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Strictly factual

Thursday 9 January 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, I’d like to suggest a correction to the headline on the front page of the paper on January 8, that read "Pa Enua focus of major donor meeting." This is not the paper’s fault per say, but if the paper wanted to be factually correct the headline should read: "Rhetoric the focus of major donor meeting".

Singing, joking bus driver 'thoroughly' entertaining

Tuesday 7 January 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, I have stayed in Rarotonga for about a month.

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Taxing land in the Cook Islands 'impractical, incorrect and silly'

Tuesday 7 January 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, Can taxes promote growth? I make reference to an article published in your newspaper on January 6 where Zbignlew Dumienski, a PhD Candidate at Auckland University, was reportedly saying that taxing of land in the Cook Islands or at least on Rarotonga would be possible.

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17 year old's 73 runs not enough to save Arenikau

Monday 6 January 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor

17 year old Amanda Mangi is the talk of the Aitutakian cricketing community this week as the talented youngster lit Hollywood alight on Friday belting her way to an impressive 73.

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'Fighting the rot' in a Christian nation

Monday 6 January 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, I stumbled across Maria Hayes’s article and feel obliged to send it through our local newspapers.

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Hi-tech Xmas for CITC grand winners

Friday 3 January 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Lucky CITC shoppers snapped up new gadgets in the final of a month long promotion on Monday.

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'They should know to expect to pay tax like everyone else'

Friday 3 January 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, We are rather sick and tired of the Grey Power group and their attacks on government and the tax department.

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Shame on you!

Friday 3 January 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, I assume the letter “Coffin dodgers-tax dodgers” (CI News December 31) was either written by someone within the CIP/MFEM or at their behest.

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'Create a tax haven for pensioners'

Friday 3 January 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, After reading views and the pros and cons about the “Grey Power” back tax on their pensions, there seems to be two arguments about this topic.

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Coffin dodgers – tax dodgers

Tuesday 31 December 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, Are Grey Power members becoming the consummate tax dodgers by making their non-payment of tax a political football and thus pressuring the government to exempt them from tax they should have otherwise paid, and as a result of this fooling the general public along the way? Is this not the general position: 1.

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Government spending 'not justified'

Tuesday 31 December 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, I write to you in the hope something can be done about the on ongoing wasteful spending of various State Owned Enterprise (SOE) boards on Boondoggle projects.

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Taking with one hand, giving with the other

Tuesday 31 December 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, The almost $16,000 (that we know of) that the Ministry of Finance and Economic Management (MFEM) took out of three Grey Power members’ accounts last week pays 800 of the $50 bonus the Ministry of Internal Affairs handed out as Christmas presents to local beneficiaries.

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'Why should they be exempt?'

Monday 30 December 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, I live in New Zealand and receive a New Zealand pension that is taxed by the New Zealand Tax Department prior to being paid.

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Court outcome 'solves' title dispute

Saturday 28 December 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, At long last, the long awaited decision by the court in relation to the Maoate Mataiapo title had eventually come to a final conclusion.

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CIP – 'the party of cruelty'

Saturday 28 December 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, As a longtime Cook Islands Party supporter I have always come to believe that Papa Arapati’s dream of his party as the party of Aroa is the most enduring legacy of the CIP.

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Taking pensioner's tax 'an arrogant act'

Saturday 28 December 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, People in our society typically ask, “Who is supposedly leading our country?” Seldom do you hear this question being repeatedly tangled in our people’s daily conversations.

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No basis for gossip

Saturday 28 December 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, I am extremely flabbergasted as to how much energy goes into the production and spreading of stories that have no basis or element of truth.

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