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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 11]
Inland Revenue issues Revenue Alert
Friday, 13 November 2015, 9:48 am | Inland Revenue Department
Inland Revenue has issued a Revenue Alert, RA 15/01, advising that some employee share purchase schemes may constitute tax avoidance. Revenue Alerts are issued by the Commissioner of Inland Revenue to provide information and guidance about significant ... More >>
Patrick Renshaw sentenced for tax evasion
Wednesday, 14 October 2015, 11:03 am | Inland Revenue Department
Lower Hutt tax advisor Patrick John Renshaw has been given 10 months’ home detention for tax offences. More >>
"Just be honest mate and pay your tax,” say tradies
Wednesday, 30 September 2015, 10:07 am | Inland Revenue Department
A survey of Auckland tradespeople shows an Inland Revenue campaign highlighting cash jobs has hit home, with four in five believing they’ll get caught if they cheat on their taxes. The survey of nearly 420 tradies followed an advertising campaign ... More >>
Auckland tradesman sentenced to 10 months home detention
Friday, 28 August 2015, 9:17 am | Inland Revenue Department
A recidivist Auckland tax cheat has been sentenced to 10 months home detention and ordered to pay $92,400 reparation, following a second conviction for tax evasion offences. More >>
Richmond tradie gets home detention for tax evasion
Tuesday, 18 August 2015, 4:31 pm | Inland Revenue Department
A Richmond tradesman has been sentenced to four months’ home detention for failing to file tax returns involving more than $92,000. More >>
Taxpayers will save trees as paper gets scrapped
Thursday, 16 July 2015, 10:46 am | Inland Revenue Department
Cutting paper use and increasing digital services for Inland Revenue’s customers will see annual paper savings equivalent to 1,900 trees, or nearly 16 million sheets of A4 paper and seven million envelopes. Inland Revenue has recently introduced a ... More >>
More taxpayers getting more refunds this year, says IRD
Wednesday, 1 July 2015, 1:16 pm | Inland Revenue Department
Nearly 90,000 more New Zealanders have had tax refunds so far this year compared to last year, resulting in almost $50 million more being refunded to taxpayers by Inland Revenue - thanks in large part to communications encouraging taxpayers to ... More >>
Inland Revenue welcomes Alex Swney jail sentence
Wednesday, 24 June 2015, 12:49 pm | Inland Revenue Department
Inland Revenue has welcomed today’s sentencing of Alex Gordon Swney to five years seven months in jail for failing to pay $1.8 million in tax. More >>
Inland Revenue selects partner for new tax system
Monday, 8 June 2015, 2:50 pm | Inland Revenue Department
Inland Revenue has selected Fast Enterprises (Fast) as its preferred supplier to design and supply the software platform that will run New Zealand’s new tax and social policy administration system. Inland Revenue’s Deputy Commissioner Change, ... More >>
Restaurant owners given home detention
Thursday, 28 May 2015, 2:25 pm | Inland Revenue Department
A husband and wife have been sentenced to eight months’ home detention for not declaring more than $1 million in cash sales at their Auckland restaurant. Taruun and Shetall Khurana, who ran the Indian Kitchen restaurant in Howick, were sentenced ... More >>
Attitudes shift as more tradies declare cashies
Monday, 11 May 2015, 11:58 am | Inland Revenue Department
More tradies across New Zealand are declaring all income they earn from cash jobs following the launch of a crackdown on cashies. Lester Binns, Chief Executive of MyTax.co.nz said only one day into Inland Revenue’s campaign he had received around ... More >>
IRD marketing video – OIA response to Taxpayers Union
Thursday, 7 May 2015, 4:15 pm | Inland Revenue Department
Today Inland Revenue responded to an OIA request from the New Zealand Taxpayers Union regarding the cost of this year’s video encouraging people to complete their tax returns online. We’ve attached that OIA response, showing the cost of the video. More >>
Tax cheat rips off tourists
Wednesday, 22 April 2015, 10:07 am | Inland Revenue Department
A Bay of Plenty man has been sentenced to 10 months’ home detention after he used backpackers’ and other tourists’ IRD numbers to file false PAYE tax returns. Inland Revenue’s group manager of investigations and advice, Patrick Goggin, said ... More >>
Work It Out – New Zealand Gets Tax Refund Ready
Monday, 20 April 2015, 12:00 pm | Inland Revenue Department
Customers who may be due a tax refund are being encouraged to “work it out” online, as Inland Revenue enters its busiest time of the year. More >>
Auckland man jailed for make-believe GST refunds
Thursday, 16 April 2015, 10:17 am | Inland Revenue Department
A prolific Auckland offender has been jailed for more than two years for fraudulently claiming GST refunds on behalf of several fictitious businesses. While serving home detention, Andrew Myer McGirr filed false GST claims on several occasions in 2010 ... More >>
Auckland accountant sentenced to more than 2 years jail
Wednesday, 8 April 2015, 1:22 pm | Inland Revenue Department
Auckland accountant sentenced to more than 2 years jail for taxpayer rip-off 8 April 2015 More >>
Cheating church minister sentenced
Wednesday, 1 April 2015, 12:29 pm | Inland Revenue Department
A South Auckland Church Minister who ripped off thousands of taxpayers’ dollars has been sentenced. More >>
Auckland tradie sentenced after turning down helping hand
Thursday, 19 March 2015, 2:42 pm | Inland Revenue Department
A self-employed painter from Castor Bay who ripped off taxpayers by deliberately not paying his fair share of tax has been ordered to pay up. David James Elliott, 44, stole almost $69,000 and was sentenced to six months community detention, 200 ... More >>
Repayment deadline reminder for overseas borrowers
Friday, 6 March 2015, 3:33 pm | Inland Revenue Department
Inland Revenue is reminding overseas-based student loan borrowers, that they need to make repayments by 31 March. More >>
Businessman Who Ripped Off Christchurch Rebuild Sentenced
Friday, 6 March 2015, 10:01 am | Inland Revenue Department
Christchurch businessman Richard Lascelles has been sentenced to 18 months’ home detention for failing to pay more than $400,000 in PAYE deductions from work mostly during the Canterbury rebuild. Lascelles, who had operated three scaffolding businesses, ... More >>
