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Inland Revenue (IRD; Former Known Name: ''Inland Revenue Department'') (Māori: ''Te Tari Taake'') is the public service department of New Zealand charged with advising the government on tax policy, collecting and disbursing payments for social support programmes, and collecting tax. The Department administers the following social support programmes - Working for Families (tax credits), Paid Parental Leave (payment), Child Support (collection and payment), Student Loan debt (collection), and KiwiSaver. Inland Revenue employs over 5,500 full-time equivalent staff in 17 cities and towns across New Zealand.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.ird.govt.nz/aboutir/ )〕 The Department's Māori name, Te Tari Taake, is an older spelling of ''Te Tari Tāke'', meaning ''The Department () Tax''. Despite long vowels in Māori now being expressed with macrons over the vowel rather than double vowels, the Department continues to use the double vowel due to the resemblance of the word ''tāke'' to the English word ''take''. == History == Inland Revenue started out as the Land Tax Department in 1878. The Department was renamed the Land and Income Tax Department in 1892 with the central office set up in Wellington. Only in 1952, when the organisation joined with the Stamp Duties Department, was the organisation known as the Inland Revenue Department. In 2013–14, Inland Revenue collected $56.2 billion in tax revenue, which was more than 80% of the money the government used to pay for services that all New Zealanders benefited from, including healthcare, education, and law and order. Other services included housing and community development, environmental protection, defence, transport, social security and welfare, and heritage, cultre and recreation.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.ird.govt.nz/resources/3/8/382b8962-6441-4e0c-81bd-e2b9e2961bfa/annual-report-2014.pdf )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Inland Revenue Department (New Zealand)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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