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Reference: 20250554
25 August 2025
Martin Taylor
[FYI request #31783 email]
Dear Martin
Thank you for your Official Information Act request, received on 28 July 2025. You
requested the following:
“The Crown accounts include an amount for "Interest on financial liabilities".
Please advise how much of this amount is sourced from Reserve Bank
operations, including the Treasury underwriting of the LSAP programme. Please
provide annual amounts both actual and forecast.
If these Reserve Bank-related charges are not included in this line item, please
advise where they are recorded and their annual amounts.”
Information being released
The table below provides a breakdown of interest on financial liabilities for the year
ended 30 June 2024 and the five-year forecast period to 30 June 2029 presented in the
2025 Budget Economic and Fiscal Update.
2024
2025
2026
2027
2028
2029
Actual
Forecast
Forecast
Forecast
Forecast
Forecast
$m
$m
$m
$m
$m
$m
Interest on financial liabilities
9,747
9,725
10,526
11,597
12,810
13,864
Breakdown:
Reserve Bank
2,970
1,699
1,017
751
652
669
Other
6,777
8,026
9,509
10,846
12,158
13,195
Total
9,747
9,725
10,526
11,597
12,810
13,864
It is worth noting that the Financial Statements of the Government show the
consolidated results and forecasts of the Government Reporting Entity (GRE
)1. As both
the Reserve Bank and the Treasury are part of the GRE, any inter-entity transactions
between them are eliminated when presented in the consolidated Financial Statements
of the Government. When the Reserve Bank sells the bonds to the Treasury, in
addition to paying the Reserve Bank for the market price of the bonds at that time, the
Treasury will reimburse the Bank for the realised loss. Both the receipt by the Reserve
Bank and the payment by the Treasury eliminate (i.e. there is no net impact on the
Government’s financial statements).
1 A list of all entities which form part of the Government Reporting Entity can be found on pages 54 to 56 of the
Financial Statements of the Government of New Zealand for the year ended 30 June 2024.
1 The Terrace
PO Box 3724
Wellington 6140
New Zealand
tel. +64-4-472-2733
https://treasury.govt.nz
Information on the LSAP indemnity can be found on the Reserve Bank’s website. This
includes the monthly LSAP indemnity transfers which covers net interest income or
expense and any realised mark-to-market gains or losses on LSAP bonds sold back to
the Crown. Unrealised mark-to-market losses on LSAP bonds still held by the Reserve
Bank are included in the Crown indemnity balance on the Reserve Bank balance sheet.
You may also refer to the Estimates of Appropriations for Vote Finance which contains
details of estimated actual expenditure for the year ending 30 June 2025 and budgeted
expenditure for the year ending 30 June 2026. The Treasury has an appropriation in
place for payments and expenses in respect of guarantees and indemnities, including
the indemnity obligation related to the fiscal impacts from the LSAP programme.
Information publicly available
The following information is also covered by your request and is publicly available on
the Reserve Bank and the Treasury websites:
Item
Date
Document Description
Website Address
1. 15 August
LSAP indemnity transfers
https://www.rbnz.govt.nz/financial-
2025
markets/domestic-markets/operational-
information/large-scale-asset-purchase-
programme-process
2. 22 May
Estimates of appropriations:
https://www.treasury.govt.nz/publications/esti
2025
Vote Finance - Finance and
mates/vote-finance-finance-and-government-
Government Administration
administration-sector-estimates-
Sector - Estimates of
appropriations-2025-26
Appropriations 2025/26
Accordingly, I have refused your request under section 18(d) of the Official Information
Act:
the information requested is or will soon be publicly available.
Please note that this letter (with your personal details removed) may be published on
the Treasury website.
This reply addresses the information you requested. Under section 28(3) of the Act,
you have the right to ask the Ombudsman to review my decision.
Yours sincerely
Kamlesh Patel
Deputy Chief Government Accountant
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