Registration
The Companies Office starting-company sequence treats reserving a company name and incorporating the company as separate steps.
The official starting-company page lists company-name reservation before company incorporation and links each as a separate task.
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A reserved name is not an incorporated company, and this snapshot does not promise that a proposed name or application will be accepted.
Starting a New Zealand company includes company-name, director, share, address, consent and tax-registration tasks.
The Companies Office starting-company page links the required incorporation and maintenance topics, including directors, shareholders, addresses, consents and tax registration.
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The page does not determine the appropriate legal form or provide an individualized incorporation checklist.
Companies Office company registration and Inland Revenue tax accounts are connected start-up tasks but remain different authority functions.
Companies Office identifies incorporation and tax registration as distinct tasks; Inland Revenue separately covers IRD numbers, GST, employer registration and business tax.
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Completing a Companies Office task does not prove that every Inland Revenue account or tax obligation is complete.
Tax
Inland Revenue business setup covers obtaining an IRD number, GST registration and other tax start-up tasks, while ongoing business tax includes records, returns and payments.
The business and organisations page separates setup, income tax, running a business, GST and employer topics.
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This overview does not determine which accounts, returns or payment dates apply to a particular reader.
Inland Revenue currently requires GST registration when taxable-activity turnover was or is expected to be at least NZ$60,000 in a 12-month period, or when GST is added to prices.
The GST registration page states the NZ$60,000 past-or-expected turnover tests and the separate charging-GST trigger.
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Starting an entity alone does not require GST registration; thresholds, special registrations and exceptions must be freshly checked.
Once registered for GST, an entity must charge GST, file GST returns, pay GST owed and keep GST records.
Inland Revenue lists the four ongoing obligations on the GST registration page.
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This summary does not choose an accounting basis, filing frequency or treatment for any transaction.
Inland Revenue says an employer must register as soon as it starts employing staff.
The employer-registration page states the timing and lists the IRD number, contact, bank, industry and employment details needed.
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This snapshot does not decide worker status or replace employment-law, payroll, KiwiSaver or accident-compensation checks.
Lifecycle
After employer registration, Inland Revenue identifies wage records, PAYE deductions, employer returns and payment of deductions as ongoing tasks.
The official page describes the information Inland Revenue sends after registration and the resulting record, deduction, filing and payment topics.
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The summary does not calculate deductions, due dates, employee eligibility or payroll treatment.
Charities Services registration requires preparation of charitable purpose, rules and officer information; registered charities also have separate annual-return and financial-reporting obligations.
Charities Services lists the application-preparation subjects and annual reporting resources; Companies Office states that Charities Services registrants file annual returns with financial statements or performance reports.
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Registration is not guaranteed, processing time is not promised, and this snapshot does not select a reporting tier or prepare a return.
Charity
Trustees of a qualifying charitable trust may apply to incorporate as a charitable trust board, creating a body corporate able to hold property and act in its own legal identity.
The Companies Office explains the incorporation route and the legal capacity of an incorporated charitable trust board.
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Incorporation as a trust board is not the same as Charities Services registration or a tax-relief determination.
A charitable trust board application uses the Companies Office online route with required documents, and registered boards must keep addresses, names, deeds and rules current.
The Charitable Trusts Register home page separates incorporation from later register-maintenance tasks.
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The application route does not establish eligibility, supply legal drafting or complete separate charity and tax processes.
The Charitable Trusts Register and Charities Services operate independently, and information held by each must be maintained separately.
The official guide expressly separates Companies Office trust-board registration from Charities Services and its register.
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Legal-form registration does not automatically create registered-charity status, and not every charitable organisation uses a trust-board structure.