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Tax retention for consulting services in Kuwait

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glass99

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Jun 23, 2010
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I am writing a proposal for a project in Kuwait and I believe there is a 5% tax retainage that my client will have to subtract from our invoices. Apparently you can get your 5% back if you get a letter from the Kuwait government (aka the "DIT"), but I don't know how that works exactly. Does anyone have experience with this? I need to know whether to include the 5%.
 
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@LittleInch: yes I think they make it hard to get your 5% back. Registering as an entity etc would probably mean 10's or hundreds of hours of admin slog.
 
More importantly its the cost of the local tax advisors.

Far better to be subcontract to a local company who's registered there already.

You'll always find some relative of the people you're working for who can arrange this, for a fee....

But how much work for how long? A one off or many years?


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