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Shawn D. Gale is Assistant Professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the University of Virginia Health System. His clinical activities include neuropsychological assessment and consultation of various neuropathlogical conditions, consultation with inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation treatment teams, and in designing appropriate treatment plans and monitoring treatment outcome. His research interests include neuroimaging and clinical outcome as it relates to the neuropathological, neurocognitive, and neurobehavioral effects of CNS injury and disease.
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James P. Kelly is Associate Professor of Clinical Neurology at Northwestern University and Medical Director of the Chicago Neurological Institute. He received the 1997 James Brady Award from the Brain Injury Association of Illinois. Dr. Kelly helped develop severity and return-to-play criteria for the American Academy of Neurology.
Donald T. Kirkendall is Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Orthopedics at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Physical Education, Exercise & Sports Sciences. He is a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine and serves on the Editorial Board for the Soccer Journal of the National Soccer Coaches Association of America. His research interest is in the physiology of exercise.
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I can just imagine our young essayist (one David McMillan, apparently) sitting down to write this festering pile of SEO-baiting crap. Creativity and vim oozing from his very pores, he clicks on his Google News tab for a spritz of inspiration. Here is a heinous crime committed in Aurora, Colorado, he gasps. And, lo! Here is a completely unrelated, utterly dissimilar heinous crime committed in State College, Pennsylvania.
THERE MUST BE SOME CONNECTION, he thinks. Only David McMillan, though, has the intellectual capability — nay, the courage! — to make it.
And so we're faced with what is actually one of the worst things I have ever read, so staggeringly terrible in its desperate attempt to connect two wholly unrelated events that I could barely get through it.
Let's observe:
What makes a man walk into a crowded theater and shoot unsuspecting moviegoers?
What makes a college football coach protect a pedophile and child rapist?
These two questions might seem unrelated. Indeed, some will surely find the idea of discussing a domestic terrorist like James Holmes in the same breadth as legendary football coach Joe Paterno unfair, inflammatory, perhaps even malicious.
Just stop right there, sweetie. Just close your laptop and go have a nice long think about your life and your choices, because you have actually managed to refute the point of your essay in the first three sentences of said essay.
We should insert a disclaimer here: the good people of FNTC think the situation at Penn State is terrible, that what Paterno did was reprehensible and that everyone should stop martyrizing him immediately.
But the fact remains: Joe Paterno did not walk into a movie theater, clad in armor, armed to the teeth, and shoot 71 people.
Let me reiterate: I'm not equating the two cases, nor are Holmes's and Paterno's crimes on par with each other, legally or ethically.
Oh, great. I'm really glad you cleared that up for us and yet are SOMEHOW STILL CONTINUING TO EQUATE THE TWO CASES. JESUS CHRIST.
We continue on: blah blah cover-up blah blah banality of evil blah blah lack of empathy blah. And now it's time for your regularly scheduled Shakespeare reference, because someone paid attention for about 10 minutes in AP English Lit.
In his lectures on Shakespeare's Othello, the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge argued that what spurs Iago to destroy Othello is nothing more or less than "motiveless malignity." That to me is still the best definition of pure evil I know of. Some forms of evil defy post-hoc rationalization. Some people don't need motives to inflict cruelty. Some men just want to watch the world burn.
I want to print out several thousand copies of this essay for the pleasure of watching them all burn.
I believe that Joe Paterno was mostly a good man. A good husband, a loving father, an outstanding coach. But unfortunately (for himself and others), he made a series of terrible decisions that showed a profound lack of empathy for Sandusky's victims — a lack of empathy that made him an accomplice to evil.
Whether these decisions should define Paterno's legacy is up for debate. (Sadly for Paterno's fans, there's a good chance they will. To quote Julius Caesar: "The evil that men do lives after them;/ The good is oft interred with their bones."
Please, please, PLEASE, enough with the Shakespeare. This is like reading the Tumblr bio of a precocious but unpopular 15-year-old who reblogs that "Date a Girl Who Reads" post like 20 times a day.
Also, I love the fact that Paterno is one of two evils in the headline but "mostly a good man" in the actual essay.
Here's the thing: there ARE things to be said about the banality of evil, and what happens when people look the other way, and how evil is not always the man who runs into a theater and kills twelve people. But these are obvious truths — truths we've known since fucking Adolf Eichmann said he was just following orders.
At the end of the day, holding up two high-profile cases to point out that one is evil and, hey, this one is ALSO evil is designed for one thing and one thing only: pageviews.
And one of them is mine. Eeeesh.
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More than 3,000 Bronx building superintendents, janitors and rubbish handlers voted unanimously Wednesday night to approve a strike if a borough's landlords destroy to accommodate their final for a new agreement subsequent month.
The building workers, members of Local 32BJ of a Service Employees International Union, don't wish to go on strike, pronounced Angel Ortega, a super during a 300-apartment commune in Riverdale.
