Revenue

Ensuring revenue is there to fund government programmes and services is the first outcome that Inland Revenue Te Tari Taake (IR) delivers for New Zealand.

We continued to work to make tax simpler and easier to pay, and we have stepped up efforts to collect overdue tax debt.

IR is using a range of compliance capabilities, data and intelligence to address the few who try to deliberately flout the rules and avoid paying their fair share.

We’re steadily increasing compliance activities with additional Budget 2024 funding.

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Making tax simpler collecting revenue efficiently New Zealand has a high level of voluntary compliance when it comes to people paying tax, with little to no contact needed with IR. Nearly 9 out of 10 payments were on time this year, which has helped ensure core tax revenue continues to be reliable from year to year.
$4 billion in overdue tax debt collected Most people want to do the right thing when it comes to paying tax. Over 90% of customers either paid on time this year or negotiated a repayment plan if they could not.
Scaling up enforcement IR has steadily increased enforcement activities this year. While we have worked to ensure customers get things right, a few needed our attention because they ignored us or tried to cheat the system.

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Revenue