Plunket wants GST exemption
PA Dunedin The Plunket Society wants to be exempted from the goods and services tax because of the “unique nature" of the service it provides, says the society’s president, Mrs Meriel Johnstone. She has said that the tax could threaten some of Plunket’s community services, including its car-seat rental scheme. “Indirect taxation is regarded as a method of easing levels of personal income tax, yet the society does not pay income tax,’’
she told the society’s Otago and Southland district conference. “The society does, however, provide services that are legion, but it does not seek to profit from them, just to extend and enhance them for the greatest good of the greatest number.” Mrs Johnstone is optimistic about the society’s chances of exemption, but warned that if the tax was imposed the cost of hiring a childcare safety seat could become too expensive for those parents who most needed the service.
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