But a kinship is against to a new agreement due by a Bronx Realty Advisory Board, that represents building owners. That offer would need workers to assistance compensate for their health caring and would barter their pensions for a 401(k) assets plan.
A strike would close down upkeep work during 1,000 condo, commune and unit buildings in a Bronx, inspiring scarcely 240,000 tenants.
"We don't wish to interrupt life for anybody," pronounced Ortega, 44, a super for 30 years and a son of a longtime South Bronx super. "But a backs are on a wall."
William Schur, boss of a BRAB and a Bronx building owner, has pronounced a organisation is "hopeful that a inheritor agreement will be reached before Mar 15," when a stream agreement expires.
Last week, a workers deserted a board's agreement offer and are seeking for medium salary increases.
On average, workers acquire $15 an hour in a South Bronx and $17 in Riverdale.
"Undercutting a livelihoods of building workers not usually hurts their families and a communities though could repudiate hundreds of thousands of tenants a services they count on," pronounced Kyle Bragg, clamp boss of 32BJ.
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Last spring, an eleventh-hour agreement between 32BJ and a Realty Advisory Board, a building owners organisation apart from a BRAB, saved 3,200 buildings in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island from a harmful strike.


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Season 6 of HBO's True Blood kicked off Sunday night with the rise of "Billith". You remember last season ended with Bill drinking the entire vile of Lilith's blood. Well, the blood has given him cray cray (translation = Crazy) powers. Sookie actually stakes Bill which should kill him, and Bill pulls it out like a splinter and lives!
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The Tyranny of Shoulds
By OKSANA TASHAKOVA (SELF-HELP GUIDE) 13 May 2011
Our list of must-dos limit our own potential, damage our relationships with others, and cause us to unfairly judge and condemn
You should smile. You should lose weight. You should be more productive. You should be married by now. How do you feel when someone tells you that you should do something? Don't you feel resentful? Doesn't something shut down within you?
That's because "shoulds" reflect objective values. They're based on stereotypes or expectations about behaviour and qualities that come from parents, schools, religions, or society. They're about what is considered desirable and about how far you fall from that mark.
What most of us don't recognise is how much we beat ourselves up with unconscious "shoulds". We've incorporated these other views through general exposure without ever questioning whether we truly want or believe in those values and priorities.
"Shoulds" imply that you are wrong, that you're not enough, that you're failing — and that kind of anxiety, frustration and self-hate lead to procrastination and hopelessness.
Psychotherapist Karen Horney named this process "the tyranny of the should." She believed that we create a vision of the ideal self that isn't based on our true selves or potentialities and then spend our lives trying to reach this level of perfection with a series of should and should-nots.
"Always" and "never" are also words that signify such black and white thinking. These words are signs of absolute and inflexible thinking that can have disastrous results.
Not only do such beliefs limit your own potential, they damage your relationships with others, causing you to unfairly judge and condemn.
"Shoulds" are rigid rules with no room for error and they're often introjected rather than owned. When you own a rule it is because you have evaluated it and decided whether it makes sense for you and your life. You consciously decide to live your life by the value or judgment inherent in the "should." An introjected rule is one you've passively absorbed without reviewing its merit.
"Shoulds" are often perfectionistic, unrealistic and unhealthy; "shoulds" diminish your life rather than enhance it.
The next time you feel anxious, frustrated, upset or depressed; question what's really going on. With a little work, you'll uncover the "should" or inflexible belief that has led to the feeling. Then you can begin to change it.
One technique that can be used to free you from a prison of "shoulds" is to change "I should" or "I must" to "I would prefer" or "I want to" or "I could." This gives you choice and flexibility and removes condemnation and that reflexive resistance. Think about the effect and potential in changing "I should lose weight" to "I could exercise more" or "I would like to weigh less."
Another technique involves questioning the rule and its value to you and your life. Does this "should" reflect who you might really want to become or does it limit your ability and self-esteem instead?
"Shoulds" are often difficult to displace because we've operated according to them for so long.
A mantra that contradicts the "should" whenever it arises can help you to slowly undo that automatic kind of thinking.
Helpful mantras include a reminder of what need was served by the "should" and why it doesn't work.
For example: "I should never make mistakes" is a common tyrannical "should." Every time you begin to berate yourself for a mistake, try and replace that train of thinking with something to the effect of: "My mother made me feel bad for making mistakes but mistakes lead to learning and they don't make me a bad person."
Identifying our "shoulds" often requires the help of a coach or therapist when they're deeply ingrained and unconscious.
We often can't see out of the rut of that worn way of thinking and it helps for someone else to point out when we're inflicting absolute and inflexible rules upon ourselves. This can help you learn to recognise these "shoulds" more readily on your own and combat them in order to reach your real potential.
(Oksana is a life coach based in Dubai who helps people work out their life purpose and plan. She's also an expert in stress management, addictions & phobias, relationships, communication skills and emotional pain management. Visit her website for more details: www.design lifecoach.com)


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Barbara Walters just announced her "Most Fascinating Person of 2007"--J.K. Rowling. And Time Magazine is close to announcing their Person of the Year. Not being one to miss an opportunity, Mom•Logic is asking our own power Mom friends for their choice for 2007's Mom•Logic Mom of the Year.
