Get rid of Secondary Tax
Secondary Tax basically penalises people for having two or more jobs, trying to work hard and get ahead. Most of the people I know who have two or more jobs are low income people who are already struggling to provide for their families. Why should they be further penalised?
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Hadley Pettigrew commented 2016-11-29 10:30:26 +1300For those of you who think Secondary tax penalises you, go to the ird website, signup and file a tax return. If you have been paying secondary tax, it is highly likely the IRD will give you some money back, this could be quite a lot. They have to charge a secondary tax as your second employer won’t know what you earn with your other job, it is a lot better to get money back at the end of the year, than be lumped with a massive tax bill instead.
Link for your information:
http://www.ird.govt.nz/online-services/service-name/services-i/online-ir3-2016.html?id=homepage
PS, don’t sign up to the likes of woohoo tax returns, they are a con, you can do it all online with IRD for the same amount of effort! -
Jeanette Garnett commented 2016-11-28 21:42:41 +1300Secondary tax penalises people who are trying to move ahead by taking a second job, especially many women who try to improve their financial position once children no longer need supervision. I have worked with women in an evening phone centre who were working that second job to pay for a child’s private education, a father who had got behind in childcare payments, and I have worked multiple jobs several times myself. When trying to pay off a student loan for example and then I was hit for double repayments of that too. Its a huge disincentive for lower paid workers.
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Jeanette Garnett tagged this with important 2016-11-28 21:42:40 +1300
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Robert Murray commented 2016-11-26 12:54:16 +1300I’m reasonably certain that secondary tax doesn’t penalise people – perhaps you could provide an example.
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Tim O’Donnell commented 2016-11-25 15:37:23 +1300If you simplify the tax system to a single % and remove all loopholes/exemptions this won’t be needed. We must find a way to collect tax so all pay & all pay the same amount.
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Tim O’Donnell tagged this with essential 2016-11-25 15:37:23 +1300
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Hadley Pettigrew commented 2016-11-25 14:31:35 +1300You can claim back excess tax at the end of the tax year already, secondary tax is at that rate so you don’t have a chance of owing more tax in the new tax year.
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Hadley Pettigrew tagged this with dislike 2016-11-25 14:31:34 +1300
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