Gold, not a lawyer, but I just asked an accountant friend of mine: "yeah it would be I'm sure (legal). No way could a massive company do something like that without running it past the regulations (eg, IRD) to see that that would be ok. I am assuming they have the go ahead from the IRD itself to be able to do this - so long as when you log in it is a legal invoice in that it has their tax number etc, I don't see a problem with it."
Aaron ----- Original Message ----- From: "Aaron Cooper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 2:19 PM Subject: [phpug] Re: Vodafone and their new invoicing policy > > > ----- 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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