Holly Robinson Peete, actress and Mom:
"Michelle Obama! She gets kids to school in the morning, is on the road campaigning during the day, and makes it a priority to tuck in kids at night. Hillary is a close second, but has no small children at home..."
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Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor--for her pioneering career in breaking the glass ceiling for women lawyers. Her role as a wife and mother during the same period is indicative of a smart, strong, organized, caring and effective woman. My own mom exemplifies all of these qualities as well. Although not a lawyer, she gave me the confidence to believe that I could become a judge myself and a mom as well. I would prefer to nominate her for her selflessness and unconditional love--but she would tell me to go with Sandra Day O'Connor--typical of her selflessness.
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is the Orbitron gonna get pimped?
I had no idea the Galpin guys (or, at least, Beau Boeckmann) were such Ed Roth enthusiasts. Not only did Boeckmann just buy the Orbitron and plans to restore it, but the Galpin collection also includes Roth's Rotar, Globe Hopper and Great Speckled Bird. Press release follows:
VAN NUYS, Calif. (March, 2008) – A lost artifact from the pinnacle of the Custom era has been found, and is now in California for a complete and faithful restoration. Ed "Big Daddy" Roth's Orbitron, a far-out bubble-topped show car built in 1964 and lost shortly thereafter, was recently uncovered in northern Mexico, serving as a makeshift dumpster in front of an adult bookshop! Michael Lightbourn – nicknamed "the West Texas Scout" for his ability to find abandoned automotive treasures – spotted and rescued the fiberglass-bodied hot rod, which is missing its original acrylic bubble top and front end but is otherwise fairly complete, down to the original engine, chrome Astro wheels and most of its bodywork.
Beau Boeckmann of Galpin Motors acquired the car shortly after its recovery from Mexico, and plans to completely restore the car to its original condition at Galpin Auto Sports (G.A.S.) with input from Roth experts and employees that were part of the original build.
"Being a huge fan of Big Daddy Roth, it's a great privilege and honor, not only to own this car, but to bring it back to its former glory," Boeckmann says. "Our goal is to make sure this piece of automotive history receives the accurate restoration it deserves."
Once the car is restored to its former glory, Orbitron will join other Ed Roth cars in the Galpin Collection, including the Rotar (Roth Air Car) that was built in 1962 and actually hovered, the Globe Hopper three wheeled custom, The Great Speckled Bird chopper, as well as Roth's daily driver Honda CVCC, which is covered in pinstriping and paint from his days as a sign painter at Knott's Berry Farm. Other Galpin Kustom Kulture artifacts include a replica of Grandpa Munster's Dragula, a '52 Lincoln Lido built by George "King of the Kustomizers" Barris, Kenneth "Von Dutch" Howard's 1970 Toad, hand-made Von Dutch art, tools and firearms, and an XK140 Jaguar that was customized by "the Da Vinci of the garage."
the top 10 Hemmings blog posts of 2007
Though we've been at this whole blogging thing since January of last year, the end of 2007 marks our first full year of posting, and if we haven't presented you with something awesome having to do with vintage/collector cars every day this year, then we've certainly tried. So, just as we did last year, we've compiled the top Hemmings blog posts of the year, based on the number of pageviews recorded for each post.
#10 – Fast, anti-furious: Supra-LeMans. The Hemmings Auto blogs made a new friend this year in Ralf Becker and his excellent German site, Chromjuwelen. In a lot of ways, his automotive tastes jive with ours, so it's no surprise that he convinced Atari to give him a 1972 Pontiac LeMans, into which he stuffed a 1991 Toyota Supra's 3.0-liter turbocharged six-cylinder and six-speed manual transmission. David Traver Adolphus translated the project into English for us and even made sure the LeMans made it into the pages of Hemmings Motor News.
#9 – 28 Days of Ferrari: Day IV. Through April and May of this year DTA presented 28 different Ferraris from throughout the marque's history, all in a lead-up to RM's Ferrari auction at Maranello on May 20. The star of both the auction and the series ended up being the 1962 Le Mans-winning, Phil Hill/Olivier Gendebien-driven, Fantuzzi-bodied 1962 Ferrari 330 TRI/LM Testa Rossa Spyder, chassis #0808, engine #0808.
#8 – Good destiny introduces trying! American cars coming home from Japan. Another DTA joint, he got wind of a substantial (200-car strong) auction of classic and collectible American cars in the land of the Rising Sun. His pleas to cover the auction in person fell on deaf travel budget planners, however.
#7 – Big Oil conspiracy! 376 mpg Opel uncovered! Sometimes the best stories come from readers. In this case, a reader tipped us off about a 1959 Opel Rekord P1 Caravan that recently surfaced from the depths of the Talladega Speedway museum and that appears to have been used by Shell to research technology that produced 376 miles per gallon. We later came across a Fiat 500 used in the same test as well as a Fiero that Smokey Yunick modified with the same technology.
