
I also have a query for Kiwis: What assurances do we have that the additional funding will, in fact, be dedicated to biosecurity? Is this a dedicated tax?
(In Canada, we have all sorts of 9/11 and security fees which go straight into gov't coffers i.e. they have nothing to do with improving security!)
May 27, 2015, 4:14 pm
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I also have a query for Kiwis: What assurances do we have that the additional funding will, in fact, be dedicated to biosecurity? Is this a dedicated tax?
(In Canada, we have all sorts of 9/11 and security fees which go straight into gov't coffers i.e. they have nothing to do with improving security!)
(In Canada, we have all sorts of 9/11 and security fees which go straight into gov't coffers i.e. they have nothing to do with improving security!)
May 27, 2015, 6:58 pm
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I also have a query for Kiwis: What assurances do we have that the additional funding will, in fact, be dedicated to biosecurity? Is this a dedicated tax?
(In Canada, we have all sorts of 9/11 and security fees which go straight into gov't coffers i.e. they have nothing to do with improving security!)
(In Canada, we have all sorts of 9/11 and security fees which go straight into gov't coffers i.e. they have nothing to do with improving security!)
You then have to add Policy Advice, static at around 2.5 million, development and implementation
Government accounting is complicated, but money goes into the Crown Consolidated fund then allocated out via appropriations.
There is a line for new Capital Injections across the whole of the Vote for Primary Industires but you cannot track it down to a specific project.
You will see that the combined appropriation for biosecurity has only increased by 7.6 million (171.3 to 178.9) p 70 or 40 on the pdf. So either the increased revenue and expense have not been recognised (possible as Cabinet approvals not yet given) or that this is in fact a revenue substitution from general taxation to a user fee revenue (probable allowing general revenue to be allocated elsewhere or make up funding shortfall eg deficit).