Public Address | Cafe | OnPoint: P is for Potential https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/ en-us Copyright (c) 2026 Public Address Kyle Matthews https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=159783#post159783 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=159783#post159783

I left the bordello feeling a little cheated, I felt like I needed 12.5% more.

You'll be up in arms next year when you'll be feeling 15% shortchanged.

Prostitute's clients, they're going to bring the govt down I tell ya.

]]> Wed, 31 Mar 2010 11:08:21 +1300 Lyndon Hood https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=159644#post159644 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=159644#post159644

Prossies would have a much more steady and taxable income stream than writers & other artists.

So I take it 'prossies' isn't sort for 'prosodists'

]]> Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:28:55 +1300 Steve Barnes https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=159623#post159623 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=159623#post159623 I'm more impressed that the prostitutes were all fully compliant with their tax obligations, and that they registered for GST.I left the bordello feeling a little cheated, I felt like I needed 12.5% more. ]]> Tue, 30 Mar 2010 16:42:15 +1300 Matthew Poole https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=159332#post159332 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=159332#post159332

It's worth pointing out here that the IRD requires you to declare all your income, not just the legal stuff. If you check the helpsheet for the IR3 income form you'll see that 'illegal income' is specifically mentioned as one use for this form. I believe the IRD is prevented…

]]> Mon, 29 Mar 2010 11:26:46 +1300 Joe Wylie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=159330#post159330 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=159330#post159330

All those stories about Elton John spending 10 grand a week on flowers make more sense when you know that "Flowers for performer" is the standard entertainment industry accounting euphemism for money spent on drugs.

And for those who have the money, but aren't necessarily users, drugs must surely offer…

]]> Mon, 29 Mar 2010 10:50:10 +1300 JackElder https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=159327#post159327 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=159327#post159327

Now that it's legal I'm sure more of them are paying their taxes,

It's worth pointing out here that the IRD requires you to declare all your income, not just the legal stuff. If you check the helpsheet for the IR3 income form you'll see that 'illegal income' is specifically…

]]> Mon, 29 Mar 2010 10:33:58 +1300 Matthew Poole https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=159324#post159324 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=159324#post159324

Still do know some prostitutes that never paid their taxes in the IRD sense

Hence the tongue-in-cheek comment about the fictional prostitutes being all compliant with their GST. Now that it's legal I'm sure more of them are paying their taxes, but I doubt it's anywhere near all of them.…

]]> Mon, 29 Mar 2010 10:11:49 +1300 Sofie Bribiesca https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=159318#post159318 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=159318#post159318

So it's not even a teensy bit middle class to assume they're all "ladies"?

Yep, I'll blame too much sun on the boat yesterday so shouldn't have posted that anyway, so sorry to all the middle class people and all the other ones. Still do know some prostitutes that never…

]]> Mon, 29 Mar 2010 09:13:17 +1300 Just thinking https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=159311#post159311 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=159311#post159311 Late again and I'm not even at work.

A man I know who is about to turn 60 is off down the mines again, after promising himself never again. It's pretty rough down the mines and close calls are frequent.

The pension was never intended for his type. They tend…

]]> Sun, 28 Mar 2010 23:29:28 +1300 Joe Wylie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=159304#post159304 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=159304#post159304

Get your middle class attitude over the existence of ladies of the night.

So it's not even a teensy bit middle class to assume they're all "ladies"?

]]> Sun, 28 Mar 2010 21:11:23 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=159300#post159300 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=159300#post159300 Sun, 28 Mar 2010 20:03:00 +1300 Sam F https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=159298#post159298 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=159298#post159298 Sun, 28 Mar 2010 19:58:41 +1300 Sofie Bribiesca https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=159297#post159297 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=159297#post159297

I'm more impressed that the prostitutes were all fully compliant with their tax obligations, and that they registered for GST. But that's just me.

And me. There's something quite good about that.

Is there just?
Let's face it, whilst this existed for ever, did anyone care about their taxes?. I…

]]> Sun, 28 Mar 2010 19:34:16 +1300 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=159290#post159290 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=159290#post159290

I'm more impressed that the prostitutes were all fully compliant with their tax obligations, and that they registered for GST. But that's just me.

And me. There's something quite good about that.

]]> Sun, 28 Mar 2010 18:15:32 +1300 Islander https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=159288#post159288 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=159288#post159288 But but but – we've always been fringedwelling outsider ne'erdowells, right? That's why we* -along with gypsies tramps an thieves- are Not Quite Part Of Real Society Dear. Legalising us would do dire things to our creative energies...though we still have to pay taxes.

