Child support payments are to be deducted directly from parent’s pay-packets, under new rules announced by the Government today.

Revenue Minister Peter Dunne this morning announced changes to child support arrangements, including how payments are calculated, having payments taken directly from parents pay-packets, and easing up on the penalties for those that default on payments.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/5481135/New-child-support-laws-introduced

It looks like a tax, its caluculated like tax,its administered by IRD, now Dunne wants to take it from your Pay like a tax and he calls child support. When will the charade stop and Dunne be honest. He supports taxing mums and dads who are not the Custodial Parent of their children to recover benifits despite those same benifits being recovered by general taxation.

Dunne has done nothing to correct the fundemental flaws of the legislation and this is just another patch that screws seperated parents.