#6 – who is Ron Pratte? It never fails: Whenever SPEED Channel re-runs the Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale auctions from the last couple of years, viewers frantically google Ron Pratte, the private millionaire who bought some of the most high-profile cars at those auctions. We dug a little deeper to answer the question that was on our minds as well.
#5 – oh, so that's where I left it… Ed Roth's Orbitron found. All props to the H.A.M.B., where I first saw this, but as the story made the rounds on the Internet over August and September, a lot of links eventually pointed back at our post about the discovery of one of Roth's lesser known show cars – being used as a dumpster outside an adult bookstore in Mexico. We hear it is undergoing a full restoration.
#4 – this is why we run stolen car alerts. Happy endings don't come too often when a collector car is stolen, but the story of Don Lavender's 1967 Camaro is a bit different, thanks to the get-out-the-word effort of the Gilmore Car Museum.
#3 – So that's where my old beer cans went: inside the Trabant factory. This year marked a number of anniversaries for significant collector cars, but the anniversary that sparked the most attention among the mainstream press was that of the Trabant's, and we helped celebrate that history when DTA found some behind-the-scenes video of the Trabant factory. Unfortunately, the copyright Nazis over at YouTube have since ganked the videos. Also unfortunately, the lowrider Trabant post didn't garner as much attention.
#2 – Skoda Capri 205 woody-not the good kind. Couldn't get enough Eastern European automotive bizarreness? Neither could DTA, and neither could a good portion of the Internet, as we saw when DTA's post about a Prague-based Skoda with unique wheels. A lot of commenters could relate seeing it in the streets, but we never got an adequate explanation.
#1 – almost free garage heat – just drink a lot of soda. If we were basing this list on the number of comments a post generated, this post would still win. If we were basing this list on the quality of comments a post generated, this post would be all-time champion. Funny enough, it's probably also the most off-topic post of the year, but anytime you tell people how they can build something for cheap that will lessen their utility bills, you're sure to get a good response. I promise that version 2.0 is on its way. Just need to empty a couple hundred more soda cans.
We've got a lot more in store for 2008, so keep it tuned here.
BTW, Mysterion still not found
Following up on yesterday's news of the Orbitron find, Ryan over at the Jalopy Journal shares his maybe-possibly-near-encounter with the Mysterion.
Roth built the Mysterion in 1963 with twin Thunderbird 406 V-8s, backed by twin Ford C-6 automatic transmissions and twin 1948 Ford banjo rear axles. As the story goes, after a year on the show circuit, the car was scheduled to head back to Roth's shop in the fall of 1964, but only bits and pieces arrived; the majority of the car, including the unique drivetrain, had gone mysteriously missing. And if you're sure you saw it at the 2005 Detroit Autorama, that was simply Dave Shuten's very convincing clone/replica.
Ryan's the kind of guy who knows (and ain't telling) the whereabouts of James Dean's Little Bastard, so if he don't know where the Mysterion's hiding, then likely nobody does.
oh, so that's where I left it… Ed Roth's Orbitron found
Actually, were this 1995, I wouldn't have expected to find the Orbitron anywhere else, but since the explosion in Roth-mania since the man's death six years ago, the fact that it served as a trash bin outside of an adult bookstore in Mexico is pretty surprising, along with the fact that nobody recognized it until just recently. Of course, before that, it was used in a carnival for several years.
Looking at the pictures, it's mighty rough, missing a lot of essential pieces, including the nosecone and the bubble top. But considering the length some guys have gone to not just restore, but re-create some Roth vehicles lately, I imagine this one will be hitting the shows again soon.
I bet cleaning the trash out of the car must have been a trip.


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Carson shot 8-of-17 from the field and 12-of-16 at the free-throw line for ASU (16-5, 5-3 Pac-12), which has won three in a row. Jermaine Marshall netted 22 points for the visitors, while Shaquielle McKissic scored 12.
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The Wyoming Cowboys are looking to freshen up the fan experience at homes games and they have decided to do that with a new field design for the 2013 season. Images of the new field design surfaced on Tuesday and it was met with mixed reactions.
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While there is very little you can do to impress with the horrible yellow and brown color scheme that Wyoming uses, but the new field design is actually pretty impressive and unique. I have always been a fan of the light and dark green alternating every five-yards and the endzone design looks great with the mountains coming from the goal line and the two-tone font in the endzone.
For what I was expecting from Wyoming, this has exceeded my imagination.
It's not quite up there with some of the better fields in college football, but Wyoming's definitely stands out and will catch your attention. It is just a shame one of their main colors is brown.
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Online spending eroding NZ tax base more than multinational avoidance - English
"Why is the criticism always about the purchasers importing goods bought overseas? The finger is never pointed at the retailers who are selling products in NZ at much higher prices"Featured comment
The growing worldwide digital economy is putting pressure on New Zealand's tax base, though online retail is a bigger threat than multinational avoidance, according to Finance Minister Bill English.
