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From: Steven Morse <[FOI #31283 email]>
Sent: Thursday, 12 June 2025 9:20 am
To: OIA <[DIA request email]>
Subject: Official Information request - Charities Services - Fraudulent filings by 'Communities Against Alcohol Harm Incorporated'

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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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