How does Tax Pooling work?

Firstly you or your tax practitioner need to register you with TPS. Our online system will send you or your practitioner login details that will enable your account with TPS.

As each of your tax payments fall due you pay them into a bank account owned and operated by Public Trust. Public Trust will then deposit the monies into the TPS' tax pooling account at the IRD.

When we have confirmed that each of your payments is in the TPS tax pooling account the deposits will appear in a statement of your holdings that you can view in our online system.

When you or your tax practitioner complete your tax return and you know whether you have underpaid or overpaid your income tax you can login and complete a buy or sell tax request depending on what you need.

You can also settle or sell reassessments. When you know the result of a reassessment you can either sell a historical balance that was reassessed in your favour or you can buy tax to cover a reassessment that was not in your favour.

There are rules and timeframes around buying and selling tax. Contact our team if you have any questions.