New Zealand offshore foreign trust


Chur SwitzerlandSouth Island or Te Waipounamu


In 2007 by the Income Tax Act 2007 the New Zealand government legislated that any non resident that establishes a trust in New Zealand can utilise the trust to hold assets or invest in transactions or even trade and pay ZERO TAX IN NEW ZEALAND provided that the settlor is a non-New Zealand resident and the trust does not conduct any taxable activities in New Zealand.

In other words, a New Zealand trust will be a foreign trust if none of its settlors have been resident in New Zealand since the date the trust was first settled.

New Zealand Foreign trusts
are also known as New Zealand Offshore Trusts or New Zealand Non-Resident Trusts. A trust will cease to be a foreign trust if it makes any distribution after a settlor becomes a New Zealand resident, or if a New Zealand resident makes a settlement on the trust.


New Zealand Foreign Trust providers

Amicorp New Zealand Ltd
Provides trust, financial and fund services.

Asiaciti Trust New Zealand Limited
Provides a complete range of international trustee services for private clients.

Baker Tilly (NZ) Trust Services Ltd
Services include establishment of New Zealand foreign trusts, look through companies, limited partnerships and other entities.

Company Solutions Limited
Formation of companies, family trusts and business structures for asset security and tax efficiency.

DFK Oswin Griffiths 
Family and foreign trusts services.

ITA Global Trust (NZ) Limited
Services include private trust and company adminstration.

NZ Securities Ltd
Provides fiduciary and  trust consulting services.

New Zealand Trust & Investment Corporation Limited
Provides onshore and offshore legal structuring, as well as offshore financial services.

New Zealand Companies and Trust Services Limited
New Zealand foreign trust services.

Nexus Tust (New Zealand) Limited
Corporate and trustee services provider.

Palladium Trust Services (NZ) Limited
Trust and Fiduciary Services.

Ross Holmes
Trust administration services.

SouthWest Trustees Limited
Creating and maintaining NZ Foreign Trusts for settlors.

Trustee.net.nz limited
Develop taxation strategies for wealthy individuals, corporations and portfolio management.

Zetland Fiduciaries (New Zealand) Limited
Provide services for New Zealand Company formation, resident companies, special purpose companies and New Zealand foreign trusts.

Trust Legislation: (.PDF Downloads)
Trustee Act 1956 (Reprint as at 1 July 2011)