----- Original Message ----- From: "Gold" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 1:53 PM, Aaron Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> I'm sure it's very legal. VF wouldn't be so stupid to implement such a >> massive infrastructure change without doing their legal homework. I >> beleive > > Heh. I think you have too much faith in the ability of larger > companies. My experience is that they tend to think "some other > department must have approved that".
Ha, yeah I guess I do. But this thing has been in the press a few times and no one in the legal know or the IRD has bought up a problem yet. So I'm assuming it's A-OK. >> the only legal requirement for invoices is that it contains the word "Tax >> Invoice" on it somewhere, and the details of both yourself, and the >> customer. > > Really? Cool. I'll start drawing up invoices to them for the time it > takes to go to their site, download and print the invoices. I'll make > them available on my site. All they need to do is log in, identify > themselves and download them. If not paid I'll bundle them up each 6 > months and pass them on to baycorp or someone... ;) You know what? When you put it that way, it really is a pain in the ass and simply passing extra costs onto customers. I wonder how much of my printer cartridges they are going to chew up. If these new bills are colour, then VF are total bastards for making me have to remember to push the B&W button on my printer too. Easy to see that giving a discount incentive for people to opt-out of paper is the least they can do after feilding the entire cost of invoicing since the beginning. Pretty valid points about simply changing this though. I have read however that this change is only going to apply to Personal and Home Business customers. So there may be a way for you to go status quo depending on how your account is structured. You do have to admit. Most personal account owners read the bill, pay it and bin it. It's probably only the home business people who are going to have a wide spread problem with this as they need to store the bills for taxation. I myself will simply be paying mine as usual, and printing the lot out at the end of the fiscal year. (They are storing 13 months worth at a time) Aaron --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
