Five members of one family sentenced for tax evasion
02 October 2019
Five members of one family have been sentenced to prison and home detention or ordered to pay reparations after a $2.3 million tax evasion case brought by Inland Revenue.
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Oamaru embraces AIM
19 September 2019
An Oamaru accountant is an enthusiastic advocate of Inland Revenue’s new provisional tax option, the Accounting Income Method (AIM).
IR cases in the courts
18 September 2019
Working with customers to get their tax right is IR’s preferred approach. However, when all other avenues fail, we consider taking prosecution action.
Prison sentence for not 'walking the walk'
17 September 2019
A Manawatu woman has been jailed for keeping her employees PAYE and ignoring her own tax advice.
Calling 'time' on cheques
10 September 2019
Inland Revenue and the Accident Compensation Corporation are calling ‘time’ on cheques.
Cryptocurrency tax guidance extended to cover employee share schemes
06 September 2019
Inland Revenue is extending its guidance on cryptocurrencies to cover their use in employee share schemes.
False GST and income tax claims lead to home detention
27 August 2019
A South Auckland woman was sentenced to 11 months home detention and ordered to repay more than $60,000 to Inland Revenue after falsely claiming GST and income tax refunds.
Mercury NZ v CIR - court case
26 August 2019
The recent court case between Inland Revenue and Mercury NZ Ltd is only the second time New Zealand courts have analysed the modern depreciation regime, introduced in 1993.
Bulgarian data breach information
26 August 2019
Following the recent data breach at the Bulgarian National Revenue Agency (BNRA), the agency has confirmed that a small number of people with New Zealand investments who are tax residents...
Tax treatment of land use payments clarified
23 August 2019
Revenue Minister Stuart Nash has announced his intention to introduce a legislative amendment to ensure that payments received by a land owner from the grant of a land right (such...