"What we can't find is anything leading up to the announcement, nor
any indication of the economic analysis that surely must have been
done before embarking on this."
Yet they also say: "But of course this will have to be balanced with
increases in the amounts spent on direct taxation: the NZ government
is putting NZ$6m into Statistics NZ over the next four years to ease
this process"
This seems like a no-brainer to me. $1.5 million per year for an
estimated annual increase of 20,000 users, mostly businesses.
Economically, it seems simple enough, however it's the politics that
probably had more sway. The nearly 100 businesses that had annual
subscriptions to the data may have gotten together to demand a saner
policy similar to those of their neighbours.
On 6/16/07, Tracey P. Lauriault <
[hidden email]> wrote:
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