Taxation (Use of Money Interest Rates) Amendment Regulations 2012

  • revoked
  • Taxation (Use of Money Interest Rates) Amendment Regulations 2012: revoked, on 8 May 2015, by regulation 7 of the Taxation (Use of Money Interest Rates) Amendment Regulations 2015 (LI 2015/63).

Reprint as at 8 May 2015

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Taxation (Use of Money Interest Rates) Amendment Regulations 2012

(SR 2012/59)

Taxation (Use of Money Interest Rates) Amendment Regulations 2012: revoked, on 8 May 2015, by regulation 7 of the Taxation (Use of Money Interest Rates) Amendment Regulations 2015 (LI 2015/63).

Jerry Mateparae, Governor-General

Order in Council

At Wellington this 26th day of March 2012

Present:
His Excellency the Governor-General in Council

Note

Changes authorised by subpart 2 of Part 2 of the Legislation Act 2012 have been made in this official reprint.

Note 4 at the end of this reprint provides a list of the amendments incorporated.

These regulations are administered by the Inland Revenue Department.

Pursuant to section 120H(b) of the Tax Administration Act 1994, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting on the advice and with the consent of the Executive Council, makes the following regulations.

Regulations

1 Title

These regulations are the Taxation (Use of Money Interest Rates) Amendment Regulations 2012.

2 Commencement

These regulations come into force on 8 May 2012.

3 Principal regulations

These regulations amend the Taxation (Use of Money Interest Rates) Regulations 1998 (the principal regulations).

4 Application

These regulations apply on and after 8 May 2012.

5 Regulation 2 amended (Taxpayer’s paying rate)

In regulation 2, replace “8.89%” with “8.40%”.

6 Regulation 3 amended (Commissioner’s paying rate)

In regulation 3, replace “2.18%” with “1.75%”.

7 Consequential revocation

The Taxation (Use of Money Interest Rates) Amendment Regulations 2010 (SR 2010/433) are revoked.

Rebecca Kitteridge,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Explanatory note

This note is not part of the regulations, but is intended to indicate their general effect.

These regulations, which come into force on 8 May 2012,—

  • reduce from 8.89% to 8.40% the taxpayer’s paying rate of interest on unpaid tax:

  • reduce from 2.18% to 1.75% the Commissioner’s paying rate on overpaid tax.

The rates fixed by these regulations have been determined in accordance with the Taxation (Use of Money Interest Rates Setting Process) Regulations 1997.

The Taxation (Use of Money Interest Rates) Amendment Regulations 2010 are consequentially revoked, as they are now spent.

Issued under the authority of the Legislation Act 2012.

Date of notification in Gazette: 29 March 2012.

Reprints notes
1 General

This is a reprint of the Taxation (Use of Money Interest Rates) Amendment Regulations 2012 that incorporates all the amendments to those regulations as at the date of the last amendment to them.

2 Legal status

Reprints are presumed to correctly state, as at the date of the reprint, the law enacted by the principal enactment and by any amendments to that enactment. Section 18 of the Legislation Act 2012 provides that this reprint, published in electronic form, has the status of an official version under section 17 of that Act. A printed version of the reprint produced directly from this official electronic version also has official status.

3 Editorial and format changes

Editorial and format changes to reprints are made using the powers under sections 24 to 26 of the Legislation Act 2012. See also http://www.pco.parliament.govt.nz/editorial-conventions/.

4 Amendments incorporated in this reprint

Taxation (Use of Money Interest Rates) Amendment Regulations 2015 (LI 2015/63): regulation 7