*Naturally, I'm not including the academic…

]]> Sun, 28 Mar 2010 18:00:21 +1300 Kyle Matthews https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=159277#post159277 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=159277#post159277

Geez, they dont publish one for writers (or other artists as far as I know.)
The true social order becomes apparent-

No doubt they will once your profession becomes legalised.

]]> Sun, 28 Mar 2010 15:59:18 +1300 Stewart https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=159267#post159267 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=159267#post159267 Nah, its economics innit? Prossies would have a much more steady and taxable income stream than writers & other artists. No point going to the expense of publishng a tax-guide if it only results in a tiny dribble of tax revenue.

]]> Sun, 28 Mar 2010 09:55:57 +1300 Islander https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=159260#post159260 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=159260#post159260 Geez, they dont publish one for writers (or other artists as far as I know.)
The true social order becomes apparent-

]]> Sat, 27 Mar 2010 19:34:09 +1300 Paul Litterick https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=159259#post159259 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=159259#post159259 guide to help sex workers meet their tax obligations. ]]> Sat, 27 Mar 2010 19:31:46 +1300 Steve Barnes https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=159256#post159256 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=159256#post159256 I'm more impressed that the prostitutes were all fully compliant with their tax obligations, and that they registered for GST. But that's just me.I recall there used to be a section on the UK IRD tax return form referring to "Professional Bodies to Whom Fees Have Been Paid" which were,… ]]> Sat, 27 Mar 2010 15:11:18 +1300 Matthew Poole https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=159254#post159254 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=159254#post159254

Between 2000 and 2009 he made profits of $4.6 million and returned $510,000 to the Crown through GST on what he spent on prostitutes.

(pulls out handy divide by nine calculator) he spent it ALL on prostitutes? I'm impressed

I'm more impressed that the prostitutes were all fully compliant with…

]]> Sat, 27 Mar 2010 13:49:57 +1300 Sofie Bribiesca https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=159245#post159245 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=159245#post159245

Bish Tamaki could franchise out a chain
of leathery sub-urbane DesTinny houses...
...and Methadust Tabernackersyards!
and of course there'll still be PE at school...

Of course! Private Education
Wont somebody think of the little Pe nuts,
who live in the big House with Mrs Pe body.
being primed for Prostitution.…

]]> Sat, 27 Mar 2010 10:58:35 +1300 Paul Campbell https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=159112#post159112 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=159112#post159112

Between 2000 and 2009 he made profits of $4.6 million and returned $510,000 to the Crown through GST on what he spent on prostitutes.

(pulls out handy divide by nine calculator) he spent it ALL on prostitutes? I'm impressed – he's been giving ASB middle management a run for their…

]]> Fri, 26 Mar 2010 11:28:14 +1300 Rich Lock https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=159082#post159082 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=159082#post159082

No need to see a doctor we have a special Island for people like you....

YAY!

When does the plane leave?

]]> Fri, 26 Mar 2010 09:05:00 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=159071#post159071 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=159071#post159071 further fisked elsewhere) verbatim, many rational foreigners would naturally think it was satire. ]]> Thu, 25 Mar 2010 23:50:03 +1300 Rich of Observationz https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=159055#post159055 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=159055#post159055 Thu, 25 Mar 2010 20:03:45 +1300 Sam F https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=159054#post159054 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=159054#post159054 Thu, 25 Mar 2010 19:54:26 +1300 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=159022#post159022 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=159022#post159022 P could assume a religious role in society,
Bish Tamaki could franchise out a chain
of leathery sub-urbane DesTinny houses...
...and Methadust Tabernackersyards!
and of course there'll still be PE at school...

]]> Thu, 25 Mar 2010 16:04:21 +1300 Kirsten Brethouwer https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=159013#post159013 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=159013#post159013 Thu, 25 Mar 2010 14:57:14 +1300 81stcolumn https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=158992#post158992 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=158992#post158992

Does worrying about this make me some sort of commie-socialist treehugger? Should I see a doctor?

No need to see a doctor we have a special Island for people like you....

]]> Thu, 25 Mar 2010 13:46:43 +1300 Keith Ng https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=158982#post158982 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=158982#post158982

Wouldn't even need to change the tourism slogan...

LOLZ. I feel a photoshop coming on...

]]> Thu, 25 Mar 2010 13:29:56 +1300 Keith Ng https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=158981#post158981 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=158981#post158981

The irony is while trying to be funny about mining, you make a valid point about drug legalisation, and the role of the black market economy.

No, really, I didn't! My point was that random measures like "divide product value by land area/number of employees" and one-sided revenue analyses are…

]]> Thu, 25 Mar 2010 13:26:35 +1300 Keith Ng https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=158980#post158980 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=158980#post158980

All we need now is David Haywood to outline how the Reserve Bank can get involved.

