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Use these details to contact us about income tax for businesses and individuals.

Call us about income tax

Your query Phone number Current call wait times
Personal (within NZ) 0800 227 774 Call wait times unavailable
Business (within NZ) 0800 377 774 Call wait times unavailable
Personal (overseas callers) +64 4 832 5223 Call wait times unavailable
Business (overseas callers) +64 4 832 5205 Call wait times unavailable

Calling hours (New Zealand time)

Our calling hours are Monday to Friday, 8am to 6pm.

Calling toll-free from overseas

If you are overseas, you may be able to call our toll-free numbers depending on where you are calling from. 

Toll-free numbers for overseas callers

Get help with hearing or language

Find out about our language and accessibility options for Deaf and hearing-impaired services, and services in other languages. 

This includes an option to listen to our services more slowly when you call us.

Language and accessibility options

Write to us about income tax

Our postal address is:

Inland Revenue
PO Box 39090
Wellington Mail Centre
Lower Hutt 5045
New Zealand

Contact us in myIR

There are many self-service options in myIR, or you can use myIR to send us a secure web message. 

Send us a message in myIR

Contact us about the temporary loss carry-back (LCB) scheme and Small Business Cashflow (loan) scheme (SBCS)

Before you contact us, check out the information on our website, as it may have the answer you're looking for.

Temporary loss carry-back scheme

Small Business Cashflow (Loan) Scheme

If you have more questions or requests for either of these schemes, you can send a secure message in your myIR account – for the LCB scheme, select 'Income Tax', message category 'Other' and message type Loss carry-back scheme'.

Our team will contact you as soon as they can. 


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Last updated: 10 Aug 2026
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