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Watch Out For Scammers This Tax Season
Friday, 15 May 2026, 10:40 am | Inland Revenue Department
Individual Income Tax Assessments will go out in several large batches, starting at the beginning of June and going until the end of July. More >>
High Trust COVID Relief Schemes Abused
Wednesday, 6 May 2026, 12:45 pm | Inland Revenue Department
Between May 2020 and March 2022 Harry Singh dishonestly submitted 23 applications to Inland Revenue, in his own name and the names of 15 different taxpayers. More >>
Mother And Daughter Sentenced For Tax Evasion
Thursday, 30 April 2026, 9:56 am | Inland Revenue Department
The Judge said while the amount of the evasion is large there is no suggestion they lived a lavish lifestyle as a result of the offending. More >>
COVID And Tax Fraud Results In Home Detention Sentence
Tuesday, 28 April 2026, 5:00 pm | Inland Revenue Department
All three were implemented using a ‘high trust’ model so businesses could get help with the adverse effects of the pandemic. The money was to help with core business expenses. More >>
Near Maximum Home Detention Sentence For Unpaid Tax
Wednesday, 17 December 2025, 1:49 pm | Inland Revenue Department
Charles Stuart Robinson was sentenced in the Auckland District Court on 16 Dec on 40 charges of aiding and abetting two companies – Robinson Interiors Ltd and Platinum Window Systems Ltd – to take PAYE from staff wages but not pass the money on to ... More >>
Man Returns From Australia To Face Home Detention Sentence
Thursday, 20 November 2025, 3:05 pm | Inland Revenue Department
Matthew Keith Sanders appeared in the Auckland District Court on 19 November 2025 and was sentenced to 11 months home detention. More >>
Pukekohe Woman Sentenced On Tax Evasion
Wednesday, 24 September 2025, 12:30 pm | Inland Revenue Department
Haitelenisia Kaumavae appeared for sentence in the Pukekohe District Court on 23 September having plead guilty to 4 representative charges of tax evasion for aiding and abetting the company M & H Kaumavae Ltd (M&H). More >>
Woman Sentenced On Tax Fraud Charges
Tuesday, 19 August 2025, 10:56 am | Inland Revenue Department
Ashby also sought 2 GST returns to be paid into the accounts she controlled; however the money was not paid out. More >>
First Sentencing For Possession Of Tax Evasion Tools
Friday, 18 July 2025, 8:54 am | Inland Revenue Department
There’s no other purpose to ESST other than to facilitate tax evasion or money laundering. They’re being used globally to systematically alter point-of-sale data collected to understate or completely conceal revenue to evade tax. More >>
Former Tax Agent Sentenced For COVID Relief Fraud
Monday, 14 July 2025, 2:33 pm | Inland Revenue Department
Howard Kane Taylor was sentenced in the Auckland District court on 11 July. He pleaded guilty to the 8 charges just days before his trial was due to start earlier this year. More >>
Horticulture Sector In The Spotlight
Wednesday, 18 June 2025, 11:25 am | Inland Revenue Department
Most people do the right thing and pay the right amount of tax, however in the past 10 months IR has found $45m of undeclared tax in the horticulture industry. More >>
Tax Assessment Period A Prime Time For Scams, Expert Warns
Friday, 6 June 2025, 10:26 am | Inland Revenue Department
Mark Gorrie, Managing Director Norton APAC says,“Our latest Q1 2025 Threat Report points out that breached data and AI tools are giving cybercriminals just enough personal information and design sophistication to easily manipulate people.” More >>
Compliance Work Continues At Pace
Monday, 7 April 2025, 10:21 am | Inland Revenue Department
From September to December last year, 164 companies were liquidated by the courts on application by Inland Revenue – an increase of 84% over the same period in 2023. Inland Revenue wrote off $83.9m related to completed liquidations. More >>
Home Detention For Tax Offences
Friday, 4 April 2025, 9:05 am | Inland Revenue Department
Victoria Sabrina Kalapa was sentenced in the Auckland District Court on 2 April. She was charged with aiding or abetting a company she controlled to make PAYE deductions which it didn’t pay to Inland Revenue (IR). More >>
Improving myIR Security Campaign Continues
Thursday, 6 March 2025, 10:10 am | Inland Revenue Department
Inland Revenue started calling customers about two-step verification (2SV) near the end of January. As at the end of February, calls were made to nearly 47,000 people and almost 10,000 people had set up 2SV as a result. More >>
Community Detention For Tax Fraud
Monday, 17 February 2025, 3:25 pm | Inland Revenue Department
There were a number of criteria to be eligible for the loan, including that the business must be viable and ongoing, and the loan must be used for the business and not given to the shareholders or owners for personal use. More >>
Prison For Tax Evasion
Monday, 16 December 2024, 10:05 am | Inland Revenue Department
Wai Kheong Kong was involved in architectural work in the Auckland area through his company Landmark 2022 Ltd, previously trading as Arris Architecture Ltd. Landmark was put into liquidation in March 2023. More >>
Full Throttle On Compliance Work
Wednesday, 11 December 2024, 10:03 am | Inland Revenue Department
Tony Morris says IR makes it easy for people to get things right; hard for people to get it wrong; and costly for the few who deliberately try to avoid their tax obligations. More >>
Focus On Overseas Student Loan And Child Support Debt
Friday, 15 November 2024, 9:08 am | Inland Revenue Department
It is part of IR’s work, using the $29 million allocated for compliance in this year’s Budget, to increase debt collection in countries such as Australia and the United Kingdom. More >>
Jailed For COVID Fraud Committed In A Time Of National Crisis
Tuesday, 12 November 2024, 5:21 pm | Inland Revenue Department
McNally was sentenced on 68 charges, 21 of which were Inland Revenue (IR) charges involving Small Business Cashflow scheme (SBCS) fraud. The other charges were Ministry of Social Development (MSD) fraud charges and police charges. More >>
