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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 >>
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 >>
