Be Very Afraid: One Man's Stand Against the IRD

78 pages. Cover slightly wornThis book will make your blood boil. It is the almost unbelievable account of Christchurch businessman Dave Henderson's five year battle with the Inland Reve nue Department. It tells of a government department that is out of control, with little respect for the law and common decency. What started as a routine GST ta x return, seeking a sizeable refund, turned into a nightmare. The IRD assessed M r Henderson's company for a million dollars, refused to explain the basis for th e assessments and drove him into bankruptcy. Determined to resist the IRD's bull ying tactics, Dave Henderson withstood its continued efforts to drive him furthe r under. This book tells that story. It describes, in graphic detail, the action s, evasions and convolutions practised by a department with almost limitless res ources and no-one to monitor its behaviour.