Tanzania Revenue Authority : Withholding Tax Rates

Name of the Organization : Tanzania Revenue Authority
Type of Facility : Withholding Tax Rates
Country : Tanzania

Official Website : https://www.tra.go.tz/

Withholding Tax

Withholding tax is the amount of tax retained by one person when making payments to another person in respect of goods supplied or services rendered by the payee.

Related : Tanzania Revenue Authority Online Submission of VAT Returns : www.statusin.org/4794.html

A withholding certificate shall cover a calendar month & shall be served within 30 days after the end of the month

A person receiving or entitled to receive a payment from which income tax is required to be withheld is a withholdee while a person required to withhold income tax from a payment made to a withholdee is referred to as the Withholding Agent.

Withholding Tax Rates : https://www.tra.go.tz/

Payment subject to Withholding Tax :

Withholding tax applies to specific payments including payment that is to be included in calculating the chargeable income of an employee from the employment, payment of investment return including dividend, interest, natural resource payment, rent or royalty, payment in respect to service fee and contract payments and payment in respect to supply of goods to the government and its institutions.

Statement and Time for payment of tax withheld :

** Every withholding agent shall pay to the Commissioner within seven days after the end of each calendar month any income tax that has been withheld.
** Every withholding agent shall file with the Commissioner within 30 days after the end of each six-month calendar period a statement in the manner and form prescribed specifying payments made by the agent during the period that are subject to withholding tax, the name and address of the withholdee, income tax withheld from each payment; and any other information that the Commissioner may prescribe.

Withholding Tax Certificate :

A withholding agent shall prepare and serve on a withholdee a withholding certificate setting out the amount of payments made to the withholdee and income tax withheld from those payments. However, in case of withholding tax from employment tax the certificate shall cover the part of the calendar year during which the employee shall be employed and shall be served by 30 January after the end of the year or, where the employee has ceased employment with the withholding agent during the year, no more than 30 days from the date on which the employment ceased.

Categories of withholding taxes :

The law has divided withholding taxes in to two major categories namely :-
1.Final withholding taxes
2.Non final withholding taxes

Final withholding taxes :
Final withholding taxes are taxes in which the withholdee cannot claim any tax credit when calculating the income tax payable for a year of income.

Non final withholding taxes :
Non final withholding taxes are taxes which the withholdee is entitled for a tax credit an amount equal to the tax treated as paid for the year of income in which the amount is derived.