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IR/Justice Fines Defaulters Tracing Programme
Annual report
Purpose: To enable the Ministry of Justice locate people who have outstanding fines in order to enforce payment.
Year commenced: 2002
Features: Data transferred up to 12 times a year by CD.
Justice disclosure to IR: Justice selects fines defaulters for whom it has been unable to find a current address, and sends the full name, date of birth and Justice unique identifier number to IR.
IR disclosure to Justice: For matched records, IR supplies address and contact details along with the unique identifier information originally provided by Justice.
2010/11 activity:
| Match runs | 6 |
| Records sent for matching | 65,095 |
| Possible matches identified | 36,708 |
| Notices of adverse action | 29,113 |
| Challenges | 94 |
| Successful challenges | 40 |
| Collection instituted | 7,458 |
| Amount paid or settled | $3,744,129 |
Commentary: Last year we reported that a system fault and resource issues limited the amount of matching undertaken. The problems from last year have now been resolved and matching activity is increasing.
This programme is expected to go to a daily matching cycle in the next reporting period.
Compliance: Compliant
Technical information
| Information matching provision | Tax Administration Act 1994, s.85A |
| Year authorised | 1998 |
| Programme type | Locating people |
| Unique identifiers | Personal Profile Number |
System description
Up to 12 times per year Justice uses an encrypted CD to send details of fines defaulters whom they have lost contact with to Inland Revenue Justice sends the full name, date of birth, and unique identifier information about the selected fines defaulters. IR attempts to match the fines defaulter information with taxpayer information using the full name and date of birth.
For matched records, IR returns an encrypted CD to Justice with details of the client address, address date and telephone number(s), along with the unique identifier information originally provided by Justice. Each match record supplied by IR includes a match indicator code that represents how well the records matched.
| 2005/06 | 2006/07 | 2007/08 | 2008/09[1] | 2009/10 | |
| Match runs | 8 | 13 | 11 | 7 | 3 |
| Records sent for matching | 307,230 | 474,709 | 343,200 | 129,476 | 32,152 |
| Possible matches identified (addresses)[2] |
82,075 | 128,259 | 102,955 | 36,129 | 6,421 |
| Notices of adverse action | 81,305 | 128,227 | 97,152 | 23,414 | 3,705 |
| Challenges | 55 | 83 | 81 | 52 | 47 |
| Successful challenges | 41 | 62 | 53 | 23 | 6 |
| Collection instituted | 29,666 | 43,033 | 35,036 | 13,495 | 1,849 |
| Amount paid/remitted | $22,925,078 | $37,765,080 | $33,059,260 | $11,854,994 | $678,874 |
[1] These are final figures ('in progress' figures were provided in the 2008/09 Annual Report).
[2] "Possible matches" excludes those apparent matches that have invalid address data and for those for which Justice has already received a "gone no address" notice for that individual/address combination.