New Zealand is part of a multilateral effort to clamp down on income shifting by the likes of web-based giants Google and Facebook, who have garnered international attention for their complicated tax structures, English told Parliament's finance and expenditure committee.
A bigger threat to New Zealand's tax base is the increasing use of online retail spending, which avoids the country's 15 percent goods and services tax, he said. What made both issues murky was that traditional jurisdictions were muddied by the questions over geographical and digital boundaries.
"The most urgent issue is not the large end of town, it's the small end of town, it's hard-working mums and dads spending on the internet," English told the committee. "We have to resolve both of those issues."
Retailers have come under pressure from online sales, with apparel in particular struggling to compete, and have called for the tax department to be more stringent in collecting goods and services tax on New Zealanders' purchases from overseas websites.
The government raked in a smaller than expected tax take of $23.88 billion in the five months ended Nov. 30, due to lower corporate and GST tax revenue.
Treasury officials are picking accelerating tax revenue growth as an expanding labour market provides more income tax, and as rising wages encourage households to ramp up spending, fuelling the GST take, according to the half-year economic and fiscal update.
Speaking directly after the minister, Treasury chief economist Girol Karacaoglu told the committee New Zealand's economy was facing strong immediate growth, though that would temper to a more moderate pace in the coming years.
He warned against profligate government spending, which would put upwards pressure on interest rates that are already set to rise and an elevated currency.
"We might be a rock star, but we don't want to be a one-hit wonder," Karacaoglu said.
One of the measures the Treasury put forward to foster the country's tradable sector was in growing international connections across all policy areas, including education, infrastructure, immigration and overseas investment, he said.
"Everything we're looking at attempts to connect the New Zealand economy better with the rest of the world," Karacaoglu said.
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Amazon is 20 years old this year. The revenue authorities of the world have just realised on-line retailing is a challenge under existing international tax laws ? Well done!
That is not correct. When I lived in America in 2000-2001, it was already exercising the minds of State governments as Amazon and other online retailers were not charging state sales tax on online purchases. I'm sure they have done something about that by now, but the issues were already well flagged back then. And they remain exactly the same as the ones we face today.
In the US isn't it the case that where you buy from an out of state retailer that you have to declare sales tax in your income tax returns?
That was my point. There is a difference excercising the mind and taking some sort of action. The revenue authorities have been far too slow in reacting to the inevitable - more so in the international tax area than local state taxes. In terms of sales tax it is my understanding that sales tax is not levied on a destination base (i.e. only sales from Amazon to purchasers in certain states are subject to sales tax) presumably where Amazon has a presence not on a global US basis but I could be wrong on that.
Most online shopping is not done to avoid the 15% GST, and even then it is avoidable only for smaller purchases. Maybe reduce the limit a little,and police it more vigorously, also tax apparel brought back by travellers, currently a significant tax rort by the wealthy. We don't want to become like Britain where draconian taxes and service charges are imposed even on Xmas presents from overseas. Likewise some of the companies complaining most vocifereously about competition have tired stock and retailing practices and really need to think carefully why anyone would risk getting distressed stock from Hong Kong rather than shop at their stores..
Not sure that would work, unless you plan to record what every single traveller is wearing and what is in their suitcase when they leave. That would be the only way of proving what new clothing is being brought in to the country.
Don't worry Billy boy, agenda 21 and the new boss of the world Helen will sort it all out.
I was making comments about this 5 years ago.
The other side of the coin I have noticed is how many small "mum & pop" type businesses are setting up Paypal accounts and selling all their goods without GST even though they are local.
These type of businesses use to operate out of TradeMe but lately they are all over Facebook and doing well.
I know the IRD worked with TradeMe some years back to educate sellers on when they were obligated to pay tax.... but I can't see Facebook taking the time to do the same considering they are already giving them the finger.
If I buy from an oversea business online do they not pay GST/Vat and income tax in the country of sale? Does the imposition of GST not tax me twice?
They do not pay tax in their own country on exported goods.
I buy my shirts out of a UK website. The price includes UK VAT. Still about 1/2 the price of buying local. Even if NZ GST was imposed I would still buy from the same source.
I wonder if the respective tax regimes have investigated how many retailers actually do charge GST/VAT for online purchases that are then shipped overseas, and are pocketing the tax element of the cost as extra margin in the background?
The attraction of a sales tax, such as GST, is that it can easily be levied at the point of sale and is relatively fair for everyone. Enter opportunities for cross border transactions, or ones where there is not the ease of levy such as on the internet, and the broad appeal of the sales tax diminishes.
Of course, it is always a guess how much the tax base is impacted, though at a macro level it can probably be estimated reasonably accurately. Too bad the article didn't clarify how much moola we are talking about here.
The question is about fairness: create a system that has a tax payment mechanism, and allow alongside one that does not - it builds in unfairness to certain businesses and consumers alike.
