Reminder to SPCA donors to claim their tax credit

Have you made a donation to SPCA in the last year? Did you know that you are able to claim back 33.33% of the total sum of all your donations for the period 1 April 2024 – 31 March 2025? You can also claim up to four years previous if you haven't already done so.

You can easily claim back one third of your total donations (for any donations over $5) online. It’s easy to do yourself with the IRD. You simply need tax receipts to do this, either a photo, or a scanned version of the physical receipt document. You also require a login to myIR, or alternatively a RealMe login.

• One-off donation: you can submit the receipt which was issued to you each time you made a one-off donation over the last year.
• Regular donation (SPCA Guardian): you will receive an end-of-year receipt for all your monthly donations in April

1. Login for your myIR account. If you don’t have one, registering is easy. You will need your IRD number and to make note when signing up that you want to be able to received donation tax credits
2. Once you have logged in to the myIR portal and you are on the home page, you will see a 'donation tax credit' section near the top of the page. To the right of this section, click on the wording 'Enter donation tax credit receipts'
3. On the next page, click on 'Add a receipt'
4. You will need to enter the details of the charity organisation name. This is The Royal NZ Society forthe Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
5. Our charity registration number is CC23722
6. You will also need to enter our IRD number which is 060-328-560 and the amount you have donated. This has been collated on your donation receipt
7. The form will ask what type of organisation your claim is for (i.e. religious, school, kindergarten or other). For SPCA, this will be ‘other’
8. Select 'Next'
9. Click 'Add receipt attachments'. You can attach the receipt by saving the pdf to your own computer and uploading it. If you have a physical copy, the IRD will also accept a scan or a photo of the receipt. You will need to select the type of attachment and put in a description of the document 'e.g. - Tax receipt 2024'
10. Once all the required fields have been filled in, click 'OK' to go through to the following page. This will summarise the receipt details. If it all looks correct, press 'next' again
11. On the final page, it will ask you if you would like to transfer your credit. You can press 'yes' if you wish to do so (for example back to SPCA) and 'no' if you would like the credit to come back to you
12. Select ‘Submit’

If you would like to talk to our friendly Supporter Care team at any stage about the tax reclaim process, please send us an email to fundraising@spca.nz, or give us a call on 0800 888 444.

If you need to make your claim by post instead of online, you can download and print this IRD tax credit claim form and send it to the following address:

Inland Revenue

PO Box 39090

Wellington Mail Centre

Lower Hutt 5045

Finally, as the financial year comes to a close, we want to say a huge thank you to every single New Zealander who has donated in any way over the past year. With 90% of our work funded through the kindness of the public, we simply wouldn’t achieve what we do without you.