Latest from Inland Revenue Department

Company director caught over $215k 'Phoenix type' PAYE fraud scheme

Frederick Mario Mau Epiha withheld more than $215,000 in PAYE tax payments.

Boat burglar and serial fraudster's $466k crime spree over four years

Bradley Croft, 42, amassed more than 50 charges over four years.

Company liquidations up 26% despite improving credit trends

Tax debt collection has intensified following a more lenient approach taken during Covid.

Ikea eligible for multimillion-dollar tax break under Govt's Investment Boost scheme

Ikea’s Sylvia Park store is due to open its doors on December 4, 2025.

How a beneficiary swindled $62k using IRD's ‘high-trust’ business loan scheme

The Wellingtonian managed to get $62,600 in loans from Inland Revenue.

Liquidator seeks buyer for failed Auckland food business, with 35 jobs on the line

Gourmet pies, cakes and savouries made by companies hit by a combination of events.

Mary Holm: $3000 surprise – How to get back what you are owed

OPINION: Victims must keep bank and contact details current to receive repayments.

Popular restaurant set to reopen after former owner's $1.4m collapse

It closed in May but its new owner is planning a 'grand comeback'.

Fraudster used false identities to try to steal $220,000

Bank account details were doctored in Caitlin Briar Ashby's bid to steal.

Kiwi living in Australia for decades arrested at NZ border over unpaid $58k student debt

Her lawyer said such a move was 'very, very rare'.

'Complete lack of governance': Engineering firm goes bust owing $11m

Liquidators say the director's 'alleged misappropriation' caused collapse.

Dragonboat Restaurant goes into liquidation owing $1.4m

Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown used the location for a March promotional video.

Wage subsidy cheat named fake employees to steal nearly $1m

'Smorgasbord of dishonesty': Man escalates from short-changing mum to conning Covid fund.

'A lot of collateral damage': Business tax debt nears $1.4b

Businesses owe over $1.4b in unpaid GST and PAYE for the 2025 tax year.

IRD debt: Regional media firm calls in administrators; more than 20 jobs up in air

'It’s a s*** sandwich and there’s no butter,' says one source but there is, in fact, hope.

Man tried to bribe court registrar with $2 million in Bitcoin in cryptocurrency case

Cryptopia was allegedly hacked in 2019, and liquidators are still trying to wind it up.