If you're a left-wing union organiser, who opposes corporate tax cuts and favours higher taxes on the rich, you'd be consistent and pay your fair share, right? Wrong:
Inland Revenue is chasing unionist Matt McCarten's Unite Support Services Ltd. for $150,750 in unpaid taxes after the department forced the company into liquidation last month."Failure to provide for taxation" is a polite way of saying "couldn't be arsed paying". Which makes McCarten a hypocrite on a grand scale. As Commissioner of Inland Revenue Robert Russell so eloquently said this morning,McCarten's vehicle, which supplied administrative support services to the youth-orientated union Unite Inc., was put into liquidation by a High Court order last month after the tax department pursued it for "failure to provide for taxation," according to the first liquidator's report.
[p]eople who are non-compliant are basically stealing from their neighbours.McCarten should stop doing that, and start paying his fair share. Otherwise, he's no different to the rich pricks he rails against.
