Country pack
communityNew 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
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 lawNo 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
- payable
- 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 linesNZ-XRB-PL— 10 lines
- Who has read itA pack is reviewed when a named professional has read it against the law, and never before.
communityno named reviewer19 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 2026-09-21en
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-GST101AdeclarationFree, 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-aunzeinvoicingFree, 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
- Goods and Services Tax Act 1985 (No 141), as compiled
Parliamentary Counsel Office — New Zealand Legislation · law · read 2026-09-21
- Income Tax Act 2007 (No 97) — the income year and its standard balance date
Parliamentary Counsel Office — New Zealand Legislation · law · read 2026-09-21
- Tax Administration Act 1994 (No 166)
Parliamentary Counsel Office — New Zealand Legislation · law · read 2026-09-21
- Companies Act 1993 (No 105), Part 11 — financial statements and annual reports
Parliamentary Counsel Office — New Zealand Legislation · law · read 2026-09-21
- Financial Reporting Act 2013 (No 101) — reporting entities and the External Reporting Board
Parliamentary Counsel Office — New Zealand Legislation · law · read 2026-09-21
- XRB A1 Application of the Accounting Standards Framework (For-profit Entities Update)
External Reporting Board (XRB) · standard · read 2026-09-21
- IR375 — GST guide: Working with GST (March 2026)
Inland Revenue Te Tari Taake · guidance · read 2026-09-21
- Taxable supply information for GST
Inland Revenue Te Tari Taake · guidance · read 2026-09-21
- Changing your GST filing frequency
Inland Revenue Te Tari Taake · guidance · read 2026-09-21
- myIR — file and manage GST
Inland Revenue Te Tari Taake · portal · read 2026-09-21
- GST for overseas businesses
Inland Revenue Te Tari Taake · guidance · read 2026-09-21
- Exempt supplies
Inland Revenue Te Tari Taake · guidance · read 2026-09-21
- Zero-rated supplies
Inland Revenue Te Tari Taake · guidance · read 2026-09-21
- Filing a GST return
Inland Revenue Te Tari Taake · guidance · read 2026-09-21
- XRB A1 Application of the Accounting Standards Framework (For-profit Entities Update), effective 1 January 2026
External Reporting Board (XRB) · standard · read 2026-09-21
- PINT A-NZ Billing BIS — Peppol International specification for Australia and New Zealand
OpenPeppol, with the ATO and the New Zealand Peppol Authority · standard · read 2026-09-21
- Electronic Address Scheme (EAS) code list
OpenPEPPOL · standard · read 2026-09-21
- UNCL5305 — duty or tax or fee category code
OpenPEPPOL — the list itself is published by UN/CEFACT · standard · read 2026-09-21
- New Zealand Business Number (NZBN) register
Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) · portal · read 2026-09-21
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.