2005 media releases
Are you eligible for a childcare rebate?
29 March 2005
With the tax season for 2005 about to get underway, Inland Revenue is is reminding parents that they of may be able to claim a rebate for childcare costs and school fees.
You may apply for a rebate if you earned a taxable income (e.g. salary, wages, benefit, self-employed income) between 1 April 2004 and 31 March 2005 and did any of the following:
- you paid for childcare as a working parent
- you paid school fees
- you paid for a housekeeper, where you or your partner were disabled or physically unable to do housework
- you donated $5 or more to a charitable organisation.
"During April, we will automatically send rebate claim forms to people who claimed a rebate last year for donations, childcare or housekeeper rebates," says Colin MacDonald, Deputy Commissioner Business Development and Systems.
"Remember to attach receipts to the claim form, as we're unable to process your rebate without receipts."
People who haven't received a rebate claim form by the end of April can request one by visiting www.ird.govt.nz , or by ringing our automated stationery line on 0800 257 773. (Remember to have your IRD number handy.)
For more information about tax rebates, visit www.ird.govt.nz . Our website has recently been redesigned and is now more user-friendly than ever. As well as checking out the site's information, forms and stationery, viewers can also calculate their tax and refunds online .
Other media releases this year
- Tip-off leads to jail sentence for dishonest tax agent
- Family assistance payments to be available early
- Inland Revenue releases new tax rules for people who host boarders
- GST fraud gets jail sentence for Auckland property developer
- Inland Revenue seeks owners of forgotten money
- Family Assistance Payments to be made early
- High Wealth programme brings in millions of extra tax dollars
- Identity theft, fraud lead to jail for Palmerston North man
- Reimbursement for the use of a private motor vehicle
- Hamilton man sentenced on tax fraud
- Auckland consultant gets 12 months in jail for GST fraud
- Inland Revenue signs Hewlett Packard to supply Notebook Computers
- Tauranga man jailed for horticultural tax evasion
- New Zealand and Australian tax help for business
- Salary and wage earners: are you entitled to a tax refund?
- Some seasonal workers entitled to tax refunds
- Auckland barrister jailed for tax evasion
- Inland Revenue reminding Marlborough agriculturalists
- Inland Revenue Appoints Chief Information Officer (IT)
- Incident at Upper Hutt Processing Centre
- Forged GST claim leads to eight-month prison sentence
- Inland Revenue offers help to flood affected BOP businesses
- Auckland Man jailed for tax fraud
- Inland Revenue releases view on HHG capital reduction proposals
- Prison sentence for tax evasion
- Early Family Assistance Payments
- Nine years of tax evasion brings 18 month sentence for New Plymouth bricklayer
- Tax season now underway
- Early Family Assistance Payments
- Inland Revenue signs agreement with TelstraClear
- Inland Revenue cautions against income splitting by professionals
- Inland Revenue welcomes sentence for Hamilton PAYE offence
- Cambridge students scoop national award for tax knowledge
- US, NZ agree on tax treatment of fiscally transparent entities
- 7 February payment deadline
- Theft of Westpac courier bag - advice to taxpayers and other Inland Revenue customers
- Inland Revenue not letting up on BoP tax evasion
- Inland Revenue outlines rebate claim process for tsunami donations
- Inland Revenue welcomes sentence in $40,000 evasion case
Corporate Affairs
Inland Revenue
To make a media query:
Phone 04 890 1698 or email mediaqueries@ird.govt.nz
Please note, the email address is only for enquiries from the news media. It is monitored during normal business hours 8am - 5pm Monday to Friday.
P O Box 2198
Wellington 6140
New Zealand
Date published: 29 Mar 2005
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