Individual income tax
Individual income tax return guide 2008 IR3G
About this form
This guide helps you fill in your IR3 return for the 2008 year.
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When to use this form
If you received any other income apart from salary, wages, interest, dividends and/or taxable Maori authority distributions, you must file an IR3 return.
Other income includes:
- self-employed income
- over $200 of withholding payments
- income derived overseas
- over $200 of interest and dividends derived overseas that have had tax deducted
- overseas interest and dividends that have had no tax deducted
- rental income
- estate, trust or partnership income
- royalties
- cash jobs or payments "under the table"
- income from illegal enterprises
- income without PAYE deducted, such as shareholder-employee salary or a claim received under a taxable loss of earnings policy.
You'll also need to file an IR3 if you:
- have losses to claim or brought forward from the previous year
- have excess imputation credits brought forward from the previous year
- left or arrived in New Zealand part-way through the year
- are filing a return for a deceased person to the date of death if there is a requirement to file a return for this income year
- were declared bankrupt part-way through the year
- changed your balance date part-way through the year.
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