Choose to stop being a look-through company

All Income tax dates

Before you start

You will need the:

company’s name and IRD number
name, signature and IRD number of one of the owners of a look-through interest in the look-through company.

The revocation application must be made by the current owner.

Print and complete the Revocation of look-through company election - IR896 form.

If you use your own document you will need to use the same headings as the Revocation of look-through company election - IR896 form.

You will need to include your:

Attach the form to a web message in myIR

Other ways to do this

Inland Revenue
PO Box 39010
Wellington Mail Centre
Lower Hutt 5045

We'll send a letter confirming that your look-through company has become an ordinary company and the date the change applies from.
You can only choose to stop being a look-through company from the start of an income year. We can only backdate the change under exceptional circumstances.
If the look-through company used to be a qualifying company it will not go back to being a qualifying company.