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The benefits of an incorporation include:
the ability to establish and run commercial operations for maximum financial benefit to the shareholders
the application of a corporate model to the management of Māori land
autonomy from the normal Māori Land Court practices that apply to trusts, and
voting and resolutions by shareholders are based on the number of shares held, rather than the number of votes received.
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Māori Land Update
Block and trust information
Māori Incorporation Register Māori Land Update
Our Māori Land Update is released annually and provides:
the number of customary and freehold titles of Māori land
the number and types of management structures and the size of the land they are responsible for managing.
Trusts
(Note: The term trusts includes all types of management structure, including Ahu Whenua Trusts, Whenua Tōpū Trusts, Pūtea Trusts,
Māori Incorporations and non-Māori Land Court created structures or organisations but it does not include agencies or agents)
Rohe # Trusts # Blks with
Trusts
# Blks
no Trusts
Area vested(ha) Area not vested(ha)
Taitokerau 1,088 1,459 3,940 88,704.9389 (60%) 59,204.1327 (40%)
Waikato Maniapoto 1,293 1,613 2,115 95,537....
Trusts
(Note: The term trusts includes all types of management structure, including Ahu Whenua Trusts, Whenua Tōpū Trusts, Pūtea Trusts,
Māori Incorporations and non-Māori Land Court created structures or organisations but it does not include agencies or agents)
Rohe # Trusts # Blks with
Trusts
# Blks
no Trusts
Area vested(ha) Area not vested(ha)
Taitokerau 1,088 1,459 3,940 88,704.9389 (60%) 59,204.1327 (40%)
Waikato Maniapoto 1,293 1,613 2,115 95,537....
On 23 March 2020, Chief Judge Isaac released a protocol advising that all scheduled Māori Land Court hearings and other events would be adjourned, to be rescheduled once we ceased to be at Level 4. 2 Any applications for urgent injunctive or other relief filed with the Court during this period were directed to the Chief Judge to address. A significant number of applications were adjourned during this period - in April alone approximately 500 cases were notified in the National Pānui, a...
Once created, the trust is a separate legal entity and is
required to have its own IRD number.
To find out more, visit ird.govt.nz (keywords: business
advisory) and ask a Kaitakawaenga Māori or Community
Compliance Officer to contact you.
Once created, the trust is a separate legal entity and is
required to have its own IRD number.
To find out more, visit ird.govt.nz (keywords: business
advisory) and ask a Kaitakawaenga Māori or Community
Compliance Officer to contact you.
Once created, the trust is a separate legal entity and is
required to have its own IRD number.
To find out more, visit ird.govt.nz (keywords: business
advisory) and ask a Kaitakawaenga Māori or Community
Compliance Officer to contact you.
The idea was that an individual or a whānau could consolidate their shares across a large area and in a large number of blocks with many owners, down into a particular piece of land that they would call their own.
Some administration of the whānau trust is required. An IRD number had to be obtained. We get a small amount of dividend payments each year and a tax return has to be prepared.
