>  1.. For example, in terms of rates of payment: according to
>information obtained from the Inland Revenue Department's website for
>the 2005/2006 year minimum CTC payable for families with one child
>(earning an income before tax of up to $34,500), per fortnight, was
>$30. In comparison according information obtained from the Inland
>Revenue Department's website for 2006/2007 year the minimum IWP
>payable for families with one (earning an income before tax of up to
>$53,000), is $120 per fortnight.
>And many many many more.
>
>ie it's just part of the vocabulary here. I'm not at all sure why you
>would have doubted that when it was initially stated but I imagine
>that, now you have ample demonstration of it's use, that you'll doubt
>it still :-). No?

I can see this is going to create more discussion on why NZ does its tax 
system in fortnights ...

For those non-NZers here, most salary payments in NZ are done fortnightly. 
On odd numbered weeks the government pays its salaries and benefits 
(pensions etc), and on even numbered weeks the private sector pays its 
salaries.

Hence the IRD tends to work out everything as per the excerpt above in 
fortnightly periods. This may also make the usage of 'fortnight' more common 
in NZ than a lot of other places, even the UK. 

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