This information release includes Cabinet papers, policy reports and advice related to the COVID-19 Response (Taxation and Social Assistance Urgent Measures) Act 2020, enacted on 25 March 2020. These were published on the Government’s COVID-19 website on 8 May 2020.
The Act covered these topics:
- Income tax
- Depreciation on non-residential buildings
- Increase in the provisional tax threshold
- Increase in the low-value asset write-off threshold
- Research and development tax credits – broader access to refunds
- Tax administration
- Use of money interest remission
- Information sharing
- Social assistance
- Removal of hours test from the in-work tax credit
- Winter energy payment
- Working for Families tax credits entitlement for emergency benefit recipients
- GST on COVID-19 related social assistance payments
| Documents in this information release |
CAB-20-SUB-0108: COVID-19: Overview of the Government’s response and economic response package (16 March 2020)
- CAB-20-SUB-0108 – Cabinet paper: COVID-19: Overview of the Government’s response and Economic Response Package (16 March 2020)
- CAB-20-SUB-0108 – Cabinet paper attachment: Annex Three: Alternate options to extend the Winter Energy Payment and updated financial recommendations (16 March 2020)
- CAB-20-MIN-0108 – Minute: COVID-19: Overview of the Government’s response: Economic Package (16 March 2020)
CAB-20-SUB-0103: COVID: Tax measures (16 March 2020)
- IR2020/123 – Tax policy report: COVID-19: Update to Inland Revenue's response and next steps (5 March 2020)
- IR2020/134 – Tax policy report: COVID-19: Inland Revenue's tax relief package in response to the 2016 Gastroenteritis outbreak in Havelock North - a comparison (6 March 2020)
- IR2020/139 T2020/616 – Tax policy report: Draft Cabinet paper: COVID-19: Tax measures to support affected businesses (11 March 2020)
- IR2020/149 T2020/634 – Tax policy report: Cabinet paper: COVID-19: Tax measures (12 March 2020)
- CAB-20-SUB-0103 – Cabinet paper: COVID-19: Tax measures (16 March 2021)
- CAB-20-MIN-0103 – Minute: COVID-19: Tax measures (16 March 2021)
CAB-20-SUB-0118: Order in Council: Goods and Services Tax (Grants and Subsidies) Amendment Order 2020 (23 March 2020)
- CAB-20-SUB-0118 – Cabinet paper: Order in Council: Goods and Services Tax (Grants and Subsidies) Amendment Order 2020, and amended application dates (23 March 2020)
- CAB-20-MIN-0118 – Minute: Goods and Services Tax (Grants and Subsidies) Amendment Order 2020 (23 March 2020)
CAB-20-SUB-0127: COVID-19 recovery package: increases to main benefits and the Winter Energy Payment (23 March 2020)
- REP/20/3/267 – MSD aide-mémoire: COVID-19 recovery package: increases to main benefits and the Winter Energy Payment (20 March 2020)
- CAB-20-SUB-0127 – Cabinet paper: COVID-19 recovery package: increases to main benefits and the Winter Energy Payment (23 March 2020)
- CAB-20-MIN-0127 – Minute: COVID-19 recovery package: increases to main benefits and the Winter Energy Payment (23 March 2020)
CAB-20-SUB-0128: R&D Tax Incentive: Reducing the impact of COVID-19 on business R&D (23 March 2020)
- 2778 19-20 – MBIE briefing: R&D Tax Incentive - Reducing the impact of COVID-19 on business R&D (19 March 2020)
- CAB-20-SUB-0128 – Cabinet paper: Reducing the impact of Covid-19 on business R&D (23 March 2020)
- CAB-20-MIN-0128 – Minute: R&D Tax Incentive: Reducing the impact of COVID-19 on business R&D (23 March 2020)
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| Additional information |
These documents were published on the Government's COVID-19 website (About our COVID-19 response > Proactive releases > Economy and Income support measures) on 8 May 2020.
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