Why is the answer to lock people up before they have been found guilty. What we must do is make sure the court system moves much quicker. It is wrong to have people in prison for years waiting on a court case. If we could speed that up so that when people are charged they have their court case within 2-3 months the whole idea of bail becomes a moot point.

Strange that everyone seems against it. Many countries in the world try this process to reduce crime, even our Neighbour to the North the US. If it works then great, if not what have you lost? You do this behind closed doors not in the open. But yup lets continue as is and see if that helps.

We are the best at putting our head in the sand and shouting at anyone who says the truth about the issues we face

Based on this can it not be said that Auditors don't have experience running business and yet inland revenue is trusting them to give them the correct figure. Showing it is a waste of money and time?

Anything happen to the person who signed off on these loans? Anyone could tell you that station was not worth half as much as the loan. But i guess its OK as its only the taxpayer who has to stump up more funds, and nothing should happen to that person.

LOL there is no such thing as ease of doing business here. They make it as hard as possible so you start to think that maybe giving out a bit extra will be worth it. This is going to be a failure just like all the other changes, as the people making these decisions have no real life experience of what it means to those who have to implement them.

Don't pay. Everyone needs to just not pay like a lot of people already do. Whilst it used to be too low, this is a ridiculous increase in the fee.

Correct he has no shame. But same with the PLP and you, easy to point fingers and say someone else could have done something but didn't whilst you aren't in control. Your party is in control and is not doing anything so they are just as bad

No other country has audited FS as part of the requirements. What's happening is Government does not trust the figures given to them, but does not want to have the expense of having their own audit team, so they are passing that cost onto every business over $5 million, which in turn will be passed onto every customer of theirs (which will be pretty much everyone). Next year the PM will be saying how greedy the merchants are whilst knowing Government is the cause of most of the increases.

I know it won't be $500 million, however he has just given the contractor carte blanche to increase their price with no recourse.