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Tax Administration Amendment Act 2015 Public Act 2015 No 83 Date of assent 22 September 2015 Commencement see section 2 Contents Title Commencement Principal Act Section 3 amended (Interpretation) New heading and section 24BA inserted (Offshore persons’ bank accounts and tax file numbers) Offshore persons’ bank accounts and tax file numbers 24BA Offshore persons’ bank accounts and tax file numbers Section 81 amended (Officers to maintain secrecy) The Parliament of New Zealand enacts as follows: 1 2 3 4 (1) (2) Title This Act is the Tax Administration Amendment Act 2015.
Commencement This Act comes into force on 1 October 2015.

Principal Act This Act amends the Tax Administration Act 1994 (the principal Act).

Section 3 amended (Interpretation) This section amends section 3(1).
Insert, in its appropriate alphabetical order: Page 1 1 1 1 2 2 3 1 s 5 Tax Administration Amendment Act 2015 2015 No 83 bank account means, for a person, the identifying number of an account— (a) (b) that the person holds with a registered bank, or with a licensed NBDT as defined in section 4 of the Non-bank Deposit Takers Act 2013; and for which the relevant reporting entity, under the Anti-Money Launder- ing and Countering Financing of Terrorism Act 2009 (the Act), has ob- tained identity information and completed verification of identity in ac- cordance with the Act, if customer due diligence is required under that Act for the person (3) Insert, in their appropriate alphabetical order: offshore person means,— (a) for an individual,— (i) (ii) a New Zealand citizen who is outside New Zealand and has not been in New Zealand within the last 3 years: a person who holds a residence class visa granted under the Immi- gration Act 2009, and who is outside New Zealand and has not been in New Zealand within the last 12 months: (iii) a person who is not a New Zealand citizen and who does not hold a residence class visa granted under the Immigration Act 2009: (b) for a body corporate or an unincorporated body of persons, including a trust or a unit trust, a person who would be an overseas person under section 7(2)(b) to (f) of the Overseas Investment Act 2005, treating ref- erences to an overseas person or persons in that section as including a person or persons described in paragraph (a) of this definition tax file number means an identification number that the Commissioner allo- cates to a person 5 New heading and section 24BA inserted (Offshore persons’ bank accounts and tax file numbers) After section 24 insert: Offshore persons’ bank accounts and tax file numbers 24BA Offshore persons’ bank accounts and tax file numbers (1) The Commissioner must not allocate a tax file number in response to an off- shore person’s request unless the Commissioner first receives a current bank account number for the offshore person.
(2) A person must give their current bank account number to the Commissioner immediately if–– the person has a tax file number; and the person becomes, after 1 October 2015, an offshore person under paragraph (b) of the definition of offshore person; and (a) (b) 2 2015 No 83 Tax Administration Amendment Act 2015 s 6 (c) the person has not yet provided their current bank account number to the Commissioner.
6 Section 81 amended (Officers to maintain secrecy) After section 81(4)(u), insert: (v) communicating to the chief executive, or an authorised employee, of Land Information New Zealand under section 156J of the Land Transfer Act 1952 any information specified in subsection (1) of that section for the purpose set out in that subsection.
9 September 2015 10 September 2015 22 September 2015 Legislative history Divided from Taxation (Land Information and Offshore Persons Information) Bill (Bill 34–2) as Bill 34–3B Third reading Royal assent This Act is administered by the Inland Revenue Department.

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