Taxation (Use of Money Interest Rates Setting Process) Amendment Regulations (No 2) 2009
2009/183
Taxation (Use of Money Interest Rates Setting Process) Amendment Regulations (No 2) 2009
Rt Hon Dame Sian Elias, Administrator of the Government
Order in Council
At Wellington this 22nd day of June 2009
Present:
Her Excellency the Administrator of the Government in Council
Pursuant to section 120H(a) of the Tax Administration Act 1994, Her Excellency the Administrator of the Government, acting on the advice and with the consent of the Executive Council, makes the following regulations.
Contents
Regulations
1 Title
These regulations are the Taxation (Use of Money Interest Rates Setting Process) Amendment Regulations (No 2) 2009.
2 Commencement
These regulations come into force immediately after they are made.
3 Principal regulations amended
These regulations amend the Taxation (Use of Money Interest Rates Setting Process) Regulations 1997.
4 New regulation 2 substituted
Regulation 2 is revoked and the following regulation substituted:
“2 Taxpayer's paying rate
For the purposes of section 120E(1)(a) of the Tax Administration Act 1994, the taxpayer's paying rate must be set at the Reserve Bank of New Zealand floating first mortgage new customer housing rate series plus 250 basis points.”
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 immediately, change the setting process for the taxpayer's paying rate, which is the rate payable on unpaid tax.
The setting process as prescribed in February 2009 is that the rate must be set at the 90-day bank bill rate plus 450 basis points.
The new setting process is that the rate must be set at the floating first mortgage new customer housing rate series plus 250 basis points.
Section 120H of the Tax Administration Act 1994 provides that Orders in Council may be made to—
specify the criteria and other requirements by and against which interest rates will be set or reset and notified for the purposes of Part 7 of that Act. These regulations are made under that provision:
set the Commissioner's paying rate and taxpayer's paying rate. The actual rates are specified in the Taxation (Use of Money Interest Rates) Regulations 1998.
Date of notification in Gazette: 25 June 2009.
These regulations are administered by the Inland Revenue Department.