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A selection of OIA requests that we've responded to in 2025 where the information might be of public interest.

Personally identifiable information has been redacted.

Responses sent during a calendar month are published the following month.

April 2025

Penalties for suppliers that do not collect taxable supply information for goods and services they buy or sell and related legislation 1 Apr 2025 (PDF 208KB) Download document
Health insurance benefits provided to staff and percentage of staff who use benefits from 2014 to present 1 Apr 2025 (PDF 132KB) Download document
Arrests at the border information for overseas-based student loan borrowers 2 Apr 2025 (PDF 215KB) Download document
Copies of IR2025/019: Revised Cabinet paper – Student Loan Scheme Repayment Threshold and BN2025/031: 2025-26 Student loan repayment threshold 3 Apr 2025 (PDF 910KB) Download document
Definitions of micro, small and medium enterprises as used by Inland Revenue 4 Apr 2025 (PDF 168KB) Download document
Provisional tax taxpayers liable to pay over $5k in Residual Income Tax based on 2023 income tax returns 4 Apr 2025 (PDF 818KB) Download document
Copies of BN2025/005, IR2025/019, BN2025/017, 25SR01, BN2025/026, BN2025/020, IR2025/010 & BN2025/031 8 Apr 2025 (PDF 5MB) Download document
Independent contractors engaged by Inland Revenue for more than 5 years as at 20 March 2025 8 Apr 2025 (PDF 337KB) Download document
Total amount of loans issued to small businesses under the SBCS (loan) and repayment details 9 Apr 2025 (PDF 198KB) Download document
Corporate tax rebates for both NZ and multinational companies, transfer pricing investigations 9 Apr 2025 (PDF 965KB) Download document
Data on the disposal of trading stock by businesses 10 Apr 2025 (PDF 178KB) Download document
Total number of businesses and value of tax losses carried forward for period 1 April 2020-31 March 2024 10 Apr 2025 (PDF 232KB) Download document
Inland Revenue's written approvals for disclosing information to social media platforms and details on the internal review of the unintended disclosures 14 Apr 2025 (PDF 1MB) Download document
Total number of Kiwisaver members, total amount of GVC paid, and total number receiving GVC 14 Apr 2025 (PDF 488KB) Download document
Total number of FTEs, redundancies and disestablished roles by ethnicity and job title 15 Apr 2025 (PDF 1MB) Download document
Documents relating to the total spend within Inland Revenue specific to Ngāti Rangi region 16 Apr 2025 (PDF 240KB) Download document
Individual taxpayers with rental property income and paid PAYE tax or declared income from self-employment in 2019-24 23 Apr 2025 (PDF 400KB) Download document
Donation tax credits paid by Inland Revenue in the last 5 tax years 28 Apr 2025 (PDF 223KB) Download document
Inland Revenue's Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Plan for myIR 28 Apr 2025 (PDF 144KB) Download document

March 2025

Average student loan repayment time by living and tuition costs for 2005, 2010, 2015, 2020 and 2024 4 Mar 2025 (PDF 507KB) Download document
Copies of 9 reports, 4 briefing notes and 3 weekly status reports 4 Mar 2025 (PDF 7MB) Download document
Income tax collected from age groups under 21 4 Mar 2025 (PDF 2MB) Download document
Information collected in activity logs when using myIR 4 Mar 2025 (PDF 567KB) Download document
Inland Revenue's audit process and policy regarding charitable organisations 5 Mar 2025 (PDF 203KB) Download document
Inland Revenue's email archiving retention and disposal policy 5 Mar 2025 (PDF 148KB) Download document
Company tax by industry and foreign ownership by ANZSIC 6 Mar 2025 (PDF 836KB) Download document
Inland Revenue's definition of Māori data, and Māori data sovereignty or governance strategy/policy 6 Mar 2025 (PDF 5MB) Download document
Companies Inland Revenue uses for advertising, public relations and hashing data for 3rd party platforms 7 Mar 2025 (PDF 223KB) Download document
High-wealth individuals research project data not in the public domain 10 Mar 2025 (PDF 121KB) Download document
Copies of BN2025/017: US Presidential memo about the Global Minimum Tax, and BN2025/031: Student loan repayment threshold 13 Mar 2025 (PDF 1MB) Download document
Total interest charged, outstanding balances and write-offs for the Small Business Cashflow Scheme 13 Mar 2025 (PDF 322KB) Download document
Inland Revenue's use of AI, list of AI technologies and purposes, governance framework and benefits of AI use 14 Mar 2025 (PDF 9MB) Download document
Structure and salary bands for Inland Revenue's Tax Counsel Office 18 Mar 2025 (PDF 386KB) Download document
Student loan border arrests since the current Government took office 18 Mar 2025 (PDF 113KB) Download document
Copies of BN2025/017: US Presidential memo about the Global Minimum Tax, and IR2025/010: Tax monitoring report - collections to December 2024 19 Mar 2025 (PDF 1MB) Download document
Total discrepancies for property tax from 2009 to 2025, main home exemption for compliance, and history of the IR833 form 19 Mar 2025 (PDF 343KB) Download document
Total returns reviewed for incorrect or fraudulent activity, and number of fraud or hidden economy audits from 2018 to 2024 19 Mar 2025 (PDF 392KB) Download document
Accepted methods for advanced pricing agreements (APAs) and transfer prices for goods and services 20 Mar 2025 (PDF 233KB) Download document
Charging GST on advance customer payments for services from registered vendors 21 Mar 2025 (PDF 110KB) Download document
Communications, advice, decisions and documents on the internal review of using custom audience lists, and Taxpayers' Union public statements 26 Mar 2025 (PDF 21MB) Download document
Number of 18 to 25-year-olds receiving the KiwiSaver government voluntary contribution (GVC) since 2020 27 Mar 2025 (PDF 240KB) Download document

