Browse By Tags

Botswana has enacted/promulgated the Income Tax Amendment Act of 2024, effective 15 January 2024. The amendments increase the tax exemption from one third to 50% for certain lumpsums received by an employee, below is summary of the changes: Gratuity…

Botswana has enacted/promulgated the Income Tax Amendment Act of 2024, effective 15 January 2024. The amendments increase the tax exemption from one third to 50% for certain lumpsums received by an employee, below is summary of the changes: Gratuity…

Botswana has enacted/promulgated the Income Tax Amendment Act of 2024, effective 15 January 2024. The amendments increase the tax exemption from one third to 50% for certain lumpsums received by an employee, below is summary of the changes: Gratuity…

Good day, Do you have a Botswana tax calculator that I can use to do a manual calculation?

A patch file has been released for Sage VIP Classic and Sage VIP Premier Release 6.0a and 6.0b and is available on the Sage Portal . The patch file includes an updated Excel template for the Botswana ITW8 Pre-printed stationary, where the page breaks…

The new tax rates for Botswana have been published in the Income Tax Amendment Act, 2021 and are effective 1 July 2021. Please click here to view the Income Tax Amendment Act and click here to view the Income Tax Amendment Act Commencement Order. …

The new tax rates for Botswana have been published in the Income Tax Amendment Act, 2021 and are effective 1 July 2021. Please click here to view the Income Tax Amendment Act and click here to view the Income Tax Amendment Act Commencement Order. …

Some temporary files are not automatically removed and need to be maintained manually. In essence, some or all files in certain directories could be removed periodically, as noted below: For all cases described, ensure all Sage X3 services are stopped…

A new report template has been made available for download. When the ITW10 report is generated for the current tax year, the report includes employees who do not form part of the current year submission. Before installing the software, take note…

Depending on your users’ active hours and busiest times, you may want to ensure that some heavy processing batch jobs, such as described in this document, are not executed during the users’ main working hours You should additionally consider when the…

If you upgrade or patch the main folder, the historic folder (e.g. HSEED in this example) will need to be manually revalidated. You will see messages to this effect, for example you will see message “The folder validation must be relaunched for the…

Dear X3 HR and Payroll User, An issue has been identified on the Botswana ITW8 Report where the occupation of the employee displayed incorrectly as well as the periods employed during the tax year. The occupation now reflects the job title of the employee…

Click here to view the Sage200cVIP Classic Premier Newsflash for July 2020

Click here to view the Sage200cVIP Classic Premier Newsflash for June 2020.

When printing the ITW7a Online Submission from release 5.4c+, employees who were terminated 5 years ago are now incorrectly included in the report. A new Report template has been made available for download, please click here to visit the software downloads…

Dear X3 HR and Payroll User, BURS published an updated online ITW7A report which must be used for the new online Lekgetho Live Tax Management System which went live on the 11 th of May 2020. As a result of this, the deadline for PAYE submission has…

BURS has published a notification that the PAYE submission deadline of the 15th of April and the 15th of May 2020 has been extended to the 30 th of June 2020. This extension is due to technical problems experienced with the transition to the new Tax…

BURS has published a notification that the PAYE submission deadline of the 15th of April and the 15th of May 2020 has been extended to the 30 th of June 2020. This extension is due to technical problems experienced with the transition to the new Tax…

The latest version for Sage Classic and Sage Premier is available to download on the Customer Zone from 1 June 2020. The initial version Release 5.4c was replaced with Release 5.4c+ as from 2 June 2020, in order to rectify an ETI recalculation issue…

The latest version for Sage Classic and Sage Premier is available to download on the Customer Zone from 29 May 2020. The initial version Release 5.4c was replaced with Release 5.4c+ as from 2 June 2020, in order to rectify an ETI recalculation issue…

We have received more details on the software release date for Release 5.4c. Product Scheduled Release Date Sage Classic / Sage Premier 29 May 2020 Premier ESS 10.2 (compatible with 5.4c)* 29 May 2020 (afternoon only) Premier…

The Minister of Finance has announced a wage subsidy for certain business registered for tax effective April 2020 until June 2020. The Wage Subsidy Claim Form will be available as a selection on your Botswana Reports - COVID-19 Wage Subsidy Claim Form…

The Minister of Finance has announced a wage subsidy for certain business registered for tax effective April 2020 until June 2020. The Wage Subsidy Claim Form will be available as a selection on your Botswana Reports - COVID-19 Wage Subsidy Claim Form…

Dear X3 HR and Payroll User, The Minister of Finance has announced a Wage Subsidy Claim Form for certain businesses registered for tax (irrespective whether they ow tax) effective April 2020 until June 2020. Please refer to the attached guidelines…