Random Impertinents For The Weekend
10. Aren’t the Sunday Papers crap when all the columnists go on holiday or submit pieces in their absence that were written two months ago and are so not timely?
9. Tell me why Michael Laws’ columns are so gripping to read? I like Mike. But I would never pay to keep him at home with the baby (refer column 8 January).
8. Diet L&P. About time! But how Westie g.a.y is the name “Sweet As”..
7. So do you keep in touch with the noisy neighbours from the beach all year?
6. How many small towns ran out of petrol this summer?
5. Do you really want to see high ranking professional executive types and entrepreneurial millionaires running around in casual clothes at the beach?
4. How many small beach towns ran out of electricity this summer? They kept turning off the electricity to the spa. Bastards.
3. Wasn’t it easy to get around Auckland with you all away?
2. Air NZ’s 20kg weight limit for luggage. Ala, one suitcase not even full. Tell me, rather than ping the luggage, why they don’t take the average weight of the passengers add the 20kgs and charge in totality if people are overweight when they jump on the scales with their luggage? This is the heart of the issue, not 30kgs of luggage to a normal sized person.
2a. Why isn’t NZ departure tax just added to the price of the bloody ticket? More communist style unnecessary queuing (the worst lines of check in the world has to offer, departure tax AND the scrum that states it is customs) is the only result.
2b. Haha, my nail scissors made it through the carry on bag scanner exiting NZ, for the first time ever. Security?
1. Why buy a beach bach when for the same price it costs (economic and accounting) to keep the beach bach you could fly to Noosa or Hawaii for three weeks a year at Christmas and swim in water that does not freeze your nipples?
9. Tell me why Michael Laws’ columns are so gripping to read? I like Mike. But I would never pay to keep him at home with the baby (refer column 8 January).
8. Diet L&P. About time! But how Westie g.a.y is the name “Sweet As”..
7. So do you keep in touch with the noisy neighbours from the beach all year?
6. How many small towns ran out of petrol this summer?
5. Do you really want to see high ranking professional executive types and entrepreneurial millionaires running around in casual clothes at the beach?
4. How many small beach towns ran out of electricity this summer? They kept turning off the electricity to the spa. Bastards.
3. Wasn’t it easy to get around Auckland with you all away?
2. Air NZ’s 20kg weight limit for luggage. Ala, one suitcase not even full. Tell me, rather than ping the luggage, why they don’t take the average weight of the passengers add the 20kgs and charge in totality if people are overweight when they jump on the scales with their luggage? This is the heart of the issue, not 30kgs of luggage to a normal sized person.
2a. Why isn’t NZ departure tax just added to the price of the bloody ticket? More communist style unnecessary queuing (the worst lines of check in the world has to offer, departure tax AND the scrum that states it is customs) is the only result.
2b. Haha, my nail scissors made it through the carry on bag scanner exiting NZ, for the first time ever. Security?
1. Why buy a beach bach when for the same price it costs (economic and accounting) to keep the beach bach you could fly to Noosa or Hawaii for three weeks a year at Christmas and swim in water that does not freeze your nipples?
posted by Cactus Kate at 4:50 PM
7 Comments:
I thought it was 30kg's and 2 suitcases? Sounds unreasonable to me....
2a. You can now buy your depature tax at a self service terminal at Auckland Airport. Tip is to go upstairs and do it where there are four terminals that no-one uses.
20kg? Fly in first class: 40kg. Also SQ has a special counter for payment of tax by first class pax. No need to queue. But I agree that AKL airport is a pain in the ass.
Air NZ's 20kg limit is especially a pisser when you fly in from overseas with Emirates having allowed you 30kg apiece, and you have a domestic flight to get to the benighted areas of the country your relatives live in. It would be vastly preferable to weigh the passengers and bill the ones who top out over 100kg 5$ per kg for their lard.
Absolutly right about the beach house. waste of money. Say 500k at 7% = 35,000 pa income. Forget three weeks at Noosa, how about two weeks at the george cinq in paris. post xmas sales in new york. jamaica...etc. Different place evry year, no same old noisy neighbours
you only own a beachhouse if you it is not leveraged, or you use it a holiday let, and are able to pro-rata the cost of ownership out, and legitimately claim amn expense against your income.
Besides, there is the added advantage of capital gain if you hold the damn thing long enough
Thanks for the little amateur tax deduction lesson LTP.
If you hold the beach house long enough of course you get a capital gain but this gain does not necessarily eliminate the costs economic and opportunity of what you could be doing with the property.
I would be dumping the beach house quick smart if I were you. People get awfully sentimental about beach property as well.
Sell.
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