NZ IRD highlight the steps to work out the type of repair and maintenance costs of the leaky building (as a rental property) and whether you can claim them as a deduction. 

How to prevent and what to do if you have been a victim of identity fraud.

Taxes are one of life’s few certainties, but that doesn’t mean they’re necessarily the most efficient use of your capital.

Tax pooling is a framework Inland Revenue established to help taxpayers meet their provisional tax obligations. Recognising that the provisional tax regime is burdensome, Inland Revenue offers tax pooling which gives taxpayers a means to pay tax when they want to whilst avoiding use of money interest and penalties.

An update to help employers with the latest NZ fringe benefit tax (FBT) requirements.

NZ Inland Revenue is improving services in myIR for managing your GST, with new services available in early 2017.

If you are a trustee of a trust this information applies to you.

IRD stated that it would continue to hold a resigned trustee responsible for a trust’s taxes until it receives written advice of the resignation. This liability continues until any debt is paid.

To accompany the changes in the tax laws from 1 October 2015, the IRD has now introduced new IRD number application forms for non-resident/offshore non-individuals (IR744) and non-resident/offshore individuals (IR742).
 
These require far more detailed information to be supplied than previously. We outline the key changes.

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 shows that the message that doing under-the-table jobs is a tax crime is getting through.

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IRD proposes updating how employee car parking spaces are treated for fringe benefits tax.

Whilst the new ruling is yet to be adopted, it's worth getting your head around it now.

The Inland Revenue have announced a focus on the cash economy particularly in the trade’s sector with, as part of a wider campaign, a particular focus on sub-contractors in Flatbush, Takanini, Silverdale and Albany. If you think you're fine because you haven’t been operating in those areas, be aware that it mightn't take much to be pulled into an IRD investigation as part of another's investigation.

From 1 October 2014 the Inland Revenue is changing its current payment services through Westpac and how it views payments as having been 'received on time'.