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Resident withholding tax (RWT) on company dividends IR284

A guide for payers of dividends 

About this guide

RWT is deducted from interest on money lent as well as on company dividends. This booklet deals only with RWT on dividends you pay your shareholders.

Adobe Acrobat PDF | 385kb | 37 pages

When to use this guide

We’ve written this guide to tell companies that pay dividends how to comply with the resident withholding tax (RWT) laws. It explains when to deduct RWT from dividends, when to pay the deductions to Inland Revenue, and what information to give to the people who receive the dividends.

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