PAYE calculator: income tax to deduct this month
PAYE is the income tax you deduct from an employee and pay to MRA every month. Mauritius uses a cumulative system: each month you look at everything the employee earned since 1 July, take off the reliefs earned so far, work out the tax on the rest with the bands for the months gone by, and subtract what you already deducted. This calculator does that sum for you.
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- Mauritius uses cumulative PAYE (Income Tax Act s.96(1)). Each pay period you work out the tax on everything the employee earned since 1 July, then subtract the PAYE already deducted. What is left is this period's deduction.
- The exemptions and reliefs on the Employee Declaration Form are spread over 13 pay periods: 12 months plus the end-of-year bonus, which MRA treats as a pay period of its own. Each period earns one thirteenth of the total.
- The tax bands grow the same way. After one pay period the first Rs 38,462 is tax free and the next Rs 38,462 is taxed at 10%. After all 13 the bands are the full-year ones for 2026-2027: first Rs 500,000 at 0%, next Rs 500,000 at 10%, next Rs 11,000,000 at 20%, and anything above Rs 12,000,000 at 35%.
- A month with a bonus gives a bigger deduction, because the bonus pushes more income into a higher band. That is normal.
- If the employee did not give you an Employee Declaration Form, the Act says withhold a flat 15% of the emoluments instead (s.96(2)). This calculator assumes the form was given.
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Before you rely on this
- The employee is paid monthly. For fortnightly or weekly pay MRA spreads the reliefs and the bands over 28 or 56 pay periods instead of 13.
- This is the employee's income tax only. CSG, NSF and the training levy are on the CSG calculator.
- Directors' fees and lump sums have their own rules. Ask your accountant.
This site gives general information, not legal or tax advice. Ask your accountant before you file. Rates edition 2026.1, income year 2026-2027 (1 July 2026 to 30 June 2027). We check every number again after each Finance Act.