NZ Goods and services tax

Invoicing in New Zealand

In New Zealand the general indirect tax is GST, charged at a standard rate of ⁨15%⁩, with invoices issued in ⁨NZD⁩. DocsOrigin applies that rate, the local document names and the local numbering conventions from the moment you set the business country to New Zealand.

Invoicing in New Zealand is free forever with DocsOrigin: every document type, every export, no card and no trial.

Создать первый счёт A worked example in New Zealand

Tax in New Zealand

GST 15%

Reduced and zero rates 0%

How reliable is this figure

Graded high: this rate has been checked against a tax-authority or official source. It is still your responsibility to confirm it before you rely on it.

Whatever the grade, your own setting always wins — a rate you enter overrides the registry everywhere, including on documents already dated in the past.

Document types recognised in New Zealand

These are the documents DocsOrigin will offer a business registered in New Zealand, under the names used there. A type that has no meaning locally is not offered at all.

Коммерческое предложение

Оценка цены. Не налоговый документ и не записывается в вашу книгу до принятия.

Счёт-фактура pro forma

Требование оплаты. Не даёт клиенту право на вычет налога.

Счёт-фактура

Налоговый документ. Блокируется после выдачи.

Счёт-квитанция

Счёт и оплата в одном документе, для случаев, когда вы получаете платёж на месте.

Квитанция

Подтверждает получение денег против счёта.

Кредит-нота

Единственный законный способ отменить или уменьшить уже выданный документ.

Накладная

Товар передан без взимания платы.

Tax identifier

On a document issued in New Zealand the identifier is labelled IRD number. It is printed in the header of every tax document, isolated left-to-right so it reads correctly in any interface language.

Expected format ^\d{8,9}$

DocsOrigin checks this identifier's structure as you type — a wrong number on an issued document cannot be corrected by editing it.

Numbering

Documents in New Zealand are expected to run in an unbroken sequence. DocsOrigin allocates the number at the moment of issue — never earlier — so a draft that is abandoned does not burn a number and leave a gap you have to explain.

Prefix, padding and yearly reset are configurable per document type, and the series is kept separately for each type.

How New Zealand writes dates and money

Set the country and these stop being settings you have to think about. The examples below are rendered by the same formatter the documents use.

Date: 21/09/2026
Amount: $12,345.67
Currency: NZD
Minor units: 2

⁨NZD⁩ is written with ⁨2⁩ decimal places, and every amount is stored as a whole number of minor units. ⛔ Money never touches floating point.

A worked example in New Zealand

Three lines, priced identically everywhere, run through the real tax engine with the New Zealand registry entry applied. This is what the document looks like there.

Коммерческое предложение Счёт-фактура pro forma Счёт-фактура Счёт-квитанция Квитанция Кредит-нота

Northwind Studio

IRD number 000000000 · New Zealand

Счёт-фактура

№ 2026-0042

21/09/2026

Счёт-фактура выставлен Riverbank Coffee

Описание	Кол-во	Цена за единицу	Итого
Работы по дизайну	12	$45.00	$540.00
Фирменное руководство	1	$380.00	$380.00
Поддержка по контракту	3	$60.00	$180.00

Итого без налога $1,100.00

GST 15% $165.00

Итого $1,265.00

Invoicing in New Zealand — questions

What tax rate do I charge in New Zealand?

The standard GST rate recorded for New Zealand is ⁨15%⁩. Reduced rates may apply to particular supplies, and your own setting always overrides ours.

Which document do I issue to a customer in New Zealand?

The document set recognised in New Zealand is listed above, under the names used locally. For a paid sale the usual document is Счёт-фактура, and a mistake on an issued document is corrected with a credit note rather than an edit.

Does DocsOrigin cost anything in New Zealand?

No. DocsOrigin is free forever for businesses in New Zealand as everywhere else: no subscription, no card, no trial, no per-document fee and no export fee. Optional professional services are the only thing that is ever charged for, and they are quoted per project.

What if the rate for New Zealand is wrong or changes?

Set your own rate in the business settings and it overrides the registry immediately, for new documents and for any date. Rates are applied by document date, so an old document keeps the rate that applied when it was issued.

Also billing in ⁨NZD⁩

The currency is shared, but the tax, the document names and the numbering rules are not. Each of these has its own entry.

Issue your first New Zealand document

Choose New Zealand once. The tax, the document names, the numbering, the date order and the currency format are configured together, and it costs nothing.

Free forever for businesses Создать первый счёт

This page describes what DocsOrigin does with the registry entry for New Zealand. It is not tax advice, and it is not a statement of New Zealand law. Confirm your obligations with your accountant or the tax authority. Registry data as of ⁨2026-08⁩.