More than 1,100 customers have opted for more certainty around their provisional tax obligations by signing up for the new Accounting Income Method (AIM).

Statement from the Commissioner of Inland Revenue Naomi Ferguson:

Problems with Inland Revenue’s GST processing system, we now believe are resolved, were tracked down to a network load rebalancer at IR’s telecommunications provider.

Following the introduction of the new accounting income method (AIM) there are now four options for managing provisional tax, so small businesses can use the one best suited to their...

Inland Revenue’s customer services will be unavailable for just over four days this week as it rolls out the next stage of its programme to transform the tax system.

A team of five practising accountants is working at Inland Revenue to provide crucial advice on the design of its online services.

A sophisticated email scam is doing the rounds using Inland Revenue branding to trick people into giving up their credit card details.

A new tax bill introduced to Parliament will mean automatic tax refunds for around 750,000 New Zealanders.

New initiatives to make the tax system fairer and a crackdown on tax dodgers are expected to provide the Government with an extra $726.3 million of revenue over the next...

New measures to ensure multinational companies pay their fair share of tax will come into force next week.

New legislation to improve the fairness of the tax system and prevent large multinationals from exploiting rules in order to shift their profits offshore has passed another step closer to...

New Zealand has received the top rating in an international review of tax transparency and exchange of information standards.

Christchurch restaurateur Jonathon Charles Schwass has been given six months’ home detention for not passing on more than $250,000 of his employees’ tax deductions.

An anonymous tip-off has led to a Hamilton tradesman being sentenced to nine months’ home detention for not paying nearly $240,000 in tax.

A businessman involved in the Canterbury rebuild has been sentenced to three years and four months in jail for not paying $1,517,293 of his employee’s tax deductions to Inland Revenue.