Inland Revenue Department (New Zealand)

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Inland Revenue Department
Māori : Te Tari Taake
Inland Revenue Department
Jurisdiction State tax revenue
legal form Public Service Department
Headquarters Wellington
Establishment date 1878
minister Minister of Revenue
Stuart Nash , Labor Party
since October 26, 2017
Employee over 5 500
As of August 2018
budget NZ $ 814.629 million
as of June 30, 2017
Website : www.ird.govt.nz

The Inland Revenue Department (IRD), in Māori Te Tari Taake , is a Public Service Department in New Zealand that is primarily responsible for the country's tax revenue.

history

The establishment of the Inland Revenue Department goes back to the year 1878, when with the Land Tax Act 1878 the colony of New Zealand was fiscally divided into different districts for the first time and the Land Tax Department was established for the central administration of tax revenues . Renamed the Property Tax Department in 1879 , the Land and Income Assessment Act 1891 changed the name again to Land and Income Tax Department . In 1952, then finally with the Inland Revenue Department Act 1952 , a merger with the Stamp Duties Department made and the Department received with Inland Revenue Department its final name.

tasks

The Inland Revenue Department , which has over 5500 employees in 17 cities and towns in New Zealand, now includes not only the collection of taxes from individuals, companies and organizations, but also payments in the area of ​​social welfare and provision.

tax income

In fiscal June 1016/17, the Inland Revenue Department earned NZ $ 70.1 billion  , accounting for around 80% of the country's total government revenue for the period.

Most of the income came from the country's 3.7 million taxpayers, around 203,000 employers and around 396,000 companies, as well as from around 633,000 registered customers who paid their Goods and Services Tax (GST) in around 3 million transactions .

Social expenses

During the fiscal year mentioned above, the IRD spent around NZ $ 2.4 billion on supporting working families and NZ $ 274 million on 28,400 parents unable to work because of their babies. Also under management Department around 5.6 billion NZ $ under the KiwiSaver program, in 2017 approximately 2.8 million New Zealanders their retirement operate in the state in June with the support of the state. In addition, around 733,000 students received government loans through the IRD, amounting to NZ $ 1.3 billion. The payment of child benefit is another service provided by the department .

literature

  • Annual Report 2017 . Inland Revenue Department , 2017, ISSN  2230-6005 (English, online [PDF; 10.2 MB ; accessed on August 9, 2018]).
  • Fiona McKergow : The "taxwoman": 101 years of women working in the Inland Revenue Department, 1892-1993 . Ed .: Inland Revenue Department in collaboration with the Historical Branch, Department of Internal Affairs . Wellington 1993, ISBN 0-477-01661-8 (English).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Hon. Stuart Nash . New Zealand Parliament , June 19, 2018, accessed August 9, 2018 .
  2. ↑ About us . Inland Revenue , accessed August 9, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Annual Report 2017 . Inland Revenue Department , 2017, p.  106 .
  4. ↑ Land Tax Department . In: Taranaki Herald (ed.): Taranaki Herald . Volume XXVI , Issue 2987 . New Plymouth November 28, 1878, p.  2 (English, govt.nz [accessed December 10, 2011]).
  5. ↑ Robert J. Vosslamber : Taxing and Pleasing: The rhetoric and reality of vertical equity in the development of the New Zealand income tax on employees, 1891 to 1984 . Ed .: University of Canterbury . Christchurch 2010 (English, Online [PDF; 2.9  MB ; accessed on December 10, 2011]).
  6. ↑ Annual Report 2017 . Inland Revenue Department , 2017, p.  7 .
  7. ↑ Annual Report 2017 . Inland Revenue Department , 2017, p.  9 .
  8. ↑ Annual Report 2017 . Inland Revenue Department , 2017, p.  2 .
  9. ↑ a b Annual Report 2017 . Inland Revenue Department , 2017, p.  8 .