Update (August 8, 2019): (1) New NAPSA ceiling is ZMW 1073.80. (2) Tax bands remain unchanged (see ZRA 2019 Practice Notes).
There has been a lot of hype [1, 2, 3] about Zambia’s supposedly “Pro-Poor” 2012 budget… and rightfully so –it is perhaps the one most significant piece of evidence linking the Patriotic Front [4] to their Socialist agenda. The one thing everyone seems to be talking about though is the new PAYE Tax bands; and effective April 1, 2012 the new personal tax rates in Zambia be as depicted in table below.
TL;DR
I have set up a PAYE tax calculator below that can be used to compute the PAYE tax when inputed with specific figures. Feel free to replace the required input values with your own. Please leave a comment if you have a suggestion or if you notice an anomaly.
Income Tax Bands
| CSC 5741 is a graduate-level course offered as part of the Master of Science in Computer Science programme, in the Department of Computer Science at The University of Zambia. CSC 5741 addresses the concepts, skills, methodologies, and models of data warehousing and data mining. The students are introduced to appropriate techniques for designing data warehouses for various business domains and, concepts for potential uses of the data warehouse and mining opportunities. CSC 5741 also provides students with fundamental concepts and algorithms in knowledge discovery process such as data pre-processing, data mining and post-process evaluation. The course aims to expose learners to the principles of these techniques and appreciate their strengths and applicability to solve problems in daily life. |
| Module 0: Administrivia and Course Introduction —Slide Decks— [1-up] | [4-up] —Lecture Sessions— March 15, 2021 | [Session #1] March 22, 2021 | [Session #2] |
| Module 1: Python for Data Mining and Machine Learning —Slide Decks— [1-up] | [4-up] —Jupyter Notebooks— Python for Data Mining | [ipynb] | [pdf] —Lecture Sessions— March 29, 2021 | [Session #1] April 5, 2021 | [Session #2] April 12, 2021 | [Session #3] |
| Module 2: Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Process —Slide Decks— [1-up] | [4-up] —Lecture Sessions— April 26, 2021 | [Session #1] May 3, 2021 | [Session #2] May 17, 2021 | Invited Talk Speaker: Dr. Ernest O. Zulu | University Teaching Hospital Title: Factors Influencing the Migration Towards a Digitised Radiology in Zambia |
| Module 3: Data Cleaning and Pre-Processing —Slide Decks— [1-up] | [4-up] —Jupyter Notebooks— Data Pre-Processing | [ipynb] | [pdf] —Lecture Sessions— May 24, 2021 | [Session #1] |
| Module 4: Exploratory Data Analysis —Slide Decks— [1-up] | [4-up] —Jupyter Notebooks— Exploratory Data Analysis | [ipynb] | [pdf] —Lecture Sessions— May 30, 2021 | [Session #1] May 31, 2021 | [Session #2] |
| Module 5: Data Transformation Techniques —Slide Decks— [1-up] | [4-up] —Jupyter Notebooks— Data Preparation | [ipynb] | [pdf] Data Transformation | [ipynb] | [pdf] —Lecture Sessions— |
ZRA Tax Computation Guide
The constitution of Zambia—under the PAYE system—mandates employers to deduct gross payments using the following variables
- Total gross pay
- Tax bands
- Statutory deductions (e.g. NAPSA)
A key thing to bare in mind is that a proportion of statutory deductions are removed before the tax calculation—the amount deducted is either 15% of total statutory contributions or ZMW 255.00, whichever is the minimum. For instance if my greedy employers pay me ZMW 4,000.00 every month then the tax calculations would be as follows:
- STEP 1: Deduct Statutory Contributions (Mandatory statutory contribution)
| Academic and Industry Projects |
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| 2021 |
| Enterprise Medical Imaging for Streamlined Radiological Diagnosis in Zambia University Teaching Hospitals, Zambia |
| Design, Implementation and Deployment of Artificial Intelligence Models for Automatic Forecasting of Seasonal Rainfall Zambia Meteorological Department, Zambia |
| Development of a Scalable Registry of Environmental Information Zambia Environmental Management Agency, Zambia |
- STEP 2: Compute Tax Deductions (Using taxable input from STEP 1 as input)
| The Government of the Republic of Zambia with support from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has developed the project “Strengthening Climate Resilience of Agricultural Livelihoods in Agro-Ecological Regions I and II in Zambia (SCRALA)”. The Green Climate Fund (GCF) approved the project in February 2018. The project supports the Government of Zambia to strengthen the resilience to climate change risks of vulnerable smallholder farmers in the country’s Agro-Ecological Regions I and II. One of the key aspects of this project is providing timely and accurate forecasts of seasonal rainfall. This will benefit the agricultural sector by improving the quality and accuracy of tailored agricultural advisories that the Zambia Meteorological Department (ZMD) has been producing and made available to the farmers. The main aim of this project is to strengthen and develop an enhanced seasonal rainfall forecasting system using Artificial Intelligence (Al) techniques. This is one of the deliverables of the SCRALA project in an effort to strengthen the capacity of ZMD to generate, analyse and model climate data in order to provide accurate forecasts for agricultural purposes with a good lead-time. In order to work towards the deliverable, the consultants will work towards designing, implementing and deploying AI-centric models for Automatic Forecasting of Seasonal Rainfall (AFSR). This will be carried out taking advantage of modern technology of computer science concepts that will improve seasonal rainfall forecast accuracy and skill. |
| —Funding— • Zambia Meteorological Department, Zambia |
| —Project Team— • Coming soon |
| —Publication— • Coming soon |
| —Software— • Coming soon |
| —Datasets— • Coming soon |
- STEP 3: Compute Take Home
| Zambia Environmental Management Agency (ZEMA) is mandated by law, through the Environmental Management Act (EMA) Number 12 of 2011 (The Environmental Management Act, 2011, 2011.), to develop and maintain a Registry of Environmental Information (REI). The design and development of the REI in direct response to “Component 2 - Enhancing Institutional capacity to strengthen environmental governance and compliance” of the Zambia Mining and Environment Remediation and Improvement project (ZMERIP), ZEMA requires the design and development of a REI, that will provide free and open access to information to its stakeholders, via the Internet and the ZEMA Intranet (Development of Registry of Environmental Information, 2020.). The main aim of this project is to design and implement a Web-based REI platform for facilitating the following: • Public access to a list of the Acts, statutory instruments, international environmental agreements to which Zambia is a party, and any policies, plans, guidelines, studies, reports, decisions, recommendations and other publications relating to the environment published by the Agency, the Minister or the Government • Public access to a list of every environmental management strategy and environmental management strategy review report issued by any Ministry • Public access to all “State of the Environment” reports and “National Environmental Action Plans” • Public access to all National Waste Management Strategies • Public access to a list of each application for a licence or approval under this Act • Public access to a list of each licence, order and approval issued under this Act • Public access to details of all charges laid and convictions entered for contravention of this Act |
| —Funding— • Zambia Environmental Management Agency, Zambia |
| —Project Team— • Coming soon |
| —Publication— • Coming soon |
| —Software— • Coming soon |
| —Datasets— • Coming soon |
More money in your pockets????
References
[1] https://www.facebook.com/groups/149657968431200/
[2] http://www.lusakatimes.com/2011/11/11/2012-full-budget-address-speech-finance-minster-alexander-chikwanda/
[3] http://www.zambianwatchdog.com/archives/26116
[4] http://www.patriotic-front.com/
[5] http://www.mlss.gov.zm/upload/SI/SI%20general.pdf