Inland Revenue stories

Inland Revenue's new guidance aims to provide more certainty for New Zealand taxpayers who hold crypto-assets, and to help people ‘get things right from the start’.More

The revenue system will be closed for a week in April as Inland Revenue introduces a new round of changes to make tax more straightforward.More

The news comes following similar moves by the Accident Compensation Corporation, Kiwibank and New Zealand Post.More

“If they don’t play by the new rules, we will know who they are, and they should expect we’ll be in touch."More

“More businesses are opting to take the guesswork out of provisional tax in favour of the greater certainty that AIM provides."More

Inland Revenue prosecuted Nicola ‘Nicky’ Dargie for failing to pay PAYE, leading to the liquidation of all of her businesses. It’s not the first time she has been convicted.More

Inland Revenue received more than 430,000 cheque payments in the last financial year, but the amount of cheque payments has been dropping around 20% each year, according to the firm.More

Whether it's cryptocurrency salaries or a central digital currency, no agency is quite sure how to tackle this upcoming payment trend.More

Kiwi small businesses are being encouraged to use Inland Revenue's online gateway to file their payroll information in order to avoid the risk of errors and possible fines. More

“We’ve received more than 900 reports over the weekend. It looks like the real thing but has some tell-tale mistakes that people can use to tell it’s a scam."More

"We want to help avoid paying too much tax throughout the year so we can minimise the annual ritual of waiting to be refunded."More

Inland Revenue is moving to help make sure investors, including KiwiSavers, get on the correct prescribed investor tax rate.More

“We’re working with the police and banks to investigate further and anyone who has been left out of pocket will be reimbursed."More

The first two batches of automatic tax assessments have been successfully issued by Inland Revenue.More

Having shutdown its services for seven days for an IT revamp, IRD is now celebrating its digital transformation success.More

Inland Revenue recently celebrated the success of a massive IT project in its digital transformation journey.More

“There’s never an ideal time to shut down the tax system but we’re confident the changes will make any inconvenience worthwhile.”More

"We heard nonsense about it being a stealth tax, a waste of time and a way for the IRD to spy on what goes on within the business," says Vinay Iswar.More

In the last month, two e-mail scams surfaced asking taxpayers to fill in a form to receive a refund owed to them.More

The University of Auckland has onboarded Rimini Street to upgrade its HR software in order to comply with this year’s changes to payday filing.More

Providers have been working closely with Inland Revenue to make sure they can meet their clients’ needs when the changes roll out.More

Inland Revenue is warning New Zealanders to be vigilant about any ‘tax refund’ emails they receive that appear to look genuine.More

The biggest tax changes in a generation are coming, and they will affect almost every business household and business across the country. More

To help New Zealand business owners understand the changes coming to how they file employees’ payday information, Inland Revenue is conducting more than 300 seminars around the country.More