Is it time to consider a different tax all together? Is there one that is more fair than the GST? Is it better to have stop-gap measures to close loopholes, or to begin again?
The value-add nature of GST ensures that leakage through the black economy is minimised to the tax on the 'value added' - so if a chippie does some cash work for you he hopefully pays GST on the supplies he buys for your job - and the same will apply to those mom and pop businesses on FaceBook. The difference with the purchases from offshore is that those suppliers give the NZ taxman nothing on their inputs, so the leakage is more significant.
I love the simplicity of NZ's GST system. It imposes a high cost on business, but at least the system is straight forward. The transaction cost of capturing internet transactions would probably exceed the revenue that would be generated.
I suggest a self-declaration on our income tax forms. It would ask for the amount that you purchased on the internet on which you didn't pay GST, and you would be levied 15% of that amount. You have to back up your number with your credit-card accounts. The onus would be on the tax payer to make an accurate declaration.
Oh yes, the other thing I like for simplicity is NZ's personal income tax system, which my proposal would destroy.
Clearly some hard thinking is needed.
What a load of crap ... mutli-nationals are just HARDER to extract money from... poor joe public is far easier :/ sad sad sad
Fairfax paid no tax at all last year on revenue of A$2.01 billion. or the IRD is battling APN (NZ Herald) for $48 million tax....and English wants us to believe mum and dad are thrashing multinationals with billion dollar revenue. Either we are in deep doo doo trouble as he has real competency issues, or he is a liar and running some sort of smart ego driven agenda.
If the Government stopped gifting away assets, or plugged the massive mineral and petroleum royalty sham, or actually checked valuations like Solid Energy for accuracy, or gifted billions continually under the Treaty, or stopped finance sector and insurance multinationals defrauding consumers, then it might actually have billions in the coffers. But no - that's too hard when it can just dig into the taxpayer pocket with little accountability.
Really the way NZ Government operates in NZ is bizarre, but not as bizarre as the way the people sit back and take it. Sheep follow sheep in a small farming South Pacific Island....and so the multinationals follow each other with the directors of banks and other big swollen corporate operators pulling multimillion dollar compensations.
When are they going to go after the real tax dodgers? The ones that can actually afford to pay their taxes but avoid doing so.....
The usual bash the rich (successful?) by implication. The top 10% of taxpayers already pay around 45% of all income tax, but Labour/Greens say that is not a fair share and want more.
The top 10% actually pay 71% of all income tax. More interesting perhaps is that the top 17% of earners pay 97% of all income tax.
Thats because the rich earn most of the income
Quite right Lindsay. In fact, the top 12% of households pay 76% of net income tax, since virtually everyone earning under $60K pays no tax since they get it all back from the Government via various handouts including WFF.
RachNZ has some warped view that these 12% somehow get away with not paying tax, and do it deliberately. A view often held by those who expect others to live for their benefit.
Yes - several Unions come to mind.
Supposedly the MWU was up to 7 years late in filing their annual financials. Last I heard, they were "only" 5 years late.
And most are so unclear and obfuscated, the Registrar recently set-up an entirely new section for them to be classified under and to be held to...
...and the unions here in NZ and in Aussie finance their respective Labour Party's. And just look at all the corruption the authorities are discovering over there between union leaders who become Labour Party MP's...
Birds of a feather?
>"The most urgent issue is not the large end of town, it's the small end of town, it's hard-working mums and dads spending on the internet." - Bill English
That has to be the most stereotypically *expected* statement English could possibly make (by the large segment of the public that sees these bods as pandering to corporate and American interests).
Where are his figures breaking down how much tax is missed out on from large corporate tax avoidance versus people doing a percentage of their sub-$500 item shopping online? The article notes that revenue from corporate and GST are both lower than expected.
Why jump to the conclusion he needs to clamp down on online retail spending, but not worry about big companies? (Implying lost GST from small purchases online is a more major than corporate avoidance.)
>"Treasury officials are picking accelerating tax revenue growth as an expanding labour market provides more income tax, and as rising wages encourage households to ramp up spending..."
Ah, so unemployment and low spending are actually the big factors?
I genuinely expected better from English. This is thin.
Where is your evidence that there is in fact any tax avoidance The Horse? You just saying that there is, does not make it so. If you took time to examine their accounts, and you can bet that the IRD have done so to the nth degree, you would find that they are kosher. The IRD climb all over transfer pricing and other income shifting mechanisms like a bad rash. You should believe less of the nonsense that comes from the Labour and Green Parties and do some research of your own.
Does this mean Bill can't multi-task. What's wrong with catching both groups. Or is this just another way for National to screw the little bloke with more tax?
Why is the criticism always about the purchasers importing goods bought overseas?
The finger is never pointed at the retailers who are selling inferior products in New Zealand compared to overseas retailers and at much higher prices than overseas prices.
Maybe if New Zealand retailers concentrated on raising the quality of their goods being sold and / or lowering their prices there would be less goods imported from overseas.
