• Namibia: Budget Statement for 2024/2025 tax year

    The Minister of Finance and Public Enterprises of Namibia delivered the 2024/2025 budget speech on 28 February 2024. Click here to view the full statement. The proposed changes mentioned in the statement are effective from 1 March 2024. Take note…
  • Botswana - Increase in tax exemption for certain lumpsums payments

    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…
  • UPDATED | Ghana: Tax table changes effective 1 January 2024 - effective date confirmed

    Updated post (2024/01/18): The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) have now confirmed the effective date for the tax changes to be 1 January 2024. The tax tables brackets have been confirmed as follows: Take note: Our Sage development teams are currently…
  • Angola: Tax table changes effective 1 January 2024

    One of the changes discussed in the General State Budget 2024, presented to the National Assembly on 31 October 2023, includes; Increasing the threshold for employment income tax by exempting individual taxpayers who earn employment income of up to…
  • Zambia Tax changes effective 1 January 2024

    On 26 December 2023, Zambia enacted the Income Tax Amendment Act of 2023 . The Amendment Act affects the changes proposed in the 2023/24 budget speech. Read more on the Zambia 2023/2024 budget speech. These changes are effective from 1 st January…
  • Zimbabwe: Bonus Exemption increase from 1 November 2023 and Proposed Tax Changes for 2024

    The minister of finance of Zimbabwe has delivered the 2023/2024 budget speech on 30 November 2023. The following changes have been proposed during the budget speech: Bonus exemption: The tax-free ZWL bonus threshold is increased from ZWL500 000…
  • Zimbabwe: New Tax File deployed for Release 6.0c - changes effective August 2023

    The new tax file for Zimbabwe which is effective from 1 August 2023, was deployed on 16 August 2023 at 20:00. All Zimbabwe Users were emailed on 14 August 2023 to review and complete the preparation steps before the deployment of the new the tax…
  • Important notice: Zimbabwe Tax Tables effective 1 August to 31 December 2023 - Preparation for tax file release on 16 August 2023

    The Zimbabwean Minister of Finance and Economic Development has reviewed local currency employment tax bands and tax rates with effect from 01 August 2023. See our original post: Zimbabwe: Tax changes effective August 2023 (local currency) Please…
  • Zimbabwe: Tax changes effective August 2023 (local currency)

    The Zimbabwean Minister of Finance and Economic Development has reviewed local currency employment tax bands and tax rates with effect from 01 August 2023. Click here to view the notice. This annual tax table is already pro-rated for 5 months. These…
  • Important notice: Kenya Tax Tables effective 1 July to 31 December 2023 - Preparation for tax file release

    The Kenyan Court of Appeal has overturned judgments that had prevented the Finance Act from going into effect from July 2023, and the tax changes for Kenya is effective 1 July 2023. Update| Update| Kenya: New Tax Tables effective 1 July 2023 - Suspended…
  • Kenya: Tax table changes effective 1 July 2023 - Judgment overturned

    On 10 July, details were posted on the tax changes for Kenya effective 1 July 2023. Click here to view the original post on Sage City. The tax changes were suspended by the High Court of Kenya, however the Kenyan Court of Appeal has overturned judgments…
  • Update| Kenya: New Tax Tables effective 1 July 2023 - Suspended

    Updated Post 12 July 2023 @ 14:30pm We have just received the following information from our Compliance Team with regard to the Kenya Tax table changes. The tax changes introduced in the Finance Act No.4 of 2023 are suspended by the High Court of…
  • Zimbabwe: New Tax Rates – Effective 1 August 2022

    The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority(ZIMRA) has released the new tax tables effective 1 August 2022. PAYE Tax Tables Click on the documents below to download the tax tables for the local(RTGS/ZWL) and foreign currency(USD) from ZIMRA. Zimbabwe ZWL Aug…
  • Tanzania - Tax proposals for the 2022/2023 tax year

    The Tanzania Finance Bill 2022 has been approved by Parliament and it is subject to the President’s assent in order to become a law. Take note: The changes listed below are the proposed changes and they may be subject to change, The amended Finance…
  • Zimbabwe: Tax changes - Part 2

    The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority has released a Public Notice with a summary of tax changes that are applicable from 01 January 2022. In addition to the change in tax tables, the following has changed: Tax Tables As per the previous communication…
  • Tanzania Tax changes 2021/2022

    As per Finance Act 2021, No 3, Section 25, the PAYE tax tables were updated. These tax changes have been deployed to your system. To find out more about the changes made and more, please click on the What's New button, from the Quick Links menu…
  • Botswana - New Tax Rates Effective 1 July 2021

    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. …
  • Zambia: Tax changes for 2021

    According to the Income Tax (Amendment) Act No 20 of 2020 , the following are the tax changes which affect the PAYE: Disability tax credit – Section 15(a) The new tax credit for differently abled persons is K6 000, K500 per month. Tax table…
  • Zimbabwe: Tax changes - 2021

    Click here to access Zimbabwe’s Finance (No. 2) Act of 2020, it contains tax changes which affect employment income. Summarised as follows: Tax deductions - pension The tax deduction for pension contributions and retirement annuity has increased…
  • Kenya: Tax changes – 2021

    Click here for the Tax Laws Amendment Act, No. 22 of 2020 which introduces some changes which affect the tax on employment income. Monthly Tax tables for 2021 tax year From (KShs) To (KShs) Rate 0,00 24 000,00…
  • Mauritius: Changes to the payroll taxes 2020/2021

    The following payroll tax changes were released by the Mauritius Revenue Authority: 1. Income Exemption Threshold All categories of Income Exemption Threshold have increased as follows: 2. Exempt Person An exempt person means an employee whose…
  • Sierra Leone: New tax tables – Effective 1 January 2020

    The income threshold on which tax is payable by employees and sole traders has been adjusted, following the enactment of the Finance Act 2020. Below is the new tax tables for the 2020 tax year, effective 1 January 2020: In addition to the above…
  • Malawi: Proposed changes to tax tables

    According to the Budget Speech, the tax-free bracket has increased from K35 000 to K45 000. Click here for the Taxation Amendment Bill. The new monthly tax table will be as follows: First K45 000 - 0% Next K5 000 - 15% Next K2 950 000 - 30…
  • Angola: Amendment to Personal Income Tax Code (IRT) - Effective 25 September 2019

    Holiday and Christmas bonuses are now fully taxable according to the amendment to the IRT Code. Click here to view the document of reference. A further amendment is that employment income earned by a taxpayer who is a national citizen over 60…