From: David Lin  Subject: CSA To: [email protected]
Dear Henderson,

I am so happy to find out your website exist in this world.

I always believe that there must be a lot of very patient 
and quite or "chicken" man like me who can do not things 
about the CSA's rubish law.

I like to share my frustration with someone like you who 
understand my situation. Sometime I feel like to act like a 
crasy man but I just cann't since I am professionally 
educated and employed. Sometime I feel like to support 
whoever who wish to "get rid of the shit agency rule"; but 
I hear no one political party has such a proposal to 
aborish the CSA. The CSA is just made up from a group of 
gangs who legally rob my money, my relationship before my 
divorce, and relationship after my divorce.

My salary get deducted every month by the employer... my 
deduction amount is increased automatically every year in 
line with inflation % while I get no salary increase at 
all...and if I want to appeal the decision, It costs me 
months before I can get the hearing, and costs me months 
before I can get my money back from Caberra. 

My tax return got intercepted even I was not informed about 
their intention of such robbery act. The CSA have to refund 
my money twice but only months after I appealed for such 
injustice. 

What is worst, is that I have two children; I am the custody 
farther of my son (5 years old), and my daughter (2 years 
old) is under her mother's "care". I have never stop 
working as a full time engineer. "she" quit her full time 
job from Australia Post to joint the bangwagan of "single 
mum" and get the pension. I am forced to sell my newly 
bought house just one month after we bought with a heavy 
loan from the bank. (I was told to sell the previous 3 bed 
rooms house and to buy this 4 bed rooms house). It appears 
that she has planned every things for me knowning well 
about the rules of the CSA. 

Today, she goes to work full time every day at her sister's 
travel agent and drop my daughter to a childcare centre 
where she can claim some rebates as a low income pension. 
She works with cash income and declare "NIL" to the  
Australian Taxation office.
Perhaps, the argument she has is that she is under "training"
which everyone would believe that is just a excuse to avoid
tax... and much more... she currently has income
from my CSA money, cash from her work at her sister's
place, from the Centrelink and government's family allowance, and also
living with her mum at the housing commision at a cheap rental rate.

She is driving a ~$26,000 value car and I am driving a $8000
worth of commondore. She always dress up like a model (with new
fashion cloths) to work in Foostcray everyday.....

How about me, I have to wake up my son every day, prepare
breakfast for him, lunch box, dressing him up, pussing him
quick to avoid delaying my time to work... I arrange after
school care and pick him up before 6:30pm... I arrive home
at 7:00pm and start preparing meal for my mum, my son and
myself... We finish diner at 8:00pm only if I am lucky
since the boy somehow very slow in finishing the meal... I
then washing up the dishes and get him to have shower by
9:30pm. Now, I have only 30 minutes or so, to review his
school bag... and help him doing his home works, teaching etc...
I am tire after I put him to sleep at around 10:30pm or sometime 11pm.
That is my routine of my week days. I take him to learn swimming
on Saturday, and I take him to study "Chinese" on Sunday as
part of my cultural language.

And every now and then, I sick of receiving letters sent by
the CSA showing the amount I have to pay or overdue...
eventhought such payment arrangement has aready beyond my
control or influence.

Sorry, for such a rough and long mess story. I hope you can
give me some advises as how I can cope with these CSA rules!
or get rid of them.

Best regards,

David
 
 

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