Taxes: Online technical workshops for taxpayers who are bound by the salary standardization system

Mukhtar Tawfiq, Head of the Egyptian Tax Authority, announced that the Authority has organized online technical workshops for taxpayers who are bound by the second phase (the second sub-stage) of the system for standardizing the foundations and criteria for calculating wages and salaries tax, which will be implemented as of June 15, 2023, on Wednesday of every week. Until the mandatory date, at exactly eleven o’clock in the morning, in order to introduce the system and its functions and how to deal with it, and to answer all inquiries of the financiers.

“Mukhtar Tawfiq” explained that the interest’s organization of these workshops comes from the interest of the interest to provide all support to the financiers who have issued decisions obligating them to a system of unifying the foundations and criteria for calculating the wages and salaries tax, to facilitate their joining the system.

The “head of the Tax Authority” called on the financiers issued by the Minister of Finance’s Decision No. (175) for the year 2023 to implement the second stage (the second sub-stage) of the system of unifying the foundations and criteria for calculating the wages and salaries tax, and who are obligated to work on the actual environment of the system as of June 15, 2023, to attend this Technical workshops, in order to take advantage of the technical discussions that take place during these workshops, indicating that the link for attending the online workshops organized by the Authority was sent to these financiers on their e-mail registered with the Authority, explaining that for the information technology technical team (team IT) in the financiers’ institutions can contact the telephone technical support on the short number 16395, then press No. 7, then No. 2, in order to obtain the necessary technical support.

Mukhtar Tawfiq indicated that, according to the Minister of Finance’s decision No. (175) for the year 2023 to implement the second phase of the system, (100) entities/companies have been obligated to apply a system that standardizes the foundations and criteria for calculating wages and salaries tax as of May 15, 2023 (as a first sub-stage), In addition, (200) entities/companies will be obligated to implement the system as of June 15, 2023 (as a second sub-stage).

The head of the Egyptian Tax Authority explained that the system of unifying the bases and criteria for calculating wages and salaries tax helps to achieve transparency between the different parties (employees, business owners, tax authority, social security, health insurance, etc...), by unifying data sources in A unified system, and confirmation of the validity of the results, indicating that financiers can view the financier’s introductory guide to the system of unifying standards for calculating wages and salaries tax, and the guide to frequently asked questions for the system of unifying standards for calculating wages and salaries tax, and technical workshops by entering your guide to dealing with the system of standardizing calculating Wages and salaries tax on the following link

It is worth noting that the integrated call center receives inquiries at 16395, and to report cases of tax evasion, please call the hotline 16189 from nine in the morning until four in the afternoon, except on Fridays and Saturdays.