Q: I have had a query from staff on the taxes on different allowances. If an employee has a stay away allowance of $80.00 for example This is to cover
Paytech Category: Tax calculations & IRD reporting
Treatment of tax when employee first employed
Q: When an employee first commences employment and may have started part way through a pay period but wasn’t included in that pay period but was instead paid those hours
Post tax deduction
Q: Our Aussie company wants to introduce a Giving program, but done as pre-tax deduction Do you know if IRD has any rules / restrictions around what we can do for
Tax code query
Q: Employee commenced employment with M as tax code Letter from IRD 07.08.22 advising to change to tax code ST Employee then gave an IR330 for tax code change to
Ordinary Pay
Q: I just want to double check if back pays is considered as ordinary pay? Back Pays are normally processed Annually and when there is a Promotion which can happen
Referral Fee
Q: My manager is asking me to pay a sum of money to an employee as a Referral fee (or finder’s fee) and to process it as non-taxable. From what
Payroll while working overseas
Q: I have a client who is going to work in Rarotonga for 6 months, but will continue to receive wages from there business in New Zealand while they are
Taxing Student loan on one off bonus
Q: Do we need to tax a one off bonus with student loan rate if employee has tax code of ‘M SL’ A: Short answer Yes, as it is part
Saving Suspension
Q: When Employee want to end kiwisaver saving suspension early and would like to join kiwisaver does employee need to provide any forms to IRD regarding this? A: Just need
3 Questions
Question 1 Q: Employees are entering their own tax numbers and codes into an Employee self service system without completing an IR330 tax form -is this form still legally required
Employee owing PAYE for 2022 financial year
Q: We’ve received an inquiry from an employee who said that they have been advised by IRD that their PAYE Tax was incorrectly calculated by their employer for the 2022
Backpay associated with recent Court Decision to include Bonuses in Average Leave rate calcs
Q: We have two pay components in dispute as to whether they should be included in AWE and OWE. These components are: Overtime Payment for Worked Public Holidays Can you
PAYE for new starter
Q: I have a query around PAYE for a new starter when they have only worked half of the pay period. We pay on a fortnightly pay cycle, but a
Taxing lump sum with cents
Q: When taxing a lump sum amount with cents using the flat rates eg. $2500.80, do we include the 80 cents in the calculation? The IRD PAYE tables states “in
Payment – Untaxed or taxed
Q: We are also wanting to pay an annual phone allowance as we’re aware that some staff have had to use their personal phones for work use from time to
Car allowance & gross earnings
Q: Could you please help clarify if taxable car allowances should be included in the calculation of gross wages for AWE? I understand if this is a taxable non-reimbursing allowance
Final pay for employee who has been on long term ACC
Q: We have an employee who has been on long term ACC but his employment may be terminated.He has an annual leave entitlement of 23 days with his next entitlement
Employee has requested a lower tax rate
Q: We have an employee who has been made redundant and his final pay is due in the beginning of the 2022-2023 financial year (it will be sometime in April).
Commission Payment owed after Termination
Q: I have 3 employees that have Commission owed to them for the March 2021 period, however they terminated last pay period and have had their final payments made. How
ACC first week, leave that can be used
Q: When an employee wants to top up their ACC payments to 100% if quotes that sick leave is to be used. We allow employees if they wish to top