Geof Nightingale

Tax accountant. No, really......

[Geof Nightingale @Geoftax]

@dan_brunskill It could be fine. As long as the banks’ ability to price for risk is unfettered, then they can lend to fossil fuel companies at the risk adjusted rates that they judge appropriate. It’s not woke to price risk.

[Geof Nightingale @Geoftax]

@clairlemon Totally

[Geof Nightingale @Geoftax]

Incredible thread linking Dome Valley north of Auckland to all sorts of history. Amazing from @SikotiHamiltonR

[Scott Hamilton RTM @SikotiHamiltonR]

1/20 Kawakawa part politely as we enter Dome Valley. The plant's pitted green tongues seem to be trying to say something, but when I stop to listen I can only hear the wind's interminable, beautiful nonsense. I wonder whether I will be able to impress Robert with this badland.

[Scott Hamilton RTM @SikotiHamiltonR]

1/12 If you ask a guide book it'll call Cape Reinga or Bluff the edge of NZ. But I think the real edge of te ao Pakeha is Island Block, a strip of Waikato pasture surrounded by the wilderness of Whangamarino swamp. Today the island is burning. It has burnt before.

[orange? @generic_orange1]

A chain of three cafes closed down and the owner blamed cycleways. But none of the cafes were anywhere near one. How is that possible?

I investigated the mystery. What I found shocked me to my core.

https://t.co/kMGyxJrofu

[Geof Nightingale @Geoftax]

@chamfy Yes and it was a party line with 6 households! Our ring tone was one long and two short. And that was New Plymouth in the 70’s.

[Newstalk ZB @NewstalkZB]

Does New Zealand need an inheritance tax?

https://t.co/YQs8anfA0f

[Geof Nightingale @Geoftax]

Live updates: 16/7/84, one of the wildest days in New Zealand politics | The Spinoff - this is very good from ⁦@toby_etc⁩ https://t.co/KvSWqx9yKQ

[TB4A.com @TheBig4Tweets]

you would have hated deferred taxes

[TB4A.com @TheBig4Tweets]

Happy Father’s Day, Luca

[Geof Nightingale @Geoftax]

@henrycooke But, I thought at least, a great read that led me to spending several hours in the drizzle at the Barbican 😊

[Geof Nightingale @Geoftax]

@EricCrampton Enact a realisation based capital gains tax to capture economic income going untaxed (equity and efficiency) and recycle that revenue to index thresholds and in due course actual rate reductions of personal tax (broader base lower rate).

[Geof Nightingale @Geoftax]

@ChrisKeall That’s a really interesting article, a very cool feature, and the insurance/convenience worth $1.50 I think.

[Geof Nightingale @Geoftax]

The Manawatu Gorge replacement, Te Ahu a Turanga, looks incredible. A great infrastructure investment connecting three regional economies. https://t.co/S9OJvGer8p

[Geof Nightingale @Geoftax]

@chamfy It was oddly terrifying and voyeristic at the same time to peer into peoples’ apartments as you came around to land.

[Rob Henderson @robkhenderson]

Interesting twist on aristocracy: The Manchus in 17th century China implemented a tax on social status. Automatic family status depreciation acted as an incentive for the younger generation to prove itself in the eyes of the emperor.

[Geof Nightingale @Geoftax]

@dairymanNZ I also could find a relevant way to include capital gains tax in my answer 😂

[Geof Nightingale @Geoftax]

@dairymanNZ ROE is both a measure of profitability and a measure of how efficiently equity is deployed. I heard Coles CEO say at the same hearing that it’s ROE was 31%, which is a pretty good return. The nuanced question is whether the ROE is adequate for the risk taken.

[Ben Thomas @BenThomasNZ]

April 1st, the one day of the year the internet is full of misinformation