Inland Revenue Department (New Zealand)

The Inland Revenue or Inland Revenue Department (IRD; Te Tari Taake) is the public service department of New Zealand charged with advising the government on tax policy, collecting and disbursing payments for social support programmes, and collecting tax.

Taxes in New Zealand are collected at a national level by the Inland Revenue Department (IRD) on behalf of the Government of New Zealand.

The Inland Revenue or Inland Revenue Department (IRD; Te Tari Taake) is the public service department of New Zealand charged with advising the government on tax policy, collecting and disbursing payments for social support programmes, and collecting tax.

Both the New Zealand Ministry of Social Development and Inland Revenue have involvement in jointly delivering the package.

Child Support in New Zealand is regulated by the Child Support Act 1991 and is managed by the Child Support unit of Inland Revenue.

It is the supplier's responsibility to apply, collect and remit the new GST to New Zealand's Inland Revenue Department.

Since October 2017, the position has been held by Stuart Nash.

From 2005 to 2008 he held the posts of Minister of Revenue and Associate Minister of Health as a minister outside of Cabinet with the Labour-led government.

He held a number of ministerial posts, first in the government of Robert Muldoon, including Postmaster-General, Minister of Statistics, Minister in charge of the Inland Revenue Department and Associate Minister of Finance.

Naomi Ferguson is the Commissioner and Chief Executive of the New Zealand Inland Revenue Department.

The Inland Revenue or Inland Revenue Department (IRD; Te Tari Taake) is the public service department of New Zealand charged with advising the government on tax policy, collecting and disbursing payments for social support programmes, and collecting tax.

The Inland Revenue's Māori name is an older spelling of Te Tari Tāke, meaning 'The Department [of] Tax'.

Despite long vowels in Māori now being expressed with macrons over the vowel rather than double vowels, the department continues to use the double vowel due to the resemblance of the word tāke to the English word take.

The department was renamed the Land and Income Tax Department in 1892 with the central office set up in Wellington.

In 1995, a Rewrite Advisory Panel was established to consider and advise on issues arising during the rewriting of the income tax legislation, as part of New Zealand tax reform arising from the Working Party on the Reorganisation of the Income Tax Act 1976.