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Charities Services - Fraudulent filings by 'Communities Against Alcohol Harm Incorporated'

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From: Steven Morse

Hi,

I was deeply disturbed to read in the Annual Return for 'Communities Against Alcohol Harm Incorporated', an organization funded by publicans to lobby against off-license sales of liquor, that this organization which receives hundreds of thousands of dollars from owners of bars and clubs each year- and spends hundreds of thousands on lobbying- that their "annual operating payments are under $140,000" in an annual return from fiscal year 2024 that Charities Services signed off on.
https://register.charities.govt.nz/Docum...

I am aware that Charities Service policy allows organizations like the on-license lobby that is CAAH to keep reporting at a lower standard than should be required based on their operating payments for up to two years after they should have to conform to the appropriate standards, but I must request the following information:
1) Is it Charities Service policy to allow an organization to fraudulently claim to have operating payments under $140,000 per annum, when it directly contradicts this in the very same annual return and admits that its operating payments are more than a hundred thousand dollars in excess of that limit?

Thanks,
Steven

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Tçnâ koe Steven,

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Ngâ mihi

Ekta Raturi (ia/she/her)| Official Correspondence Coordinator
Te Pâhekoheko|Operations Regulatory and Identity Services
The Department of Internal Affairs|Te Tari Taiwhenua

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Tçnâ koe Steven,

Your request has been forwarded onto Charities Services as a Business
Inquiry.

It may be helpful for me to explain, where information can be freely
provided without the need for collation or consultation, and the nature of
the information does not require considerations for withholding or refusal
under the Official Information Act (OIA), there is no need to action it as
an OIA request.

Ngâ mihi

 

Krystle Courtier ([1]she/her) | Advisor Official Correspondence

Regulatory and Identity Services

The Department of Internal Affairs |  Te Tari Taiwhenua
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