In Tanzania The United Republic of Tanzania is a country in central East Africa bordered by Kenya and Uganda to the north, Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west, and Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique to the south. The country's eastern borders lie on the Indian Ocean the Income Tax Act, 2004 came into effect in July 2004. This act restructured the income tax An income tax is a tax levied on the income of individuals or business . Various income tax systems exist, with varying degrees of tax incidence. Income taxation can be progressive, proportional, or regressive. When the tax is levied on the income of companies, it is often called a corporate tax, corporate income tax, or profit tax. Individual system in line with modern requirements and repealed the previous Income Tax Act, 1973. Tax To tax is to impose a financial charge or other levy upon a taxpayer (an individual or legal entity) by a state or the functional equivalent of a state such that failure to pay is punishable by law is levied on income Income is the consumption and savings opportunity gained by an entity within a specified time frame, which is generally expressed in monetary terms. However, for households and individuals, "income is the sum of all the wages, salaries, profits, interests payments, rents and other forms of earnings received... in a given period of time." from employment Employment is a contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. An employee may be defined as: "A person in the service of another under any contract of hire, express or implied, oral or written, where the employer has the power or right to control and direct the employee in the material details of how, income from business A business is a legally recognized organization designed to provide goods and/or services to consumers. Businesses are predominant in capitalist economies, most being privately owned and formed to earn profit that will increase the wealth of its owners and grow the business itself. The owners and operators of a business have as one of their main and income from investment Investment is the active redirection of resources/assets to creating benefits in the future; the use of resources/assets to earn income or profit in the future. It is related to saving or deferring consumption.[citation needed] Investment is involved in many areas of the economy, such as business management and finance no matter for households,. Taxable persons include entities and individuals. An entity can be a corporation A corporation is an institution that is granted a charter recognizing it as a separate legal entity having its own rights, privileges, and liabilities distinct from those of its members. There are many different forms of corporations, most of which are used to conduct business or a trust, and a corporation is loosely defined to mean any incorporated or unincorporated body of persons or association. For partnerships A partnership is a type of business entity in which partners share with each other the profits or losses of the business. Partnerships are often favored over corporations for taxation purposes, as the partnership structure does not generally incur a tax on profits before it is distributed to the partners (i.e. there is no dividend tax levied) the individuals within the partnership are taxed on their share of the income. Taxation is on worldwide income for residents (or for individuals, of residents of more than two years) while taxation of non-residents is on Tanzanian source income only. The corporate tax rate is 30%. The individual tax threshold is Tsh 1,200,000 per annum, and the rates are from 15% to a top rate of 30%. Various provisional and final withholding taxes are applied to ease the collection of tax.
Both the Income Tax Act, 2004 itself and a comprehensive interactive guide to income tax for Tanzanian residents is provided on the website of the Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs of Tanzania (see guide).
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