Tax dodgers

The calls come after its leader, the self-proclaimed bishop Brian Tamaki, in a sermon made a dumb and dubious linkage to the recent earthquakes and homosexuality. However, the Hound has not heard the same calls from the luvvies to end the tax-free status of multinational activist group Greenpeace. The lobby’s rampant political activities and dubious environmental claims can be seen in its latest advertising campaign alleging the NZ government is allowing our rivers to be destroyed and drinking water polluted by dairy farming and irrigation schemes. It’s past time for our government to end Greenpeace’s tax-free status; it’s clearly not a charity, but a huge money-making, overtly political lobby group.