An Auckland woman who supplied local growers with pickers has been sentenced to home detention for evading nearly $1.5 million in tax.

Haitelenisia Kaumavae appeared in Pukekohe District Court after pleading guilty to four charges of tax evasion.

The income tax files were not filed for four consecutive years, GST returns were either not filed or false returns were filed over a three-year period.

She was sentenced to nine months' home detention and ordered to pay a reparation of six and a half thousand dollars.