Consent fees
These fees are designed to align with the time spent on the different phases of the consent process. For some applications there is only one fee payable. For applications that involve significant assessment and monitoring of consent conditions several fees are payable.
Consent fee schedule
The following fees and charges are effective from 13 September 2021.
- Significant business assets (SBA)
- Sensitive land: Benefit to New Zealand – General benefit test (including or excluding significant business assets)
- Sensitive land: Benefit to New Zealand – General benefit test – Profit à prendre
- Sensitive land: Benefit to New Zealand – Farm land benefit test (including or excluding significant business assets)
- Sensitive land: Intention to reside
- Sensitive land: Forestry
- Sensitive land: One home to live in
- Sensitive land: Residential land
- Significant business assets (SBA) and sensitive land
- Sensitive land: Apartment off the plans (increased housing test)
- Fishing quota
- National interest
All amounts shown include goods and services tax (GST).
Please note that if an application is rejected, a further lodgement fee is payable if the rejected application is resubmitted. This is in accordance with Regulation 34(2) of the Overseas Investment Regulations 2005.
Significant business assets (SBA)
| Application type | Lodgement fee | Assessment fee | Monitoring compliance fee | Total fee |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Significant business assets 1 | $13,300 | $22,100 | $3,400 | $38,800 |
Sensitive land: Benefit to New Zealand – General benefit test (including or excluding significant business assets)
| Application type | Lodgement fee | Assessment fee | Monitoring compliance fee | Total fee |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| General benefit test – Standard 2 | $13,300 | $45,900 | $9,000 | $68,200 |
| General benefit test – Complex 2 | $13,300 | $113,200 | $9,000 | $135,500 |
Further information on benefit to New Zealand test
Sensitive land: Benefit to New Zealand – General benefit test – Profit à prendre
| Application type | Lodgement fee | Assessment fee | Monitoring compliance fee | Total fee |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Profit à prendre – Standard 3 | $13,300 | $17,300 | $3,000 | $33,600 |
| Profit à prendre – Complex 3 | $13,300 | $42,700 | $3,000 | $59,000 |
Sensitive land: Benefit to New Zealand – Farm land benefit test (including or excluding significant business assets)
| Application type | Lodgement fee | Assessment fee | Monitoring compliance fee | Total fee |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Farm land benefit test – Standard 4 | $13,300 | $51,700 | $9,000 | $74,000 |
| Farm land benefit test – Complex 4 | $13,300 | $119,600 | $9,000 | $141,900 |
Further information on the farm land benefit test
Sensitive land: Intention to reside
| Application type | Lodgement fee | Assessment fee | Monitoring compliance fee | Total fee |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sensitive land – intention to reside 5 | $13,300 | $29,100 | $4,900 | $47,300 |
Further information on investing in land if you are planning to live in New Zealand
Sensitive land: Forestry
| Application type | Lodgement fee | Assessment fee | Monitoring compliance fee | Total fee |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Special forestry test – one off 6 | $13,300 | $17,500 | $3,000 | $33,800 |
| Standing consent | $13,300 | $38,500 | $3,000 | - |
| Notification of a transaction under a standing consent 7 | - | - | - | $11,200 |
Further information on investing in forestry
Sensitive land: One home to live in
| Application type | Lodgement fee | Assessment fee | Monitoring compliance fee | Total fee |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Individual 8 | - | - | - | $2,040 |
| Entity (company, limited partnership or trust) 8 | - | - | - | $5,800 |
| Residential land that is otherwise sensitive 9 | - | $8,100 | $8,800 | $16,900 |
| Waiver application – failing to fulfil conditions 10 | - | - | - | $3,400 |
| Variation of conditions 11 | - | - | - | $3,400 |
Further information on buying residential property to live in
Sensitive land: Residential land
| Application type | Lodgement fee | Assessment fee | Monitoring compliance fee | Total fee |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| One-off consent 12 | $13,300 | $16,800 | $4,900 | $35,000 |
| Standing consent 13 | $13,300 | $40,700 | $3,500 | $57,500 |
| Notification of a transaction under a standing consent 13 | - | - | - | $16,800 |
Further information on investing in residential land to develop
Significant business assets (SBA) and sensitive land
| Application type | Lodgement fee | Assessment fee | Monitoring compliance fee | Total fee |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SBA and special forestry test 14 | $13,300 | $27,900 | $4,400 | $45,600 |
| SBA and residential land 14 | $13,300 | $27,900 | $4,400 | $45,600 |
| SBA and profit à prendre – Standard 15 | $13,300 | $27,900 | $4,400 | $45,600 |
| SBA and profit à prendre – Complex 16 | $13,300 | $67,900 | $4,400 | $85,600 |
Further information on sensitive land
Sensitive land: Apartment off the plans (the increased housing test)
| Application type | Lodgement fee | Assessment fee | Monitoring compliance fee | Total fee |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apartments off the plans 17 | - | - | - | $2,040 |
Further information on investing in residential land to develop
Fishing quota
| Application type | Lodgement fee | Assessment fee | Monitoring compliance fee | Total fee |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fishing quota 18 | $13,300 | $119,600 | $3,400 | $136,300 |
Further information on investing in fishing quota
National interest fee
This fee is additional to the pathway assessment fee. It will be payable if your application requires a national interest assessment under s20A or s20B of the Act.
