The final payment date for taxpayers with a 7 April terminal tax date to pay their 2018 income tax arrangement via TMNZ is 18 June 2019.
Legislation prevents TMNZ from helping beyond 75 days after a taxpayer’s terminal tax date.
Unpaid Flexitax® or Tax Finance balances will incur IRD interest and late payment penalties. IRD will charge interest and late payment penalties from the date the tax payment(s) were originally due.
2018 income tax: What are my options?
Below are three options for clients if paying their 2018 income tax arrangement with TMNZ by the deadline is going to be a push.
Interface Financial Group
The Interface Financial Group offers an invoice discounting service. It provides money straight away to clients by purchasing your unpaid invoices.
It pays up to 90 percent of the invoice amount. The only cost is a discount fee it earns on the invoice(s) it purchases from a business.
Your customers then pay the full invoice amount to The Interface Financial Group on the due date.
The service can be used at the sole discretion of business owners and is provided on a use-it-as-you-need-it basis.
Further information: Visit www.interfacefinancial.co.nz or phone 0800 438 434 to talk to them directly.
Spotcap
Spotcap provides unsecured business loans of up to $250,000 to small- and medium-sized businesses.
You can complete this process online. Credit decisions are made within 24 hours.
Spotcap gives immediate access to a credit line (from $10,000 to $250,000) upon approval. You pay a drawdown fee once you make a withdrawal and will incur interest of the amount you draw down.
You create a business loan every time you draw down. The loan is repayable monthly (one to 12 months).
Further information: Visit www.spotcap.co.nz or phone 0800 444 540 to talk to them directly.
Lock Finance
Lock Finance provides several lending facilities to help with cashflow depending on a business’ situation.
These include debtor finance, factoring, working capital finance and trade finance.
Lock Finance tends to focus on a business’ overall position to assess security rather than serviceability.
Further information: Visit www.lockfinance.co.nz or phone 0800 275 5625 to talk with them directly.
Don’t leave 2018 income tax arrangements to the last minute
This is just a snapshot of the plethora of services that exist in the marketplace.
We encourage clients to think about their options if they are not going to be able to meet the deadline to pay their 2018 income tax arrangements with TMNZ.
TMNZ has no affiliation with The Interface Financial Group, Spotcap and Lock Finance. We are not endorsing their services and do not receive any referral fees or commission from them. This information is provided only as a service to clients on options in the market. We encourage clients to do their own due diligence as we have done.