New Zealand
New Zealand local functionality in Business Central: GST and withholding tax, Peppol PINT A-NZ e-invoicing, banking and EFT, statutory finance reports, and NZ address and IRD number handling. It answers setup and usage questions for NZ-specific requirements.
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Overview
This section covers the features Business Central adds for companies in New Zealand. It starts with an overview page listing the main areas: Withholding Tax, Goods and Services Tax, E-Invoicing with Peppol PINT A-NZ, Electronic Funds Transfer and GST settlement reporting.
A separate page explains how to set up and use the E-Documents framework with the Peppol PINT A-NZ format, including service integration and the sales and purchasing workflows. The subtopics hold the detailed how-to pages: Tax (8 pages), Banking & payments (5), Core finance (3) and General (4).
Start with the overview page to find your area. For tax setup go to Tax. For electronic invoicing use the e-invoicing page. Bank, EFT and reconciliation tasks are under Banking & payments.
Key points
- Electronic invoicing uses the E-Documents framework with the Peppol PINT A-NZ format for sales and purchasing workflows.
- Tax covers GST posting setup, GST on prepayments, GST settlement reports and VAT exchange rate adjustment.
- Withholding tax (WHT) setup, calculation and settlement are documented under Tax.
- Banking & payments covers bank cash flow comparison, check installments, vendor EFT, and bank reconciliation and deposit slip reports.
- Core finance covers calculating distribution amounts, and printing statutory balance sheet and income statement reports.
- General covers address handling with DPID and postal codes, and cost plus percentage sales pricing.
- General also covers IRD numbers and adjustment notes for GST.
Subtopics
- Tax (8 pages)
- Banking & payments (5 pages)
- Core finance (3 pages)
- General (4 pages)
More Learn pages
- Electronic invoicing in New Zealand: Learn how to work with the New Zealand localization of the E-Document framework.
- New Zealand local functionality: These articles describe the local functionality in the New Zealand version of Business Central.
Business Central pages and reports
The pages, reports and queries this hub’s Learn pages name (ms.search.form, API reference), joined to the code by exact object id (data/index/docs-objects.json); a page shows the table it runs on.
Learn also names 15 objects with no object page: page/11600, page/11615, page/28040, page/28041, page/28042, page/28043, page/28044, page/28090, page/28091, page/28092, page/28093, page/28164, page/28165, page/28166, page/28167.
Source: Microsoft Learn (CC BY 4.0). Descriptions are Learn’s own.
What Learn documents here 8 of 22 Learn pages
- learnAddresses in New Zealand2025-05-05
- learnAdjust Settlement Exchange Rates for VAT Entries (NZ)2025-05-05
- learnCalculate and post withholding tax settlements (NZ)2025-05-05
- learnCalculate goods and services tax on prepayments (NZ)2025-05-05
- learnCalculating distribution amounts [NZ]2025-05-05
- learnCompare Bank Cash Flow [NZ]2025-05-05
- learnCreate check installments [NZ]2025-05-05
- learnDetermine Sales Price by Cost Plus Percentage (NZ)2025-05-05
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- learnElectronic Funds Transfer (EFT) [NZ]2025-05-05
- learnElectronic invoicing in New Zealand2025-05-06
- learnEnter Inland revenue department numbers2025-05-05
- learnInland Revenue Department Numbers and Adjustment Notes2025-05-07
- learnNew Zealand local functionality2025-07-15
- learnPrint Balance Sheet Reports [NZ]2025-05-06
- learnPrint bank account reconciliation reports [NZ]2025-05-06
- learnPrint deposit slip reports [NZ]2025-05-06
- learnPrint Goods and Service Tax Settlement Reports (NZ)2025-05-06
- learnPrint Income Statements [NZ]2025-05-06
- learnSet Up Goods and Service Tax Posting [NZ]2025-05-06
- learnSet up vendors without IRD for calculating withholding tax (NZ)2025-05-06
- learnSet up withholding tax [NZ]2025-05-07
- learnWithholding Tax in the New Zealand version2025-05-07