Aussie Hosts - Do you lodge a TPAR (Taxable Payments Annual Report)?

In NZ, as a main contractor you’re often required to:

• Withhold tax from subcontractors (based on their IR330C rate, otherwise default rates apply)
• File the income / tax withheld through payday filing to IRD
• Treat it as an interim tax collection, not final tax for the contractor

One important thing we’ve seen in practice (and IRD does actively review this):

If contractors are effectively operating like employees (fixed hours, ongoing role, no real independence, working primarily for one business), IRD can reclassify the relationship and require the main contractor to move them onto PAYE as employees. In construction this gets looked at quite closely where there is a “main contractor + dependent sub-trade” setup.

So while NZ doesn’t have a direct TPAR equivalent, the compliance intent is similar — ensuring payments to contractors are transparent and correctly taxed, and that disguised employment is not being used.

From a product perspective, anything that helps track contractor payments + tax treatment + annual summaries would be genuinely useful, especially for multi-property operators managing cleaners and trades across multiple sites.

​@isaac thank you for the context - this is much appreciated for when NZ comes around in the hopefully not too distant future!

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Hi Ethan

yes I will be using it this FY.

im likely to use a cleaning contractor this year as I move way from employees for this 

cheers

andrew 

Further update - apparently my QuickBooks does it too but I still have to upload it to the ato myself - so basically it just creates the report - no integration 

hope this is useful mate

andrew 

Awesome, thank you for the info ​@andrew_bca 

If this was a feature to pay people directly from Hospitable I would support this.