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How to create a custom Taxation Law

Last updated on Sep 03, 2024

1- Click on “Settings” from main menu


2- Click on “Laws” tab


3- Click on “Taxation Laws” tab


4- Click on “Add New” button


5- Fill in Taxation Law Information as follows

5.1-Name in English: Taxation law name in English Language that should neither be repeated nor left blank

5.2-Name in Arabic: Taxation law name in Arabic Language that should not be left blank

5.3-Year Start Month: starting month in year to calculate taxation that is entered in

numbers such that 1 stands for January and 12 stands for December

5.4-Year End Month: ending month in year to calculate taxation that is entered in numbers such that 1 stands for January and 12 stands for December

5.5-Law Currency: chosen from pre-defined currencies in Currency Settings

5.6-Calculation Mode: Choose the Calculation mode to be either “Auto Reconciliation” which will reconcile the calculated tax amount every month or “Yearly” which will calculate monthly tax amount and reconcile at the end of the year

5.7-Segment Behavior: choose the Segment behavior to be either “Full Payment” meaning that if the employee is hired or resigned in the middle of the month, tax calculation will be on the full segments, or “Prorated ” meaning that the tax calculation will be a partial amount of the segment based on the hire date or last working day of the employee


6- Click on “Add Taxable Elements” button


7- Choose Pay element from pre-added pay elements in Payroll Management Settings and write down its percentage then press on check mark button


8- Repeat the same procedure starting from step 6 until all Taxable Elements are added


9- Click on “Segments” tab


10- Click on “Add Segment” button


11- Fill in segments Information as follows

11.1-From Value: segment lower bound amount

11.2-To Value: segment upper bound amount

11.3-From Income: Which is the minimum threshold for yearly income

11.4-To Income: which is the maximum threshold for the yearly income

11.5-Percentage: tax percentage

11.6-From Date: tax applying start date

11.7-To Date: tax applying end date , note that end date is optional it is only used if the segment has an expiry date where beyond this date that segment could no longer be applied

11.8-Click on check mark button after filing in Taxation Segments information


12- Repeat the procedure starting from step 10 until all taxation Segments are added


13- Click on “Exemptions” tab


14- Click on “Add Exemption” button


15- Fill in Exemption Information as follows

15.1-Exemption: yearly exemption amount

15.2-Start Date: exemption start date

15.3-End Date: exemption end date , end date is optional it is only used if the exemption has an expiry date where beyond this date that segment could no longer be applied

15.4-Click on checkmark button to add the exemption Information to the Taxation Law being created


16- Repeat the procedure starting from step 14 until all exemptions are added


17- After adding all exemptions information click on “Add” button