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[London Bridge]

What are the tax rates in Cambodia?

Thanks to anyone who can answer.

[Elkythedogsperson]

I am curious why you're asking--are you looking to see how much you take home after your agreed upon wage?

I can only say from my one-year teaching in PP (with an employment-allowed visa supposedly checked by immigration and the school every three months or so) that I was paid bi-monthly in full in cash at the agreed upon wage (in 2006-7, US$10/classroom hour) and was not told that I had to report my income to Cambodia at all. If any income taxes were paid, they were paid by the school before it reached me.

My impression was as a foreign teacher you're not held too tightly. What they say they pay you, you receive. I probably will stand corrected whether this is the "legal" method, but that was my experience.

[London Bridge]

[PattyFlipper]

I have just left Cambodia, but I understand that the tax authorities are now requiring that employers deduct personal income tax from the salaries of their employees. Previously this was usually paid by the employer, if it was collected at all, and was subject to severe under-declaration and under-the-table pay offs to the tax collectors. International aid agencies have recently insisted that all future financial assistance is contingent upon the collection of taxes according to the fiscal codes and with appropriate accountability - hence the recent change in policy. I do know that a number of expats are now being taxed on their salaries whereas previously they were not. I have no idea what the rates are though.

[khmerhit]

cambodia. try it and see