| Application type | Fee |
|---|---|
| National interest assessment 19 | $83,700 |
Further information on national interest
Exemption fees
These only require a single payment.
| Application type | Fee |
|---|---|
| Exemption certificate – Large apartment 20 | $14,200 |
| Discretionary exemption (s61D) 21 | $37,100 |
| Exemption from farm land advertising criteria* 22 | $13,000 |
| National interest – Exemption from definition of non-New Zealand government investor (s20AA) 23 | $25,500 |
| Exemption – Schedule 3 (portfolio investors) or Schedule 4 (New Zealand controlled persons) 24 | $560 per hour spent considering the application or monitoring compliance |
* This fee is additional to the pathway assessment fee. It is payable where an application for an exemption from the farm land advertising criteria is made.
Further information on exemptions
Variation fees
These only require a single payment.
| Application type | Fee |
|---|---|
| Variation – Time extension only 25 | $10,400 |
| Variation (commitment to reside or residential land commitment to reside standing consents) 26 | $3,400 |
| All other variations 27 | $23,000 |
Further information on variations
Investor test fees
These only require a single payment.
| Application type | Fee |
|---|---|
| Standalone investor test 28 | $25,500 |
| Reassessment of investor test 29 | $13,000 |
| Repeat investor discount for subsequent applications* 30 | $12,500 |
* For applications where the investor test is one of the relevant tests.
Further information on the investor test
Information and services
| Information and services | Fee |
|---|---|
| For each request of provision of information or services 31 | $337 per hour |
Administrative penalties
| Category | Penalty where the one home to live in test applies | Penalty in all other cases |
|---|---|---|
| Late filing of documents 32 | $500 | $500 |
| Retrospective consent, less than $2 million 33 | $5,000 | $20,000 |
| Retrospective consent, between $2 and $10 million 33 | $10,000 | $30,000 |
| Retrospective consent, over $10 million 33 | $10,000 | $40,000 |
How to pay
Fee and penalty payments are made by direct credit. Credit card payments are only accepted for the One home to live in pathway and are made via the webform portal.
How to pay overseas investment fees and penalties
Relevant legislation
Footnotes
1: Overseas Investment Regulations 2005, Schedule 2, Part 3, 18 (a), (b) and (c)
2: Overseas Investment Regulations 2005, Schedule 2, Part 3, 13 (a)–(f)
3: Overseas Investment Regulations 2005, Schedule 2, Part 2, 8 (a)–(f)
4: Overseas Investment Regulations 2005, Schedule 2, Part 3, 15 (a)–(f)
5: Overseas Investment Regulations 2005, Schedule 2, Part 3, 11 (a), (b) and (c)
6: Overseas Investment Regulations 2005, Schedule 2, Part 2, 9 (a), (b) and (c)
7: Overseas Investment Regulations 2005, Schedule 2, Part 2, 10 (a)–(d)
8: Overseas Investment Regulations 2005, Schedule 2, Part 1, 1 (a) and (b)
9: Overseas Investment Regulations 2005, Schedule 2, Part 1, 2 (a), (b) and (c)
10: Overseas Investment Regulations 2005, Schedule 2, Part 2, 4
11: Overseas Investment Regulations 2005, Schedule 2, Part 6, 24
12: Overseas Investment Regulations 2005, Schedule 2, Part 1, 6 (a), (b) and (c)
13: Overseas Investment Regulations 2005, Schedule 2, Part 1, 7 (a)–(d)
14: Overseas Investment Regulations 2005, Schedule 2, Part 3, 17 (c), (d) and (e)
15: Overseas Investment Regulations 2005, Schedule 2, Part 3, 16 (c), (e) and (f)
16: Overseas Investment Regulations 2005, Schedule 2, Part 3, 16 (c), (d) and (f)
17: Overseas Investment Regulations 2005, Schedule 2, Part 1, (3)
18: Overseas Investment Regulations 2005, Schedule 2, Part 4, 20 (a), (b) and (c)
19: Overseas Investment Regulations 2005, Schedule 2, Part 5, 20 (a) and (b)
20: Overseas Investment Regulations 2005, Schedule 2, Part 1, 5
21: Overseas Investment Regulations 2005, Schedule 2, Part 6, 23
22: Overseas Investment Regulations 2005, Schedule 2, Part 7, 27
23: Overseas Investment Regulations 2005, Schedule 2, Part 6, 21
24: Overseas Investment Regulations 2005, Schedule 2, Part 6, 22
25: Overseas Investment Regulations 2005, Schedule 2, Part 6, 25
26: Overseas Investment Regulations 2005, Schedule 2, Part 6, 24
27: Overseas Investment Regulations 2005, Schedule 2, Part 6, 26
28: Overseas Investment Regulations 2005, Schedule 2, Part 7, 29
29: Overseas Investment Regulations 2005, Schedule 2, Part 7, 28 (a) and (b
30: Overseas Investment Regulations 2005, Schedule 2, Part 7, 30 (a) and (b)
31: Overseas Investment Regulations 2005, Schedule 2, Part 8, 31
32: Overseas Investment Regulations 2005, Schedule 2, Part 1, 35
33: Overseas Investment Regulations 2005, Regulations 35 and 36