New Zealand's GST, provisional tax and payday filing require steady discipline. As the home of Xero, NZ expects clean cloud books — which is exactly how we work. You get a written quote within 24 hours.
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Xero was founded in Wellington and is effectively the national standard; payday filing means PAYE information goes to Inland Revenue at every pay run.
| Obligation | Frequency | Due | Authority |
|---|---|---|---|
| GST return and paymentGST-registered businesses on the standard two-monthly cycle | Two-monthly | 28th of the month after the taxable period ends — except 15 January for the November period and 7 May for the March period | IRD |
| Provisional tax instalments (standard option)Businesses with a 31 March balance date | Quarterly | 28 August, 15 January, 7 May | IRD |
| IR4 company income tax return | Annual | 7 July, extended to 31 March the following year through a tax agent | IRD |
| PAYE employment information and paymentEmployers | Monthly | 20th of the following month for small employers; 5th and 20th for large employers | IRD |
Last reviewed against the source . These are the standard dates. Extensions through a registered agent, a non-calendar year end, and volume-based filing frequencies all shift them — confirm your own dates with IRD. This is general information, not tax advice.
Thirteen services across three teams, each described for New Zealand specifically rather than in general. Compliance is deliberately a separate team from bookkeeping, so liability and pricing stay clean.
New Zealand is Xero's home market, and NZ businesses expect books that are genuinely current rather than reconstructed each period. We reconcile continuously so the two-monthly GST return — the 28th of the month after the period, except 15 January and 7 May — comes straight off the ledger, and so your 31 March balance date arrives with nothing outstanding.
Bookkeeping in New ZealandA New Zealand backlog usually shows up as unfiled GST sitting alongside provisional tax nobody recalculated. Because instalments fall on 28 August, 15 January and 7 May under the standard option, an under-payment accrues use-of-money interest silently. We rebuild the Xero file period by period so GST can be filed and the provisional position corrected in the same pass.
Catch-Up Bookkeeping in New ZealandNew Zealand cleanups are more often about GST basis than GST coding. A file switched between payments and invoice basis, or never adjusted for zero-rated exports, will reconcile internally and still be wrong. We test the basis, correct the treatment transaction by transaction in Xero, and restate the periods so the ledger and the filed returns finally agree.
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Get a quote for accounts receivable in New ZealandPayday filing turned New Zealand payroll from a monthly return into a per-run obligation: employment information goes to Inland Revenue with every pay. Payment follows on the 20th of the following month for small employers, and on the 5th and 20th for large ones. We run Smartly or Xero Payroll and reconcile PAYE to the ledger monthly so the two never drift apart.
Payroll in New ZealandA New Zealand controller closes against a 31 March balance date and a two-monthly GST cycle, and the value sits in the discipline between them: reconciled control accounts, a documented close calendar, and accrual accounts good enough for provisional tax to be estimated properly rather than defaulted to the standard uplift. We own the close and hand your accountant a finished file.
Controller in New ZealandProvisional tax is where New Zealand cash planning actually lives. Instalments fall on 28 August, 15 January and 7 May for a 31 March balance date, and use-of-money interest starts once real profit outruns what was paid. A virtual CFO forecasts taxable profit through the year so instalments are sized deliberately rather than uplifted by default.
Read the New Zealand virtual cfo guideThe IR4 company return is due 7 July, extended to 31 March of the following year when filed through a tax agent. Because that extension is standard, the provisional tax position matters more than the filing date does. We prepare the IR4 and the accompanying financial statements, reconcile GST for the year, and square it against the instalments already paid.
Tax Preparation in New ZealandGST is a flat 15% and returns run two-monthly, due the 28th of the month after the period — except the November period on 15 January and the March period on 7 May. Registration is compulsory at NZ$60,000 of turnover in any twelve months. Zero-rated exports and imported services are where most of the restatements we see begin.
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Get a quote for tech stack migration in New ZealandNew Zealand firms run on Xero, and every client expects books that are current rather than reconstructed at GST time. We reconcile continuously inside your existing practice file so the two-monthly GST return and the payroll reconciliation behind payday filing are ready before your firm's tax-agent extension to 31 March is even needed. Your firm keeps the IR4 filing and the Inland Revenue relationship — we are never client-facing.
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New Zealand is priced per engagement, so the price comes from the file rather than a tier — a written quote in NZD within 24 hours of us seeing it.
Built for the New Zealand pain points we hear most: Provisional tax timing · Payday filing cadence · GST registration management.
We prepare to NZ IFRS / NZ IFRS RDR, as set by the XRB. These are the bodies that set that framework and the authorities you file with — linked so you can verify the standard rather than take our word for it.
Listed for reference. Salt Accounting Group is not stating membership, registration or affiliation with any of these organisations. Where a filing must be lodged by a registered local agent, it is — your agent keeps the lodgement and the professional sign-off.
Tell us where you trade and what shape the books are in. You get scope, price and a start date in writing within one business day — no obligation.
