Country pack

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New Zealand

Ekwo is free, open source accounting software. Its New Zealand pack carries the chart of accounts (New Zealand reference chart of accounts, 163 accounts), 2 tax rates in NZD, the periodic return (Goods and services tax return, 11 boxes), and the pint-aunz e-invoicing profile. Last checked on 2026-09-21 against 19 texts of law and official sources.

Country code
NZ
Currency
NZD
Pack version
0.1.0
Last checked
2026-09-21
Set up Ekwo for New Zealand

What the pack carries

Charts of accountsWhat a company installs, and who each chart is published for.
  • default (default) — 163 accounts, for companies
TaxesHow many the pack carries, at which distinct rates, and which treatments it can express.
17 taxes at rates of 0, 15
domestic, exempt, export, foreign_services_received, not_subject
Periodic declarationThe form the ledger is read into, the cadences it is filed on, and how many boxes it has.
  • NZ-GST101A — 11 boxes, filed month or bimonth or half_year
When it is dueA rule of the country, not a date. A pack that cannot state its rule states nothing.
  • day 28 of the month after the period
The file it is deposited asThe brick of packages/formats that writes it, where one exists.
  • filed by hand on the administration’s portal
Electronic invoicingThe profile the country imposes, the day it starts, and the text that imposes it.
pint-aunz — no obligation in law

No New Zealand statute obliges a business to issue or to accept an electronic invoice from another business, so the obligation is `none` and mandatory_from is empty. New Zealand exchanges electronic invoices on the Peppol network under the PINT A-NZ Billing specification it shares with Australia (customization urn:peppol:pint:billing-1@aunz-1); the New Zealand Peppol Authority function sits with MBIE. Government agencies have been encouraged onto eInvoicing since 2019 by policy rather than by statute, and central government suppliers are increasingly asked to send them, which binds no supplier by itself. A New Zealand party is addressed on the network by its NZBN and taxed on its IRD/GST number; this pack leaves party_scheme and vat_scheme null because the ISO 6523 ICD code the New Zealand Business Number carries on the Peppol network could not be confirmed against an open official register in this session — see the note in README.md, and treat the value as unverified until a reviewer supplies it.

Where the tax balance landsThe accounts a filed declaration settles to, by role.
  • payable 2110
  • receivable 1155
Bank statementsThe formats this country’s banks send, and whether anything here reads them.
no format named
Payment filesThe formats the country’s banks accept for an outgoing payment.
no format named
Financial statementsThe schemes the chart reports on, and the taxonomy their keys are written against.
  • NZ-XRB-SFP — 31 lines
  • NZ-XRB-PL — 10 lines
Who has read itA pack is reviewed when a named professional has read it against the law, and never before.
community no named reviewer
19 sources cited
Last checked against the lawThe most recent day somebody opened one of the texts the pack was built from.
2026-09-21
Pack versionWhat this pack calls itself, the day it says its transcription is true, and the languages it publishes.
0.1.0 — published 2026-09-21
en

Free, and operated

Where the open core stops.

The line is operational, not functional. Everything that keeps working on its own is open core; what needs credentials, a certificate or a channel somebody keeps running is the hosted edition.

NZ-GST101Adeclaration

Free, for everComputed from the ledger, frozen box by box, filed by hand on the administration’s portal, and what it owes is carried to 2110. The deposit number and the administration’s own words come back into your own database.

OperatedTransmission: the credentials, the certificate and a channel somebody keeps running. The return stays yours.

pint-aunzeinvoicing

Free, for everAn invoice is written and validated as pint-aunz by a brick of packages/formats, and read back the same way.

OperatedSending and receiving over Peppol: a certified access point and a certificate.

What it was built from

19 sources — the law this pack was read against

Your books in New Zealand, on Ekwo.

Run it on your own project in one command, or leave us an address and we set it up with you.