Regular Saturday operations for select tax offices become effective this weekend
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Tax Administration Jamaica (TAJ) says it will operate select tax offices in several parishes on Saturdays, beginning May 3, 2025.
This follows an announcement by the finance minister during a recent budget presentation.
TAJ says during this period, taxpayers will be able to conduct the full suite of weekday services, with the exception of audit and compliance activities. It said this move is an expansion of the Saturday operations that TAJ has previously offered at a few select tax offices on month-end Saturdays over the last few years.
“The expanded Saturday openings provide taxpayers with greater convenient options of doing business on these scheduled weekends, as well as to alleviate the usually high walk-in traffic at tax offices during the particularly busy month-end weekday period,” TAJ said in a statement on Friday.
TAJ says taxpayers will be able to access taxpayer service activities including processing motor vehicle registration and other motor vehicle transactions, applying for a taxpayer registration number (TRN), dropping off documents for the renewal of their driver’s licence, and making tax and fee payments, as the tax authority continues to provide additional access to its services.
Persons wishing to make payments for property tax may also utilise the added convenience of TAJ’s expanded Saturday operating hours. Additionally, motorists who have not yet collected their printed driver’s licence cards are able to do so at any of the listed locations if their applications were dropped off there.
As the authority continues to work through the administrative details, over the next three months (May to July) the following tax offices will operate on scheduled Saturdays between the hours of 10:00 am to 2:00 pm:
TAJ says its tax office in Portmore, St Catherine will continue its usual weekly Saturday operations, with its normal business hours between 9:00 am and 2:00 pm.
Individuals are reminded that they can conduct transactions with the tax office online, including the payment for driver’s licence renewal, fitness certificate, traffic ticket, business-related taxes and deductions and property tax, as well as electronically querying property tax liabilities.
