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Tax retention for consulting services in Kuwait

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Tax retention for consulting services in Kuwait

Tax retention for consulting services in Kuwait

(OP)
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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RE: Tax retention for consulting services in Kuwait

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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.

RE: Tax retention for consulting services in Kuwait

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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