NZ retailers need to stop complaining and start competing within the global marketplace which now exists.
Agreed. We live in a global economy. Online shopping overseas will only increase. What makes me shop online is not the potential GST savings (which customs can get off you anyway) but the range, quality and price/discounts. No surprise that apparel retail here is struggling. Nor companies that import products from overseas, add no value but slap on 200% to the purchase price.
Well don't forget even retailers have to pay for that big fat mortgage they took out on that grossly overvalued house they had to buy in Auckland because everybody else has been running around like a cat chasing its tail bidding up the price of housing with borrowed money. And don't forget there's the loan on the SVU, and all the overseas buying trips they have to do each year. It all has to be paid for.
My wife wanted a Swarovski necklace for Christmas this year. Had a look in the shop and it was $300; went home and looked up online - I could buy it in the states for US$90. So. I bought it online and had it shipped to a forwarder, who posted it here. Total cost was less than half of the NZ price.
I'm not doing that to avoid GST; I'm doing it to avoid being ripped off by shops in NZ.
Not really the point though. It's about tax gathering not whether local sellers are better or worse than overseas sources. GST may well become a dinosaur tax. Time to look at a transaction tax.
I agree with Anonymous. NZ retailers fleece us. Overpriced and outdated product lines.
The politicians can and will always find ways to raise taxes....so they can spend what they haven't even earned yet. But we can atleast choose between the bad and the worse. But retailers?
I was not an online shopper. Now I will be,
Absoultley agree. I just bought a nexus 7 for NZ$70 less then I can get if for in NZ even if I had paid GST on it. Same story with clothing, shoes, etc. Too many retailers here have a model based on high margins and low volume and that is just not going to cut it anymore.
You missed the point.
National/IRD dont care if you buy overseas.
However, if you consumer it in NZ, then they want to collect GST on it.
It isn't about protecting industries or jobs, it is about collection the correct amount of tax. HOwever, for administraion purposes, there is an exemption from GST where the amount imported is less than ~$400.
I really find it hard to believe that Multi National tax avoidance is less than GST losses. How about facts to back up this statement?!
GST is charged at the border now for items over a certain value - customs intercepts imported goods. You have to have a trade-off between the cost of collection and the amount of tax collected this way. Lets be sensible here Bill English!
What a sick joke English is. What games they play to hit the tax payer, rather than the multinationals who make large donations to political parties.
Since almost all online purchases are paid for by a credit card, get the banks (who already have our IRD numbers) to levy it on the transaction amount at the time of sale. If it's in error, i.e., a transaction that doesn't attract GST, e.g., a charitable donation, allow people to reclaim it from IRD.
New Zealanders have to stop with the greedy grasping bludging mentality that everybody else must pay tax, just not me. We have schools, hospitals, prisons, roads, and Labour's election bribes to pay for.
Because online spending is bad?
Govt. spending is the problem, up another 1.6% this year, not private spending.
Leave us alone already! How much more do you want you grabbing scoundrels?!!
As soon as I read the headline and I knew this was going to be full of false economy nonsense..A Rockstar whose consumer confidence reputation is based on soaring Credit card debt also reported today is likely to be a fake one hit wonder too.
' "The most urgent issue is not the large end of town, it's the small end of town, it's hard-working mums and dads spending on the internet," English told the committee. "We have to resolve both of those issues." '
'The government raked in a smaller than expected tax take of $23.88 billion in the five months ended Nov. 30, due to *LOWER CORPORATE* and GST, *TAX REVENUE*.'
I have capitalised and asterixed the obvious ISSUE for those who were obviously crap at math at school or didn't get to interpret political 'irony'.
Expectation forecasting based on fictional figures from 'nowhere' was what eventually caught out Enron Merrill Lynch etc too.
And some are calling Cunliffe 'tricky'? Please!!
My household are active online shoppers. We all try to buy goods in NZ first but (example Webber BBQ or Foreign Label clothes) when NZ retailers often charge double foreign prices and (think furniture) have no stock and limited range - we buy offshore. We pay GST, Duty and a $40 processing fee on every import. I just today paid nz$200 duty, fees and taxes on a nz$800 suit - but still under half price of nz retail. Some NZ retail has adapted (UK cars no longer work as NZ prices have re-aligned) but there are lots of slow adapters still trying to maintain stupid margins.
I find it hard to believe that mom and pop online sales outstrip the sales of Amazon, Google, Facebook to name just three multinational online providers operating in NZ.
What is easy to believe is that attacking the small end of town is easier than taking on the big boys. Come on Bill grow a pair.
National want mum n dad locals to setup small businesses to sell goods even if for a while they are exempt or avoid GST. Some will succeed and grow and go on to pay their share, at least the entrepreneur is adding value and hopefully not on any benefits.
