We'll be paying tax on our perks and they wont because they are a charity! Any updates on this yet Wal?

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It sickens me that this government, and the one before it have wrapped the Board in cotton wool and not make them own up to their mistakes. At times it seems like the whole bloody lot of them have circuled the wagons.  The Board's latest stance is to deny they even know how things were worked out two years ago, how figures have changed so rapidly - "we weren't there then."  Mr Craig O'Connell was the Acting CEO when the Board announced the real cost of initial registration was $1400 and now they are talking $500.  Perhaps the new CEO could ask him at the next Board meeting how they came to the cost of $1400 and how HE thinks the figure might have dropped to $500?   They are as transparent as a 100 year old oak tree.  They SHOULD be as transparent as glass.  Despite all the rhetoric we can see that our disciplinary levy was not spent entirely on dicipline, but has VERY obviously gone into the reserves.  None of us need to be a rocket scientist to see that, and we don't have to work for KPMG to be able to work it out.  I understand one of the newest Board member's has an accounting degree - one can only say it might be sorely needed to point out the obvious.  I am both sickened and disappointed that this board haven't fronted and stated what we can all see, and that is they are not using the disciplinary levy or offences fee as the Act envisioned, nor are they spending it on matters arising out of...  They are just charging it, using some of it, and pocketing the rest to help pay for overheads and costs.    This could be interpreted as theft - why not just put on a balaclava and be done with it?

Why are we against them being a charity? Surely if they change and have to pay tax it'll simply mean they need more money from us?

Every type of authority organisation falls into this category pretty much don't they?

Do they Hoff - are you talking the dishonest category, or the charity category?

It will be interesting to hear news regarding the Board's registration as a charity.  What I found interesting is that unlike a Trust, or an Incorporated Society, who are granted charitable, donee and tax exempt status by furnishing a copy of their Deed of Trust or Constitution and the assessment of those rules as to whether they meet the charitable test, is that the Board submitted the Plumbers Gasfitters and Drainlayers Act 2006 as their "rules"... all 126 pages of it.  Makes me scratch my head in wonder...

Surely if they are a charity then you can claim back your charitatble donation or at least a third of it (fees)?

No. That was my first thought. I've had a decent look. It appears they (PGDB) are not a charity you can claim back tax on.

The PGDB seem very similar to some MP's or political parties, or the ''govt'' , and can basically do or say or deny anything they want and because they are so high up, and by putting the right spin on a situation they get away with it.   ''Human Error'' ring any bells anyone?