Tanzania Tax filing deadlines
Tanzania Tax filing deadlines: 4 deadline rules held, cited to 4 rules, each cited to its own official source; series-level citation is the first VAT rule's: TRA. Last checked against the official source on 13 Oct 2026.
Official source: 4 rules, each cited to its own official source; series-level citation is the first VAT rule's: TRA · Last checked 2026-10-13 · source fingerprint
Recurring statutory filing and payment deadlines in Tanzania for VAT/GST returns and payments, PAYE/payroll withholding, corporate income tax returns and provisional payments, held as rules, each cited to the official source with the verbatim phrase that states it. The API computes the actual due dates from these rules, rolled for this country's weekend and national public holidays, and lists every day it stepped over.
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| Current value | 4 deadline rules |
|---|---|
| In force from | — |
| Official source | 4 rules, each cited to its own official source; series-level citation is the first VAT rule's: TRA — Paying taxes: What are the due dates for payment of duties and taxes? |
| Last verified | 2026-10-13 |
| Verification | primary — No verification limitation recorded — read from the official source cited. |
| Provenance | source fingerprint |
What this value means
RULES, NOT DATES. Each rule carries its own citation, anchor phrase and last_confirmed; the series last_confirmed is the oldest of them. effective_from is null on purpose: the rules rest on different instruments with different commencement dates, and no single date would be true of all of them. The paid response adds due_dates, computed from the rules over a window (default the next 365 days; from/to/year_end/tax query parameters). scripts/deadline-verify.mjs re-fetches every cited source and re-finds every anchor.
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Each rule is cited to the official source, with the phrase that states it. A machine re-reads every cited source and re-finds that phrase; a rule whose phrase disappears is flagged for review.
| Tax | Obligation | Frequency | Due | Weekend / holiday | Official source | Last verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VAT / GST | VAT return and payment — monthly VAT-registered taxpayers (Tanzania Mainland, administered by TRA) | monthly | 20th day of the following month | source silent; not moved, flagged | TRA — Paying taxes: What are the due dates for payment of duties and… “vat is due and payable on or before 20th day of the month following the month of the business to which the return relates” | 2026-10-13 |
| PAYE / payroll withholding | PAYE payment — monthly Employers withholding PAYE (Tanzania Mainland) | monthly | 7 days after the period ends | source silent; not moved, flagged | TRA — Paying taxes: What are the due dates for payment of duties and… “paye is payable within seven (7) days after the end of calendar month to which the taxes relate” | 2026-10-13 |
| Corporate income tax | Income tax instalments (provisional assessed tax) — quarterly Taxpayers paying income tax by instalments (companies and individuals required to prepare audited accounts) | quarterly | last day of months 3, 6, 9, 12 of the tax year | source silent; not moved, flagged | TRA — Paying taxes: What are the due dates for payment of duties and… “in case of taxpayers whose accounting periods ends on 31st december the installments shall be due by the end of march, june, september and december” | 2026-10-13 |
| Corporate income tax | Final return of income (and balance of tax) Corporations and other income taxpayers | annual | last day of the 6th month after the period ends | source silent; not moved, flagged | TRA — Paying taxes: What are the due dates for payment of duties and… “final return of income shall be filled and paid (where applicable) within six (6) months after the end of the year of income” | 2026-10-13 |
Due in the next 120 days
| Due date | Obligation | Period | Statutory date, if moved |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-20 | VAT return and payment — monthly | 2026-09-01 – 2026-09-30 | — |
| 2026-11-07 | PAYE payment — monthly | 2026-10-01 – 2026-10-31 | 2026-11-07 2026-11-07 Saturday roll unverified |
| 2026-11-20 | VAT return and payment — monthly | 2026-10-01 – 2026-10-31 | — |
| 2026-12-07 | PAYE payment — monthly | 2026-11-01 – 2026-11-30 | — |
| 2026-12-20 | VAT return and payment — monthly | 2026-11-01 – 2026-11-30 | 2026-12-20 2026-12-20 Sunday roll unverified |
| 2026-12-31 | Income tax instalments (provisional assessed tax) — quarterly (instalment 4 of 4) | 2026-01-01 – 2026-12-31 | — |
| 2027-01-07 | PAYE payment — monthly | 2026-12-01 – 2026-12-31 | — (weekend-checked only) |
| 2027-01-20 | VAT return and payment — monthly | 2026-12-01 – 2026-12-31 | — (weekend-checked only) |
| 2027-02-07 | PAYE payment — monthly | 2027-01-01 – 2027-01-31 | 2027-02-07 2027-02-07 Sunday roll unverified |
Business days exclude this country's weekly rest days (Saturday, Sunday) and the NATIONAL public holidays in its public-holidays series. Regional holidays are not applied. Each due date is computed from the cited rule; the rule is the citable fact, the date is our arithmetic on it. Thresholds, elections, extensions and sector regimes that move a taxpayer between rules are described in each rule's applies_to and notes, not decided here. The served holiday calendar covers 2026-01-01 to 2026-12-31. Dates outside it are weekend-checked only and may still fall on a public holiday. Where roll_unverified is true the statutory date is not a business day and the cited source does not say whether the deadline moves earlier or later. We do not guess: due_date is the statutory date, and the adjustments list names the conflict.
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