Cost of passport issue

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From: Megan

Dear Department of Internal Affairs,

Please produce a breakdown of the costs involved in producing a NZ passport and how this relates to the application fee.

Yours faithfully,
Megan Sloan

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Dear Sloan

Thank you for your enquiry.

We have forwarded your email to our passports team ([email address]). They will respond to you as soon as possible. If you would like to contact the team via phone please call 0800 22 50 50 or (+64 4) 474 8100.

Kind Regards,

Customer Services Team
Shared Services Branch
Department of Internal Affairs - Te Tari Taiwhenua
Phone: (+64 4) 495 7200
www.dia.govt.nz

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Passport Office - Uruwhenua
Department of Internal Affairs - Te Tari Taiwhenua
 
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From: Lesley Tse
Department of Internal Affairs

Dear Megan

 

Thank you for your email of 22 November 2011 requesting, under the
Official Information Act, a breakdown of the costs involved in producing a
New Zealand passport and how this relates to the application fee.

 

Below is a breakdown of these costs.  Please note that these are
approximate long run costs which were determined by the last passport fees
review.

 

ITEM COST $
Personnel 33.70
Passport Book 11.80
E-passport chip and protective inlay 21.97
On-line checking of application against birth and citizenship 3.91
registers
Freight, postage, forms, storage, bank fees, tolls etc 6.16
Computer costs 3.82
Office space 4.08
Overseas posts agency costs 5.52
Passport system developments 11.04
Depreciation and capital charge 7.00
Corporate overheads 9.30
Subsidy for children’s passports, refugee travel documents and 15.00
certificates of identity
GST 20.00
Total 153.30

 

 

 

Yours sincerely

 

 

 

 

 

Lesley Tse

Business Support Officer

Passports Uruwhenua

Service Delivery and Operations

The Department of Internal Affairs  Te Tari Taiwhenua

0800 22 50 50

Fax:  +64 4 382 3403

120 Victoria Street

PO Box 10-526, Wellington

New Zealand

www.dia.govt.nz

 

 

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