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ISTD calls for submitting of employees statements and withheld amounts on monthly basis

20/01/2021

The department called on all financial managers to commit to deducting and providing income tax amounts withheld from salaries and wages for the fiscal year 2021 on a monthly basis.

The Department also called for the necessity to upload them as monthly statements on excel sheets to the e-government portal, including the employee's full name, the national number or the social security number, the total salary , and the amounts withheld as income tax and national contribution.

It stressed the need to adhere to withholding income tax in proportion to the amount of personal and family exemptions approved by Income Tax Law No. 34 of 2014 amended by Law No. (38) of 2018, which limited the personal exemptions to nine thousand dinars and the family exemptions  as well to nine thousand dinars For the year of 2020 and onwards.

The department emphasized the necessity of commitment to pay the withheld amounts from the salaries and wages  to the department on a monthly basis, as well as providing the department with statements of all withheld amounts that were withheld and paid for any month before the end of the following month, according to the provisions of the law.


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