Possible new tax law

[king1]

as I understand the the government's intention at the moment is to collect more data, for more informed decision making down the track...

Can't see anything wrong with that, although I could see how those that are having data collected about themselves might be a bit anxious,  if they had something to hide...

So Parker got his $5 mil last year and in that time he has written a speech about unfairness in the tax system.  Money well spent there.

yes $5 mil to write a speech... Money well spent there...

I believe it was $5 million over two years, and the money was for the research and collection of data, which I imagine would involves a chunk of changes to IT systems at Treasury and IRD etc to actually collect the data.  So not unreasonable...

But I'm sure you already new that...