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Inland Revenue Stops Using Custom Audience Lists
Tuesday, 5 November 2024, 1:58 pm | Inland Revenue Department
Prior to the review Inland Revenue has always believed that sufficient work was done to ensure the security of customer details within the hashing and custom-list creation process. More >>
Worst Tax Offending Of Its Kind Sends Christchurch Woman To Prison
Friday, 1 November 2024, 12:21 pm | Inland Revenue Department
On 63 occasions between August 2019 and September 2022 APG failed to pay the full amounts of $1,602,864.17. More >>
Anonymous Information Leads To IR Visits
Friday, 1 November 2024, 10:49 am | Inland Revenue Department
The visits are another round in IR’s Hidden Economy suite of work and follows on from the successful liquor store campaign in the past year. More >>
COVID Relief Fraudster Sentenced
Thursday, 24 October 2024, 1:14 pm | Inland Revenue Department
Jarryd Delroy Hector will serve 11 months home detention and do 150 hours community service. More >>
Failure To Declare Income Results In Home Detention
Friday, 18 October 2024, 12:07 pm | Inland Revenue Department
Kahdim Ali was sentenced in the Manukau District Court on October 4 after pleading guilty to 35 charges including evading or attempting to evade the assessment or payment of personal income tax, GST as well as income tax and GST of his company. More >>
Air Conditioning Installer Sentenced For Tax Fraud
Monday, 30 September 2024, 12:12 pm | Inland Revenue Department
David Wayne Field was sentenced in the Hutt Valley District Court on September 24 on 15 charges of knowingly filing false and misleading GST returns, not filing income tax and GST returns and failing to apply for registration for GST. More >>
Feilding Man Sentenced On Tax Evasion
Thursday, 19 September 2024, 3:09 pm | Inland Revenue Department
He faced representative charges of aiding or abetting another to take deductions from staff wages but didn’t pass it on to Inland Revenue; and didn’t provide GST returns with the intent to evade the assessment or payment of tax. More >>
Inland Revenue Releases Draft Guidance For Online Investment Platform Users
Tuesday, 13 August 2024, 3:36 pm | Inland Revenue Department
It is aimed at investors who use online investment platforms to buy and sell shares, but the principles also apply to other ways of investing in shares, such as using a broker. The draft guidance is out for public consultation until 24 September 2024. More >>
Community Detention For Made Up Tax Returns And COVID Fraud
Friday, 9 August 2024, 4:31 pm | Inland Revenue Department
All of the SBCS applications submitted by Hakaraia were false as none of the companies had any business activity. or had suffered a 30% drop in revenue. More >>
COVID Fraud Sentence For South Auckland Man
Friday, 9 August 2024, 4:29 pm | Inland Revenue Department
Inland Revenue’s investigation confirmed Aki applied for the COVID relief and the income tax refunds using other people and businesses logons and used his personal bank account for the money to be deposited into. More >>
Former HB Hairdresser Sentenced For Tax Fraud
Friday, 9 August 2024, 4:26 pm | Inland Revenue Department
He filed false GST claims and applied for a Small Business Cashflow Scheme (SBCS) loan that he knew he wasn’t entitled to. More >>
Tax Evasion Sends Auckland Couple To Prison
Thursday, 18 July 2024, 5:20 pm | Inland Revenue Department
Judge Andrée Wiltens found that the overall evasion of income tax and GST amounted to about $750,000, with a further $80,000 in unaccounted for PAYE. After some PAYE payments were made, the total loss was about $800,000. More >>
Watch Out For Scammers This 2024 Tax Season
Monday, 17 June 2024, 1:39 pm | Inland Revenue Department
From past experience, we know that when we send out these assessments, scammers know and increase their attempts to rip off Kiwis. So, we’re warning taxpayers to be extra vigilant and watch out for scammers. More >>
Cut Your Excuses And Sort Your Tax
Tuesday, 9 April 2024, 9:41 am | Inland Revenue Department
Inland Revenue’s Richard Philp says if people do the right thing, Inland Revenue will help them. If they don’t, Inland Revenue will find them and start follow-up action. More >>
Auckland Cafe Owner Imprisoned On Tax Evasion Charges
Tuesday, 2 April 2024, 2:15 pm | Inland Revenue Department
Elizabeth Juilian Tangikau was sentenced to two years and three months imprisonment at the Auckland District Court on March 26, 2024. More >>
Imprisonment Sentence To Deter Tax Offending
Tuesday, 20 February 2024, 11:08 am | Inland Revenue Department
A former construction company director has been jailed on tax charges. In 2021, Stephen Eugene Foley was found guilty by a jury of aiding and abetting his construction companies (HPTP 2014 Ltd and Point to Point Construction Ltd) of deducting PAYE from ... More >>
Waikato Sharemilker Sentenced On Tax And COVID Support Fraud
Wednesday, 7 February 2024, 1:02 pm | Inland Revenue Department
A Waikato sharemilker who used COVID support money on online gambling was sentenced to nine months home detention at a court appearance this month. Gordon Kenneth Morris was sentenced in the Hamilton District Court on 1 February. He was charged with submitting ... More >>
Family Tax Credit Fraud Lands Woman Home Detention
Tuesday, 30 January 2024, 11:47 am | Inland Revenue Department
An Auckland woman was sentenced to home detention on charges spanning nine years, involving false claims for Working for Families Tax credits (WfFTC) for 11 children. Phyllis Kiritehanga Kathleen Tipene faced 17 representative charges, along with a ... More >>
Gisborne Fisherman Sentenced On Tax Evasion Charges
Wednesday, 20 December 2023, 1:50 pm | Inland Revenue Department
A Gisborne fisherman has been sentenced to seven and a half months home detention and 100 hours community work on tax evasion charges. Reweti Ruka Waikari was sentenced in the Gisborne District Court on 19 December on 3 representative charges of trying ... More >>
Home Detention For COVID Tax Fraud
Thursday, 30 November 2023, 12:16 pm | Inland Revenue Department
A Te Awamutu man has been sentenced to home detention after falsely claiming COVID-19 money meant to help businesses recover after the pandemic. Nathanael Thomas Ballard was charged with dishonestly and without claim of right applying for Small ... More >>
