SKILLS DEVELOPMENT LEVY ACT
Arrangement of Sections
Section
8. Recovery of levy, assessment and other matters
AN ACT
to provide for the imposition, payment and collection of a skills development levy at the rate of 0.5 percent of gross emoluments; and to provide for matters connected with, or incidental to, the foregoing.
[1st January, 2017]
Act 46 of 2016,
Act 13 of 2017
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Act 24 of 2020.
This Act may be cited as the Skills Development Levy Act.
In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires-
"casual employee" has the meaning assigned to it in the Employment Act;
"Commissioner-General" has the meaning assigned to it in the Zambia Revenue Authority Act;
"emolument" has the meaning assigned to it in the Income Tax Act;
"employee" has the meaning assigned to it in the Employment Act;
"employer" has the meaning assigned to it in the Employment Act;
"Fund" means the Technical Education, Vocational and Entrepreneurship Training Authority Fund established under the Technical Education, Vocational and Entrepreneurship Training Act, 1998;
"levy" means the skills development levy charged under section 4;
"pension benefit" has the meaning assigned to it in the Constitution; and
"public benefit organisation" has the meaning assigned to it in the Income Tax Act.
The Commissioner-General shall, subject to the direction of the Minister, give effect to the provisions of this Act and shall, for that purpose, have all the powers conferred on the Commissioner-General by the Zambia Revenue Authority Act and the Income Tax Act.
(1) A skills development levy at the rate of 0.5 percent shall be charged, levied, collected and paid by an employer, on the gross emoluments payable to an employee, including a casual employee, during a month.
(2) The levy shall be calculated on the gross emoluments payable by an employer to the employee, referred to in sub-section (1).
(3) A levy payable by an employer shall not be deducted from the emoluments of an employee.
[S 4(3) subs by s 2 of Act 24 of 2020.]
(4) The amount of emolument referred to in sub-section (1) shall not include an amount paid or payable to an employee by way of a pension benefit.
An employer shall pay the levy to the Commissioner-General at the time when an employee's emolument is paid or is payable or deemed to be paid or payable to the employee and shall be remitted by the employer to the Commissioner-General not later than the tenth day of the month following the month in which the levy becomes due.
(1) The levy is not payable by-
(a) an employer in the public service or a local authority;
(b) an employer whose annual turnover is below eight hundred thousand kwacha; and
(c) a public benefit organisation approved as such under the Income Tax Act, exclusively established for the purpose of providing a public benefit or an organisation exempted from income taxation under any other written law.
[S 6(1)(c) am by s 2 of Act 13 of 2017.]
(2) The Minister may, by statutory instrument, exempt any person from the payment of the levy.
The levy collected under this Act shall be paid into the Fund.
8. Recovery of levy, assessment and other matters
Subject to the provisions of this Act, the provisions of the Income Tax Act apply to this Act in respect of the following-
(a) the recovery of the levy;
(b) the filing of returns;
(c) assessments of the levy payable;
(d) the keeping of records;
(e) the furnishing of information and production of documents;
(f) delegation of authority;
(g) the appointment of authorised officers;
(h) penalties and sanctions;
(i) reviews and appeals; and
(j) the priority of tax debts in bankruptcy.
The Commissioner-General may, by notice in the Gazette, make administrative rules for the proper administration of this Act.
The Minister may, by statutory instrument, make regulations for the proper carrying out of the provisions of this Act.
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