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**SPerfect** · 02-08-2019, 07:36 AM

Good one - lol

**Perry** · 02-08-2019, 10:30 AM

Originally Posted by Wayne

Agreed.
I was in England a month ago and we were talking history. I mentioned the Treaty in 1840 - the building I was staying in was built 5 years earlier and was as good as gold. We stayed in a small hotel in Delft that had been built in the 1600s.

I walked around the Tower of London complex - built in 1078. Before the discovery of the Americas!

We spent a few hours in Delft and had a wee joyride in the canals - mostly desperately in need of some cleaning The cars parked by the canals with the driver's door opening directly on to a drop into the canal would not do for the NZ Safety Gestapo - that's for sure.

**Perry** · 02-08-2019, 12:06 PM

**brokerman** · 13-08-2019, 11:31 AM

Before coming to NZ in 06 my house in West Sussex, England was started in 1735. In true Kiwi style it was not finished until 1755

**Perry** · 20-08-2019, 08:14 PM

Jacinda Ardern says New Zealanders are being ripped off over petrol
20 Aug 2019

Originally Posted by AA

Petrol tax
When you last bought petrol, 73.784 cents per litre was collected by the government (excluding GST). The GST added amounts to an extra 11 cents per litre "tax on a tax." [date uncertain - probably worse, now]

The Commical Commission's Report said that the level of taxes on fuel was "not a competition" matter, so not an issue for the commission.

Funny, that.

**Wayne** · 21-08-2019, 09:15 AM

Originally Posted by Perry

Jacinda Ardern says New Zealanders are being ripped off over petrol
20 Aug 2019

The Commical Commission's Report said that the level of taxes on fuel was "not a competition" matter, so not an issue for the commission.

Funny, that.

Tax and competition are two quite different things.
Currently competition wprks well where there is some (where there's Gull etc) but not elsewhere.
Nothing to do with tax.