TV1 spin on harrassed IRD employee's protest car crash action, New Zealand Aug 2009

http://cryptome.org/0001/nz-tax-charade.htm

http://indymedia.org.nz/article/77588/dave-drives-work


I'm a long time Inland Revenue NZ employee of 20 years I have many frustrations with incompetent managers, absolute waste of taxpayer money, illiterate team leaders ( 'waist bin' in team minutes is not a typo, it's a spelling mistake), a workplace bully, Carol Buckenham, who has had extraordinary protection, even by my union delegates, failed payroll systems, failing tools, and last but not least a tax system which is designed to overdeduct tax, but which the IRD adverts sold as 'you never have to file a tax return again' allowing a company to set up a very succesful business giving people back the money the government hoped they wouldn't claim ...

There's also penalising of low income taxpayers but almost no scrutiny of huge refunds going out the door -- my job was to check refunds of over $100,000 and I was told on Friday to do this at the rate of 9 per hour, if that was the work given to me.

In this case it was me the payroll system failed to pay -- twice -- and they had no idea why and asked me to get a bank statement to prove I wasn't paid as they thought I had been. Complaints got me nowhere, requests for information got me nowhere and finally four official information requests (our FOIA equivalent) resulted in either no information, or on the last day an extension could be requested in a well-defined form, simply a statement that I'd be charged NZ$38 per half hour, without specifying what would be provided, when, or even whether they'd search all night for non-existent info.

Basically the New Zealand Inland Revenue Department believes it's above the law.

Our code of conduct states in the preamble that the actions of the department should be able to withstand the closest public scrutiny -- however Inland Revenue doesn't open itself to any scrutiny. In an effort to draw attention to this and a major abuse of process ...

... I drove my car through the Christchurch NZ Inland Revenue's closed front entrance, through two sets of glass doors, through the staff only door, then backed out into the foyer to wait for police.

You sure as hell wouldn't know it from Google or the papers. It was on Saturday morning and it's now Monday night.

I filmed an interview, across from the patched up hole, done by our local television station CTV. I popped in there today because I'm out on bail of NZ$500. In fact today they forgot to serve a tresspass order so I walked inside, showed my tag, and almost got access through to the staff only area. This is symptomatic of the place -- I've dealt with stupidity by pointing it out when and where it occurs and can give you megabytes of examples because I just BCC'd myself in on the responses. Walking out with taxpayer information (which I haven't done -- I have absolute integrity with regard to taxpayers) would be as simple as photographing the terminal the information is on.

Some of this is comic, some serious, but all worthy of public discussion. However the NZ Inland Revenue while driving staff harder for less, doesn't permit any discussion. Discussion at team meetings is cut off if the team leader can even understand it.

This all sounds surreal, but I've played music, my job supported that, and part of their action screwed with my music. So one group have added a webpage where we intend to put everything up relating to the crash.

A sample page is at:

http://theaxemen.wordpress.com/2009/08/17/mick-elborado-the-car-crash-set/

Dave Theobald. (aka Mick Elborrado)

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• Inland Revenue NZ
• Dave Theobald
• Mick Elborrado
• Dave Theobold
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[todd1400]

@philthy122 im not to sure if the IRD is a gove department as its never been signed into existance by the govenor general. there for making it another scam to rid you and i of our worthless fiat currency

[HardlineAthiest]

I'd be careful who you protest against, the Global Elite Banking Cartel is a Criminal Syndicate of Bankers known to use extortion.

Murder is the most common method of problem solving, which includes taking YOU and your family's life if they determine you to be an obstacle circumventing their sadistic grab for power and bottomless financial greed.

It mystifies the mind these evil men who enslave our world aren't being categorically assassinated for their vile acts of terror against honest people.

[philthy122]

Good on you.

IRD harassed family members of mine for years; froze bank accounts; basically took control of possible sale of their house. They defended their position for 3 long years until it went to court and the IRD we found at fault and were ordered to pay back money with interest, that took another year to be sorted.

They are not above the law; IRD is a govt. department, they work for us.

[MZarkov]

Sorry Dave/Mick, but you were a bit naive if you thought you were going to get a fair portrayal on TVNZ. To quote George Orwell "Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper". Multiply that by 1000 when the medium is TV. You must have noticed this yourself - think of any event where you had insider knowledge, and how unsatisfactory the media reports were.

You courted media attention with your actions, now you're finding out it's a two-edged sword.