Then we have the Govt looking to charge GST on smaller and smaller purchases from outside NZ rather than focusing on corporates such as Amazon, Google and Apple. A possible reason is every purchaser that decides because of the added inconvenience to pay GST buys local supports companies in NZ that do pay tax and then there is the extra GST from the continuing imports. The population needs to get their head around making NZ Inc a better place to live and shop in, because failure to keep businesses and Govt viable within reasonable bounds will result in a NZ Inc that is not a fit place to live.
Perhaps we should be concentrating on the taxpayer waste,( Hones South Africa junket) and the election bribes,(paid parental leave, WFF,etc.
Of course bankruptcy stops the waste in the competitive private world but government has endless access to funds.
So it's official is it, there is in fact no way to get ahead... as soon as the economy improves interest rates go up, possibly costing the average mortgage holder hundreds of extra dollars a fortnight (good luck at getting a pay rise that size to offset that) and as soon as cheaper goods are available in a global economy (a global economy) promoted by the likes of English there's talk of shutting it down... see a pattern emerging here? folks there is no getting ahead, the well paid end of town will not allow their lifestyles to be undermined one iota - give me a recession any day!
I am living in the UK at the moment as we have a daughter and 2 grandchildren there. I do nearly all my shopping online. I buy 85% of my groceries. I use Amazon a large amount - but note I use Amazon.co.uk and pay full 20% VAT on everything - so maybe Governments have to lobby and work with organisations like amazon to have a NZ presence and add GST - Amazon.co.nz - they may have to do some horse trading but there is no way back from online shopping.
Equally in the UK I tend to buy clothes online but tend to use shops that also have a bricks and Mortar presence. The main reason for that is that I am old tight head prop gone to seed and most of the bricks and mortars shops like marks and sparks don't carry my size in the shops but do at their online store. e.g. going to Scotland for a clan gathering I needed two shirts when to Marks and Sparks - nothing in my size, so went online found the size ordered them and they sent them to their Edinburgh store to collect once I had trained up from London
So Online is great - governments have to work within the system - not fight it. There is still a place for bricks and Mortar stores - i.e. it is a social day out but they need to target what their audience does need and not compete so much with the online people and stop whinging and get on and make the requisite changes.
I am a cyclist. I buy components online. I recently purchased a pair of wheels. the wheels were $1200 including delivery & import charges. The same wheels will cost me $2400 from retailers in NZ. NZ is dreaming if it thinks it can maintain a corner shop market charging the consumer corner shop prices locally.
Let's do a quick analysis for a real-world problem for us men here in Auckland.
Say you are looking for a genuine leather black Oxford shoe to wear to a formal function (ie. a dress shoe to go with your suit). This shoe would easily cost you above NZD150 for a standard quality shoe purchased from an Auckland retail store. Try looking for it online, you'll get one really nice shoe for USD65 delivered to your Auckland home.
Where would you buy your shoe?
Can we look forward to the day when the headline says," Political Decisions erode government spending".
Few object tax payments for use in the necessities of life but citizens are furious when taxes are used for more and more social programmes that are pure election bribes.
Aren't the Mums and Dads buying online (from where ever they like NZ or overseas) simply practicing the free trade model that English and Co keep promulgating?
Its great hearing how the bike wheels are cheaper, so are the shoes and so are many other tings. We need Govt to even the playing field so that GST is levied on as much consumer spending as possible to spread the load.
Stop thinking just about your own individual purchase and start thinking, do we want Govt to cut spending and borrowing, if so by how much, and what do you intend to do about the social fabric of the country. Any Government whether Left Right Center or any other flavour requires $s to fund its policies, the more wide reaching, the flatter in nature and the smaller in quantum taxes are the better. Every exception creates discord and unrest. Get on with it Bill, pull whatever levers necessary to even the GST playing field.
Some freight / courier company will come up with a solution to gather the tax and pass it to the IRD, because when the do the parcels will get through on time. Amazon can only ship 1 pair of shoes or two bike wheels to NZ in very short time because they avoid clearing customs inspections, they avoid duty collection, they don't process GST, unlike all other importers of commercial goods who have to.
I do use on line buying and do not begrudge the Govt GST, somehow the mix of price, quality, local presence, time to deliver will be optimized and Brick n Mortar, Click n Deliver, Click on line n wait, will all coexist with NZ based purchaser paying GST on all but the most irrelevant items.
Re Bike wheels: I paid customs duty & a blanket charge for bio security (?) and still the wheels came all the way from Belfast for only $1200 not the $2400 I could have collected them from Christchurch retail outlets for. The problem here in NZ is that a NZ wholesaler shifts less product than a typical European or American retailer. The wholesale prices here are accordingly higher than overseas retail & then retailers are trying to add margin on top. Online shopping has effectively burst the protective bubble.
Simply do not understand the IRD being so full-on re grabbing GST from online purchasing. WHY is the IRD not going after the under the table tradespeople and others who are absolutely RORTING the system and the professionals who claim so much to minimize their tax its not funny. At a party over Xmas a dentist was proud of the fact he claimed private school fees as" lab fees". We middle class employees are being taken for a ride. We are the suckers paying most of the tax !