Passive aggressive posters who don't know how to read.
Yes because he has very clever accountants, he still had to pay $32,000 back to the tax payer and could no longer claim the money.
Despite living in Wellington since the 80s, owning his own house here, his wife being a GP here, his kids going to school here, etc. he claimed that his primary residents was in Southland which was clearly a lie in order to get extra money from the tax payer. Reguardless of the legality based on complicated trust arrangements.