The recent legalization of prostitution (which does not affect me at all and so do not have a strong opinion on) and the boom of the internet has led to the following situation:

The leading (near monopoly) website for online escort advertising is called newzealandgirls.co.nz. They have around 350 girls across the Country advertising at any one time- most of them like to pay cash for the service (anywhere between $70 and $220/week- usually in the higher range). That is revenue of $52,500 by estimate. I would suggest that given the cash nature of the industry and the desire of many of the girls to keep their business unrecorded- that around 50% of this revenue is not declared to IRD (I could be wrong of course)- a huge loss to tax payers.

Now tax a solo mum who advertises on that site like “escort Inka” (in the Auckland section) – one of the Countries highest earning and prolific sex workers (she charges $300/hour and $2,500 overnight). On the occasions I have met with Inka, she is usually booked up for the present day and is quiet willing to boast that she is busy as hell and being flown around the Country and doing at least 4-5 bookings per day, if not flying to Aussie to spend 7 nights with wealthy businessmen and being paid $2,500 for each night she is there (flying business class). This women finds the this industry glamorous and does not hesitate to tell one how much money she makes.

Inka is also drawing a solo mum’s benefit from WINZ for over $300 week and has done since she was around 20 years old (she is also happy to tell customers her daughter is currently 7 years old.

The first time I met her she was staying at the 5 Star Hyatt Hotel in Auckland City in a luxury, 180 degree harbour view 9th floor room with spa bath etc which she was happy to declare was costing her $300/night (if she paid 10 nights at a time. The room was equipped with a safe for her to store her hordes of cash and she was happy to skite that she was making an easy $1,500 before businessmen etc finished work for the day and went back to their families.

One can also discover that she has her own website link on her ad on the NZG website, and on that website she declares she is making a porn film soon and will be flying around the world making more porn films soon. Glamorous indeed if you are into that sort of thing.

This particular solo mum- who is funded by us tax payers to the tune of $300 plus per week, is not registered as self employed and does not declare one cent of her $5,000 plus weekly cash income to IRD and instead draws the DPB from the Government.

She is only one of the highest earners in this industry- there are many more and a few that earn even more.
Few would argue that the internet is great for online services and many argue that legalization of the sex trade is a good thing also- but the blind attitude towards this now booming and very publically viewable tax fraud going on in this industry is quite simply revolting.

I estimate around 80% of the girls advertising on newzealandgirls.co.nz are also receiving WINZ benefits (many of them are receiving solo mum benefits)- the other 20% of girls on that website are simply not allowed to receive one because they are overseas visitors and students not allowed to work here anyway.

The loss in fraudulently received WINZ benefits as well as the loss in tax revenue from undeclared income I would estimate would be enough to enable this Government to reverse their GST hike for most of Auckland and keep the income tax cuts on income.

What a great place to live NZ is- if you are a business person who can afford to drop $2,500 per night on some company and entertainment, or if you are a hooker on the DPB who has been gifted of late with the rise of the internet, legalization of your chosen trade and the pathetically blind eye of our social welfare and IRD departments who it seems have never noticed the huge amount of gold jewellery on her hands when she visits her case manager to ask for more money, or the passport records showing extensive overseas travel on her own, or the secondary bank account with a visa debit card detailing flights and 5 star hotels all over the Country.

For the rest of us- everything is now 2.5% more expensive -so hunker down.

Here’s a wee simple one that doesn’t hurt. I used to complain about people who left litter at the beach, now I just pick up all my own shit and at least one piece of shit I find there. If everyone did that there would be no litter. Problem solved. Eventually the morons who litter would get the idea and THEN you will find attitudes changing. Lead by example and keep Government out of it as much as possible. They are mostly useless.

That way WINZ etc will have to be more diligent in who receives the handouts.

I think a major part of the problem is public attitude. Not speaking up enough about it. And especially “because everyone else does it”. Everyone else should keep making bloody clear that it is OUR money being wasted, OUR taxes that pay for it and it is US that is being ripped off.

On a positive note from your post you did point out – “Just because doing crap may be easy to do” – this is exactly the problem.

We have a MASSIVE amount of waste of our taxpayers dollars, both in what it is paid out for and the people who pay it out on our behalf. I blame the bureaucrats who give it out more than the thieves who rip it off. They don’t give a fuck, it isn’t their money. Don’t get me wrong, I understand why they do it. They just want to get through their shitty days in their shitty jobs dealing with shitty people to get their money so they can pay their bills.

More to the point I blame this lily livered, soft cock Government for not doing anything about it. Who can blame a shiny arsed pen pusher for taking the money when you have an employer who doesn’t seem to give a fuck that he has too many employees and that a large percentage of them are useless bastards doing fuck all but passing the time for eight hours a day?

Sorry, let me get that right, ultimate blame lies with us, the soft cock public who repeatedly let successive Governments take the piss out of us when they never do what they said they would prior to election.

If National don’t do something decisive this year I am opting out of the system. I think a sickness benefit for the depression I am suffering from watching a complete lack of politic will or honesty and for the severe headaches brought on by beating my head of a wall in disbelief at some of the shit that is allowed to go on. Then grow some weed, bake some meth, get a pit bull/staffie cross, a solo mum with a state house and a counselor. That should take the pressure off.

Who can blame the fella for ripping off the system when it’s so easy to do?

??Is this a New Zealand disease, it’s ok to rip off whatever you can?

Just because doing crap may be easy to do doesn’t excuse it.

Yes buying shares has risk. What you seem to want is for there to be both high returns and no risk in the residential property market.

What should happen is high return = high risk. Low risk venture like government backed saving schemes and residential proporty should have low returns. That is basis of the free market –

As a Democratic Socialist I see good reason for government control over markets. However this does not extend to propping up people who own houses they don’t live in.

haha bloody brilliant. Do they have the sickness benefit in China and India?

Yet my wife who works and pays shit loads of tax has to buy herself an insulin pump and the high ongoing monthly costs because the Govt says there is no money to fund them. Bullshit.

It appears more and more as time goes by and the little prick thinks that the poll results have made him PM for life that he can betray us and get away with it.

I’ve got a message for you John-Boy Key tack your colours to the the mory flag pole at Waitangi at your peril and kiss goodbye to your easy ride.

I and many others will go back to our real home that at the moment is represented by ACT not National.

If a company issues new shares and builds a factory the company has invested. The people who have bought the shares has merely saved (at an unknown return that may indeed be negative)

Houses in New Zealand are
1. overvalued
2. do not result (normally) in production (unless someone operates a small business or P-Lab out of them)
3. take away money from the productive sector

Filthy polluting bastard, crucifixion awaits you too if you are ever caught smoking at the beach again.

When Neville and the noddies add a land tax (already being paid as rates, will just increase rates) and whack the filthy capitalist bastards with capital gains tax and double taxation on any business that involves renting out property not to mention increasing GST. Who the fuck will pay.

Yes you got it right, give that man the coconut, the poor bastard at the bottom of the heap AKA “The Consumer”.

When Neville and the noddies start getting the picture that we voted them in to do the opposite to the Hag and reduce the ever increasing greed of the stinking socialist assholes who have governed (sic) this sad little shit hole for nine years and give us our tax cuts instead of looking for more to buy off their new fatarse greedy playmates the aparthied party then we might keep them in power for a bit longer.

I predict Goofy, Trev and Little boy in 2011 cause I won’t be voting for the slimy little smiling feller/double dipper next time around.