Botswana

Paying Taxes in

Botswana

Listed below is a detailed summary of the taxes and mandatory contributions that a medium-size company must pay or withhold in a given year, as well as measures of administrative burden in paying taxes.

The information appearing on this page was collected as part of the Doing Business project, which measures and compares regulations relevant to the life cycle of a small- to medium-sized domestic business in 183 economies. The most recent round of data collection for the project was completed in December 2010.

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Tax or mandatory contribution Payments (number) Notes on Payments Time (hours) Statutory tax rate Tax base Total tax rate (% profit) Notes on TTR
Additional company tax (ACT) 0 paid jointly 10.0% taxable profits 9.7
Corporate income tax 5 40 5.0% taxable profits 4.9
Training tax 0 paid jointly with VAT 0.2% turnover 3.5
Capital gains tax 1 25.0% capital gains 1.3
Fuel tax 1 16 BWP per litre liters of fuel 0.1
Value added tax (VAT) 12 72 12.0% value added not included
Personal income tax 0 40 withheld
Totals: 19 152 19.4
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