HR & Payroll Specialist
Employee payroll and taxation in Uganda means calculating gross pay, deducting PAYE income tax and the 15% NSSF employee contribution, remitting both to URA and NSSF, and filing the required returns on schedule every month.
Running payroll in Uganda means working with two authorities: the Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) for PAYE and the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) for retirement contributions. Both have strict deadlines and real penalties for lateness.
Every employee gets statutory deductions that are non-negotiable and must be remitted, not kept.
A reliable monthly routine looks like: capture attendance and adjustments, calculate gross-to-net, review exceptions, remit deductions to URA and NSSF, pay net salaries, and file the returns. When every step has a date, payroll stops being a fire drill.
Keep payslips, remittance proof, and employee records for every cycle. If URA queries a figure, the fastest way out is a complete, timestamped payroll record you can produce in minutes.
PAYE income tax remitted to URA, plus employee NSSF contributions, with an employer NSSF contribution of 10%.
PAYE is due and payable to URA monthly, with the exact deadline set by URA's calendar — late remittance attracts penalties.
Apply Uganda's progressive PAYE bands to gross taxable pay. Payroll software applies the correct bands automatically.
Employees contribute a percentage of basic pay; employers match with a 10% contribution. Confirm current rates with NSSF.
Yes. Retten Work applies Uganda's PAYE and NSSF rules and tracks remittances and returns.
