Payroll updates for NZ new tax year

April is fast approaching, and so is New Zealand New Tax Year! This time of year is especially important for accountants and bookkeepers, but let’s be honest – nobody loves extra administration tasks.

To make things easy for you, the team at Employment Hero has compiled a list of payroll related changes that should be useful for preparing your clients for the New Tax Year. We’re also hard at work to make Tax Year End processing as simple as possible in the lead up to 2022 / 2023.

Rate updates & legislation changes for NZ Tax Year 2022/23

Tax table updates

Some changes have been made for secondary tax codes for the new financial year:

Student loan threshold increase

The student loan repayment threshold for the new financial year will increase from $20,280 to $21,268 annually (an increase to $409 weekly).

With Employment Hero Payroll, any pay runs with a date paid of 1/4/2022 or later will use the new FY2022/2023 student loan repayment threshold automatically.

Employment Hero Payroll is making NZ New Tax Year a piece of cake

Employment Hero Payroll streamlines tax and payroll processing for your clients by:

• Calculating KiwiSaver, student loans, PAYE and ACC rates for you
• Streamlining expense and employee management by allowing clients and their employees to store receipts, documents and certifications within a single, centralised platform
• Automatically reporting data to the IRD after each pay run at no extra cost
• Offering comprehensive reporting capabilities to easily review information for tax time, business function reporting and beyond

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For detailed information on processing for tax year end with Employment Hero Payroll, take a look at our support article here.‍

Note: This blog has been updated on 8th March 2022 from last year’s blog, which was published on 1st March 2021.

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