February 2025

Number of people receiving income under sCB6 of the ITA, property transfer data, and FTE property compliance employees 3 Feb 2025 (PDF 500KB) Download document
Copies of BN2024/415: Response to Xero, and BN2024/419: Timing used in income tax policy costing advice 4 Feb 2025 (PDF 2MB) Download document
Working for Families tax credit entitlements received in the Masterton district over the last 5 years 4 Feb 2025 (PDF 145KB) Download document
Copy of BN2024/415: Response to Xero 4 Feb 2025 (PDF 1MB) Download document
Rented or sublet accommodation provided to employees 4 Feb 2025 (PDF 143KB) Download document
The Commissioner's decision to no longer supply hashed data to social media platforms 7 Feb 2025 (PDF 143KB) Download document
Types of privacy breaches recorded in the last 5 years 7 Feb 2025 (PDF 369KB) Download document
Number of contractors hired from January 2018 to February 2025 who were previous Inland Revenue employees 10 Feb 2025 (PDF 353KB) Download document
Legislation allowing Inland Revenue to share personal information without taxpayer consent 11 Feb 2025 (PDF 270KB) Download form
Total number of myIR logins, and number of myIR logins using RealMe, UserID and password 11 Feb 2025 (PDF 282KB) Download document
Number of farms in New Zealand by ANZSIC codes, and GST turnover by band for 2023-24 12 Feb 2025 (PDF 351KB) Download document
Small Business Cashflow (SBC) loan recovery data since January 2022 12 Feb 2025 (PDF 314KB) Download document
Verification process for issuing IRD numbers and sharing information with Immigration New Zealand 13 Feb 2025 (PDF 474KB) Download document
Requirement to provide personal information for in-store purchases over $1,000 17 Feb 2025 (PDF 207KB) Download document
Total problem gambling levy, gaming duties revenue and FBT paid by the horse-racing and gambling industries since 2021 17 Feb 2025 (PDF 648KB) Download document
Sharing the summary of earnings report with ACC under the information-sharing agreement 18 Feb 2025 (PDF 171KB) Download document
Method of calculating prescribed interest rates for fringe benefit tax 24 Feb 2025 (PDF 139KB) Download document
FamilyBoost claim applications received, approved and declined by region 26 Feb 2025 (PDF 419KB) Download document
Purpose and use of income tax, GST, excise duty and customs duty 26 Feb 2025 (PDF 288KB) Download document
Quarterly FamilyBoost payments by region 26 Feb 2025 (PDF 342KB) Download document
Aggregated, anonymized data and survey documents for the HWI research project 27 Feb 2025 (PDF 141KB) Download document
Bankruptcy and liquidation write-off totals for 2022 and 2023 27 Feb 2025 (PDF 429KB) Download document
Total PAYE and GST currently overdue, and total amounts written off for last 10 years 27 Feb 2025 (PDF 420KB) Download document

January 2025

Contracts, communications and financial information for software solution and information service companies 15 Jan 2025 (PDF 509KB) Download document
Outstanding tax liabilities waived in the last 2 years from organisations and registered charities 21 Jan 2025 (PDF 384KB) Download document
Income and revenue by ANZSIC level 4 industry code for the last 5 tax years 23 Jan 2025 (PDF 244KB) Download document
Far North and Northland region student loan debt data 28 Jan 2025 (PDF 1MB) Download document
Number of fraud reports received annually and statistics on investigations completed 30 Jan 2025 (PDF 162KB) Download document
Last updated: 03 Jun 2025
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