Domestic Focus
OPINION: After hogging the media limelight for telling a NZ Chinese MP to "go back home", Winston Peters has decided to focus on a domestic issue - oil and gas drilling.
However, too many farmers put reclaiming excise duty on petrol into the "too hard" basket, according to farm accounting software provider, Farm Focus.
A little over six months ago, the company launched a partnership with PR Claims, a specialist provider that manages fuel excise duty refund claims and says its customers have now recovered more than $500,000 in fuel refunds through their system.
It says that for many farmers, refunds of excise duty on petrol used for on-farm off-road use went unclaimed simply because the process felt too complex to pursue. And at the current rate of 78 cents a litre, it stacks up.
But with strong farmgate prices, farmers may not be too keen to go after "small change".