It's very true. I overlooked the monetary impact of this proposal. Naturally, it'll only be good.

]]> Thu, 25 Mar 2010 13:24:16 +1300 Keith Ng https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=158977#post158977 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=158977#post158977

Let’s not go insinuating that NZ is anything more than a primary produce basket…

I am, after all, ambitious for New Zealand.

]]> Thu, 25 Mar 2010 13:22:00 +1300 Lyndon Hood https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=158963#post158963 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=158963#post158963 Thu, 25 Mar 2010 11:27:35 +1300 Tom Semmens https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=158962#post158962 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=158962#post158962 Thu, 25 Mar 2010 11:21:41 +1300 Rich Lock https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=158959#post158959 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=158959#post158959

Wouldn't even need to change the tourism slogan...

Now that did make me chortle.

]]> Thu, 25 Mar 2010 11:07:49 +1300 Sam F https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=158958#post158958 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=158958#post158958 Thu, 25 Mar 2010 11:01:03 +1300 Andre Alessi https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=158956#post158956 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=158956#post158956 I think we're all overlooking the potential cash cow in the room:

P tourism.

Big spending foreigners from all over will come to marvel at our efficient and environmentally friendly P labs, buying locally produced baggies and glass pipes, talk with real actual P users about all the wonderful things…

]]> Thu, 25 Mar 2010 10:59:28 +1300 MikeE https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=158955#post158955 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=158955#post158955 The irony is while trying to be funny about mining, you make a valid point about drug legalisation, and the role of the black market economy.

One wonders whether that point (look I made a P reference) is lost on the OP tho..

]]> Thu, 25 Mar 2010 10:56:34 +1300 Ian MacKay https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=158952#post158952 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=158952#post158952 Thu, 25 Mar 2010 10:54:03 +1300 Grace Dalley https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=158944#post158944 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=158944#post158944 Keith, you made me choke on my Milo, that is very funny!

If we converted all our dairy farms into P labs, we could buy China and pay America to deliver it while wearing a tutu.

ROTFL! Choke, choke.

All we need now is David Haywood to outline how the…

]]> Thu, 25 Mar 2010 10:14:06 +1300 Martin Roberts https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=158938#post158938 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=158938#post158938

feadin' fightin and rythmatics

Hip-hop meets P?

]]> Thu, 25 Mar 2010 09:33:56 +1300 Che Tibby https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=158937#post158937 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=158937#post158937 not sure if kids on P need a creche so much as a large paddock with high fences.

and Xbox.

]]> Thu, 25 Mar 2010 09:29:02 +1300 Hilary Stace https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=158935#post158935 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=158935#post158935 Thu, 25 Mar 2010 09:27:14 +1300 Lyndon Hood https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=158933#post158933 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=158933#post158933 Thu, 25 Mar 2010 09:11:46 +1300 Tom Semmens https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=158931#post158931 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=158931#post158931

Does worrying about this make me some sort of commie-socialist treehugger?

The government has plans for you as well – you'll be prevented from working anywhere but in the mining industry. As minister Bennett said on this matter yesterday "Sure, its a vindictive piece of discrimination but I think that…

]]> Thu, 25 Mar 2010 09:05:03 +1300 Rich Lock https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=158930#post158930 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=158930#post158930 I've heard that P-manufacture produces a lot of toxic byproducts that are bad for the environment.

Does worrying about this make me some sort of commie-socialist treehugger? Should I see a doctor?

]]> Thu, 25 Mar 2010 09:01:09 +1300 Kit McLean https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=158926#post158926 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=158926#post158926 Thu, 25 Mar 2010 08:14:39 +1300 Martin Lindberg https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=158925#post158925 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=158925#post158925 Don't forget that burnt-out P-labs are a great tourist attraction.

I wish I was totally joking, but J Brownlee said on radio this morning that mines have great value as tourist attractions. Can't find the link, but it really sounded like Sean Plunket (?) was taking the piss. Brownlee not…

]]> Thu, 25 Mar 2010 08:06:00 +1300 Paul Brislen https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=158924#post158924 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=158924#post158924 Oooh, I like it!

Plus it means we can move those surplus science teachers out of the schools (where they're just getting in the way now we focus on readin' rightin and rythmatic) and back in the lab where they can be productive members of society!

Like it. Like it…

]]> Thu, 25 Mar 2010 07:46:04 +1300 Public Address https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=158923#post158923 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/onpoint-p-is-for-potential/?p=158923#post158923 Discussion from blog post.

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