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Planned system outage | Our online services (including myIR and submitting information using software providers) will be unavailable from 6pm Friday 14 to approximately 4pm Sunday 16 March while we complete some system upgrades. The outage will not affect any saved drafts or web requests in myIR, our website, general tools and calculators. We apologise for any inconvenience this causes.</

ACC earners’ levies now set for 2026, 2027 and 2028 years | ACC earners’ levies have been set for the 2025-26, 2026-27 and 2027-28 tax years. Find out more: ACC earners levy rates

Hamilton (Home Straight) public counter is temporarily closed | Our Hamilton Public Counter will be closed from Monday 3 March 2025 and re-opens on Monday 17 March 2025. For anything urgent, you can call our contact centre.

Payday filing is one of the biggest changes we’ve put in place to make sure employees are paying and getting the right amount of tax and entitlements.

We get information from employers around the same time they pay their employees, so employees can check the information we get is correct in near real-time. It also means we can check taxes, obligations and entitlements far quicker than we ever have before.

If you're paying too much tax or not getting enough Working for Families we can suggest a change or adjust this earlier so the money is with you during the year when it's needed. If you're not paying enough tax we can suggest a change or adjust this so there's less chance of a big end-of-year bill.

Last updated: 07 Apr 2021
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