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Inland Revenue plays a critical role in improving the economic and social wellbeing of New Zealanders. Inland Revenue collects 80% of the Crown's revenue as well as collecting and disbursing social support programme payments and providing the government with policy advice.
Inland Revenue - Latest News [Page 10]
8 months’ home detention for not declaring income
Friday, 21 April 2017, 9:47 am | Inland Revenue Department
A Silverdale tradesman has been sentenced to eight months’ home detention for not declaring nearly $500,000 in payments for gibstopping jobs over a three-year period. More >>
Restaurant owner gets home detention for tax fraud
Friday, 7 April 2017, 10:22 am | Inland Revenue Department
An award-winning Hutt Valley restaurateur has been sentenced to 10 months’ home detention for pocketing cash sales, money laundering and filing false GST and income tax returns. More >>
Auckland accountant jailed for tax fraud
Wednesday, 1 March 2017, 3:48 pm | Inland Revenue Department
A self-employed Auckland accountant has been sentenced to four years and eight months in prison after receiving nearly $500,000 in tax refunds based on fraudulent claims. More >>
IRD reveals the numbers behind its huge technology transfer
Friday, 10 February 2017, 9:12 am | Inland Revenue Department
More than 17,300 customers have successfully used the new Inland Revenue GST system since it went live on Monday, with over 5,500 GST returns successfully processed and new GST registrations coming through also. More >>
Major improvements to GST to be introduced next week
Wednesday, 1 February 2017, 3:24 pm | Inland Revenue Department
Improvements to how New Zealanders file and manage their GST will be introduced next week as part of Inland Revenue’s multi-million dollar programme to transform the tax system. More >>
Businessman gets jail for evading nearly $400,000 in tax
Wednesday, 25 January 2017, 12:05 pm | New Zealand Inland Revenue
Auckland businessman Clive Stephen William Bench was last week sentenced to 19 months in prison for failing to pay $399,827 in GST, income tax and withholding tax. More >>
Inland Revenue to roll out $25 million information system
Thursday, 19 January 2017, 9:27 am | New Zealand Inland Revenue
Inland Revenue has signed a deal with New Zealand company TEAM Asparona to provide the first stage of a new multi-million dollar information knowledge management system. More >>
Inland Revenue considers updating farmhouse expenses rules
Friday, 14 October 2016, 9:18 am | Inland Revenue Department
Inland Revenue is looking to bring tax accounting practice regarding farmhouse expenses into line with the law. More >>
Inland Revenue ramping up scrutiny of big business taxpayers
Friday, 30 September 2016, 1:04 pm | Inland Revenue Department
Inland Revenue is increasing the number of large companies, including foreign-owned multinationals, that come under close scrutiny to make sure they are paying the right amount of tax. Since 2012, 600 New Zealand and foreign–owned groups have been under ... More >>
Restaurateur gets 3 years’ jail for tax evasion
Friday, 19 August 2016, 10:05 am | Inland Revenue Department
An Auckland restaurateur has been sentenced to three years and two months in jail after evading $787,996 in tax. More >>
Inland Revenue launches Changing For You campaign
Friday, 12 August 2016, 10:27 am | Inland Revenue Department
Inland Revenue has launched an advertising campaign aimed at helping small businesses understand how possible changes to the tax system may affect them, and giving them the opportunity to have their say. More >>
Inland Revenue thrilled with response to eGST trial
Thursday, 28 July 2016, 11:41 am | Inland Revenue Department
Filling in tax returns could soon be a headache of the past for small business owners on the strength of a successful recent pilot. Inland Revenue has been working with two major accounting software providers to trial the filing of GST returns. A survey ... More >>
IT consultant gets two years’ jail for non payment of tax
Tuesday, 26 July 2016, 9:47 am | Inland Revenue Department
An independent contractor from Dunedin has been sentenced to two years and two months in jail after racking up more than $685,000 in debt to the taxpayer. More >>
IRD transformation programme on time and under budget
Friday, 15 July 2016, 11:16 am | Inland Revenue Department
The BusinessDesk story run on nbr.co.nz yesterday on the cost of Inland Revenue’s business transformation project risks giving the impression the programme is running over budget. In fact the project is continuing to track on plan and is currently ... More >>
Contractor gets home detection for not paying income tax
Monday, 11 July 2016, 12:37 pm | Inland Revenue Department
A Wellington contractor has been given six months’ home detention after failing to pay nearly $240,000 in income tax and GST. More >>
Don’t fall for phone scammers alleging tax evasion
Thursday, 16 June 2016, 4:02 pm | Inland Revenue Department
New Zealanders are being warned about a spate of scam phone callers saying they are from Inland Revenue and trying to recover unpaid taxes. Inland Revenue has received notifications of the scam calls from more than 500 customers all over the country, ... More >>
Kerikeri man sentenced to 3½ years’ jail for tax evasion
Monday, 21 December 2015, 1:56 pm | Inland Revenue Department
A former Kerikeri man highly skilled in accounting and information technology who devised a tax evasion scheme involving Maori trusts has been sentenced to three and a half years in jail. More >>
Sales manager sentenced to 3 years jail for tax fraud
Thursday, 3 December 2015, 11:26 am | Inland Revenue Department
An Auckland sales manager who failed to pay tax and dishonestly claimed refunds has been sentenced to 3 years jail. More >>
Taranaki retailers jailed for hiding millions in cash sales
Thursday, 26 November 2015, 10:46 am | Inland Revenue Department
Former New Plymouth retailer Jianbin Wang has been jailed for 3 years 9 months for failing to declare millions in cash takings, while his wife Fenglan Liu received 2 years 3 months in prison. More >>
Company director gets home detention for tax offences
Wednesday, 18 November 2015, 4:13 pm | Inland Revenue Department
A Wellington security company director who evaded paying nearly $1 million in tax has been sentenced to eight months’ home detention. Paul Cornel Coffey was sentenced in Wellington District Court today after being found guilty of 79 tax offences relating ... More >>
