RIP the economy (and any privacy you ever had). This
National government is generating far more red tape than the previous Labour
one ever did. To capture a minor subset of transactions, every single
commercial (and private) transaction, financial (where your bank is looking to
report you to police if irregularities are found), property, et al, are being
delayed, and weighed done by cost on cost on cost on penalty of the snitch society. God I
want out.
I’m
trying to get out of all independent trusteeships at the moment, because with
wanting to live in the (gloriously isolated) Mahau Sound for six months, the
physical requirements of witnessing, et al, involved on, for example, property transactions, with our Kafka-esqe money
laundering legislation are too convoluted and physically onerous. (Due to these
same dopey laws, a friend has spent three hours recently trying to open a child’s
bank account. And I remember reading someone on Twitter trying to do that and giving up.)
How
much money is Judith Collins’ monstrous Money
Laundering and Financing of Terrorism Act costing our economy? I’m starting to
think it’ll be catching up to tax compliance.
Anyway,
so today I go to file the first of this month’s annual company (client) returns
to be told on filing all returns from this point I have to have directors birth
dates (okay) and place of birth (what the fuck!). Does any office reading this
blog hold client place of birth? Because the caution screens have said I won't be able to file returns without this information I've not been through to see if place of birth is simply country, or province and country; but the point remains unchanged. Plus the error screen says place of birth, not country of birth.
[Update: after completing my annual return, it's province/town and country. There's a lot of purple language in this office this afternoon.
Ultimately, here was my problem: changes to the Companies Act ... and so it goes, on and on.]
[Update: after completing my annual return, it's province/town and country. There's a lot of purple language in this office this afternoon.
Ultimately, here was my problem: changes to the Companies Act ... and so it goes, on and on.]
So:
Un-fucking-believable @CompaniesOffice
I now have to file place and date of birth for directors of all returns I file
annually? Whose idea?
— Mark Hubbard (@MarkHubbard33) July
20, 2015
@CompaniesOffice
Date of birth I largely keep on file, but place of birth means I now have to
email every single company director I file 4
— Mark Hubbard
(@MarkHubbard33) July
20, 2015
@CompaniesOffice
... which is a mammoth and bullshit task. Needless to say I'll be late
on some returns. Is this ruddy money laundering ...
— Mark
Hubbard (@MarkHubbard33) July
20, 2015
@CompaniesOffice
... nonsense again @JudithCollinsMP
@amyadamsMP
—
Mark Hubbard (@MarkHubbard33) July
20, 2015
@CompaniesOffice
@JudithCollinsMP
@amyadamsMP
In fact I've got to file my own company return this month: I
don't know where I was ruddy born
— Mark Hubbard
(@MarkHubbard33) July
20, 2015
Seriously,
RIP the economy (and any privacy you ever had). This National government is generating far more red tape than the previous Labour one ever did. To capture a minor subset of transactions, every single commercial (and private) transaction, financial (where your bank is looking to report you to police if irregularities are found), property, et al, are being delayed, and weighed done by cost on cost on cost on penalty of the snitch society. God I want
out.
Do not question the state, Mark. It does not make mistakes.
ReplyDeleteI was listening to a podcast about King James the first; there was an idea, still in force it seems, that the King can do no wrong; if there was a error it was his advisers who took the blame.
This was an elegant fiction that suited all parties (except for the Monarch's advisers who had to take the fall). Over time of course this idea made more sense when the Monarch became a figurehead but I think some bureaucrats have the mistaken idea that the state is infallible;
Of course, this is what James's son Charles the first thought and Cromwell cut his head off.
Now, those were the days!
Hah. The money laundering legislation is a massive inconvenience to everyone to catch a tiny subset of transactions. It's nuts.
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