Income tax Dates
You need to submit your donation receipts to claim your donation tax credit. The easiest way to do this is in myIR.
If you do not have myIR, you can submit your receipts using the Tax credit claim form – IR526. You can find this form by clicking ‘Other ways to do this’ below.
Before you begin
Check that you’re registered for donation tax credits. If ‘Donation tax credit’ is not an option on your myIR home page, you can register by clicking ‘I want to...’ and then ‘Register for donation tax credit’.
You’ll need:
- the name of the approved organisation you donated to
- their IRD number and charity number, if you have them
- the type of donation
- the date of the receipt (not the date you are submitting the receipt)
- the amount of the donation.
You’ll also need to check that the organisation is on our approved list of donee organisations and that your receipts meet all of the requirements.
Select your donation tax credit account
Select 'Enter donation tax credit receipts'
Select 'Add a receipt'
Fill in the details
If you want to share the receipt with a spouse or partner, you can tell us at this stage.
Sharing and transferring your donation tax credit
If you have more than 1 receipt to submit, select 'Add a receipt' again
Attach your receipt
Select ‘Add receipt attachment’ and then ‘Choose file’ to find your file or files to upload.
Your receipt should be provided as a PDF. If you cannot upload it as a PDF, you can upload a photo or scan of a paper receipt, or other clear image.
You can add a description to each file to help identify the receipts you have attached.
Submit the receipt to us
Confirm your details are correct then select ‘Submit’.
If you want to transfer your credit to other debt, you can tell us at this stage.
Log in to myIR
If you do not use myIR you must submit all your receipts after the tax year ends on 31 March.
You need to complete a ‘Tax credit claim form – IR526'.
Post the IR526 and your receipts to:
Inland Revenue
PO Box 39090
Wellington Mail Centre
Lower Hutt
5045
What happens next
We will contact you if we need any more information.
Our current processing times are available on our website. It may take longer to process your credit if we need more information from you, if your income tax return is being processed or if your claim is chosen for further review.