Wednesday, October 21, 2009

So...

How are those multi-billion dollar tax fraud cases coming along?


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9 comments:

  1. ccsOctober 21, 2009 at 11:00 AM

    ASB might have been 'A Kiwi Bank' since 1847 but I wonder when they became an Aussie bank.

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  2. JamesOctober 21, 2009 at 11:21 AM

    I suppose that tax evasion might have been the right right thing by their *customers*, so that's not strictly a lie.

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  3. AnonymousOctober 21, 2009 at 11:25 AM

    That "We've been a KIWI BANK..." one seems a bit desperate.

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  4. AnonymousOctober 21, 2009 at 12:51 PM

    They should have just gone with 'ASB Bank is great with chicken'.

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  5. gazzajOctober 21, 2009 at 4:10 PM

    To be fair, it's unlikely any of the banks or the IRD have released many press releases on this issue - so reporting it would require an actual journalist to spend a certain amount of time on it, plus the cost of the phone calls to verify facts, notepads, dictaphone tapes, lunch etc etc - the costs add up pretty quickly!

    It's not like the Herald can afford to just throw money at any old "news" just because any reasonable observer might think it's important.

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  6. UnknownOctober 21, 2009 at 9:39 PM

    It's also not like the Herald to verify facts :-/

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  7. UnknownOctober 22, 2009 at 12:47 AM

    ASB Bank is the Commonwealth Bank of Australia. It's the same company. Same ASX listing. Not really a KIWI BANK is it?

    I have the Reuters app on my desktop here, nothing on this since the 14th. Except for 1 story about ASB settling with IRD , bounced back as a press digest from stuff.

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  8. AnonymousOctober 22, 2009 at 4:08 PM

    Nothing for a while...

    http://www.ird.govt.nz/aboutir/media-centre/media-releases/2009/media-release-2009-10-08.html

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  9. AnonymousOctober 29, 2009 at 5:45 AM

    I complained to the Advertising Standards Authority about ASBs' advert.

    Yes I have that much spare time.

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