New Zealand Case Management - Exchange of Information – Inland Revenue, New Zealand (NZIR) to Child Support - Annually required tasks 277-08170030

The following tasks are performed on an annual basis:

• Bulk income requests
• Bulk annual assessments

A bulk income request is received from Inland Revenue, New Zealand (NZIR) annually in November. The request is for Child Support to provide NZIR with updated income information for payer’s in Australia so that this updated information can be returned to NZIR to update assessments and forward back to Child Support.

When the request is received via the spreadsheet from NZIR, Child Support will liaise in the first instance with CS ATO and DVA Relationships (CSADR) team who will liaise with the Australian Taxation Office (ATO). The ATO provide most recent taxable income information for the customer record on the spreadsheet.

NZIR send the spreadsheet via email in April The spreadsheet is titled ‘BulkAcertNZAU yyyymmdd. The spreadsheet contains updated assessment information. Before the bulk annual assessments are processed, the spreadsheet is:

• checked
• saved, and
• reformatted