Tax Administration Jamaica

Tax Administration Jamaica (TAJ) was established on 1 April 2011 by the Revenue Administration (Amendment) Act 2011, consolidating activities of the former Inland Revenue Department (IRD), Taxpayer Audit and Assessment Department (TAAD) and Tax Administration Services Department (TASD). TAJ became a Semi-Autonomous Revenue Authority (SARA), effective 3 November 2014 and is now operating under a new governance structure and has a Management Board. The Chairman is Gina Phillips Black. TAJ also has direct report to the Financial Secretary. The TAJ is seeking to transform its operations through human resources, processes, technology and physical infrastructure, to accomplish TAJs vision of becoming a world-class tax administration. What is the Role of TAJ? Tax Administration Jamaica is responsible for the administration of domestic tax. What is the TAJ's Mandate? To collect domestic taxes payable in accordance with the law, facilitate voluntary compliance and implement tax laws and policies introduced by the Ministry of Finance & Planning. The organisation has the responsibility to: • Audit, assess and collect domestic taxes. • Promote voluntary compliance through various service channels and educational programmes. • Enforce tax laws. • Provide property management services for tax offices and revenue service centres. • Maintain a taxpayer registry. • Process driver’s licences. • Manage the Motor Vehicle Registry. TAJ's scope of operations includes: The Administration of domestic taxes such as income tax, General Consumption Tax, education, property and asset taxes. TAJ is the primary government collection agency. We provide document processing, such as TRN, compliance certificates, driver's licences, motor vehicle registration certificates and titles.


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