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Entry Posted November 28, 2007

http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2007/nov/27/hotels.newzealand New Zealand tax department slights Dave Henderson, so he buys their building, evicts them, and turns it into a boutique hotel. 08:28

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… The Guardian has this amazing story of how aNew Zealander wreaked vengence on the income tax authoritiesafter they wrongfully prosecuted him. He bought the IT office, and then evicted them! :) …

oook! eeek! (oookeeek.blogspot.com):
… The Guardian has this amazing story of how aNew Zealander wreaked vengence on the income tax authoritiesafter they wrongfully prosecuted him. He bought the IT office, and then evicted them! :) …

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… The Guardian has this amazing story of how aNew Zealander wreaked vengence on the income tax authoritiesafter they wrongfully prosecuted him. He bought the IT office, and then evicted them! :) …

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… Best servedwith an eviction notice. …

The Club For Growth - http://www.clubforgrowth.org (www.clubforgrowth.org):
… We're Here to Help Andrew Roth There's a new film called "We're Here to Help" in New Zealand based on the real life story of one man's battle with the taxman. Here's a summary fromThe Guardian. In 1994, [Dave] Henderson dispatched his girlfriend to the tax offices to submit an application for a NZ$65,000 (£23,723) rebate. Inappropriate comments were made to the girlfriend, and Henderson felt obliged to defend her honour. Result: a …

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The Corner on National Review Online (corner.nationalreview.com):
… Sticking it to the Taxman, Kiwi Style [Mark Hemingway] TheGuardian reportshow one frustrated businessman in New Zealand managed to get revenge after being bullied by the Inland Revenue Department: The financial wrangle has been documented in the film We're Here To Help, which was released in New Zealand to coincide with the …

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… The Guardian …

dept consolidation (mparent7777-2.blogspot.com):
… about raising the NZ$40m (£14,606,388) to develop the space into Hotel SO, and is now looking to roll out more in Auckland and possibly London and New York. So, really, we owe a debt of gratitude to the New Zealand inland revenue, the tax departmentthat just likes to keep giving.Andy Pietrasik …

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… FOODPAIRING A set of graphs that show how certain types of food can combine with others. zissou Fantastic pieces of art. SimplePie A super-fast, easy-to-use, RSS and Atom parser written in PHP.The unlikely story of Hotel SO [guardian]The story of a Kiwi man's battle with the tax department. (Yes, he won the battle.) find more random finds from my ma.gnolia or subscribe to the feed. …

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… Remember "I liked the company so much, I bought it"? well, the quotation came to mind when the Stumblng Tumblr readthisstory, via reddit Dave Henderson hated the New Zealand Inland Revenue Department so much, he bought the building in which they were housed and then forced them out of it to find out why he hated them so much, read the story …

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