Working Party on the Reorganisation of the Income Tax Act 1976

The Working Party comprised Arthur Valabh (Chair), Dame Margaret Bazley, and Sir Kenneth Keith.

The Working Party issued two reports on the reorganisation of the then Income Tax Act 1976.

[1] Following on from these reports the government in 1995 established a review process for rewriting the income tax legislation, overseen by an advisory panel drawn from the private and public sectors.

[2] The Income Tax Act has since been largely rewritten in a plain English style with a radically re-organised structure, including a unique (for New Zealand) alpha-numeric section referencing system (as opposed to the more usual numeric system.

[6] Its chairs were Colin Blair (1995–2003), Sir Ivor Richardson (2003–08) and David McLay (2008–14).