Another ACA story, Child support

mcrover · 17th May 2007, 04:18 PM

And I thought I had it bad.

Grizzley, I really feel for you mate, it cant be easy living with that but take solice that in about 3 years your daughter will hate her mother for no apparent reason as she will be 15 and angry.

This is when you get your own back as you can be the good dad and take her in, it happened with both my sisters and every girl I have ever known from a broken marriage.

As far as being self employed goes, I would if I could but I cant with my job, I believe that if it's legal do it but if it's not or border line then dont do it so much at least.

They dont really make it common knolage what you can and cant do with tax law as well as it depends on who you talk to at CSA or CL and how they interpret the rules then depends on how much they screw you over and what sex they are changes which way they swing the rules.

The system needs to change, there is absolutly no reason why people should be strewn into poverty because they work.

**Reads90** · 17th May 2007, 04:24 PM

Originally Posted by Grizzly_Adams

G'day Ali.

Australia was one of the first to come up with a full "Child Support System".

The U.K. based their CSA equivalent on ours.

Feel sorry for us now?

Yeah too right

**gghaggis** · 17th May 2007, 04:50 PM

Originally Posted by BigJon

I also agree that in a case such as yours, there should be a more fair and equitable way of doing things.

Having said that, I believe that tax avoidance (legally minimising your taxable income) makes perfect sense, as opposed to tax evasion (illegal tax minimisation). It is just unfortunate that the current system appears to rely too heavily on easily manipulated figures.

The point is that when you are comparing two people's incomes, it should be on a fair footing. If one is self-employed and the other is not, said comparison can be severely biased. For instance, I have the mother's sworn affidavit of her income for a particular year, that she was forced to present in court on another matter - $45,000. Her taxable income, according to CSA for the same year, was $12,800. Mine for that year was $58,000. So I ended up having to pay her a _lot_ more than she was entitled to, out of a much smaller disposable income due to her paying bugger-all tax.

When I showed said affidavit to CSA, they agreed it was unfair, but I should "take it to court", which of course, I couldn't afford.

****ty position to be in.

mcrover · 19th May 2007, 09:48 PM

Just got a news letter from CSA yesterday, theyve apparently revised the website and in the news letter it says that it is a more fairer system, Im still waiting to see that but hears the website if you havnt allready got it.

http://www.csa.gov.au/index.aspx

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