Every monthly and annual date a Timor-Leste employer owes to the tax office and Social Security — and exactly what Xefe prepares for each one, straight from payroll you've already paid.
Xefe computes your wage income tax (WIT) and INSS contributions from payroll you've actually run and paid — never from an estimate. WIT follows the month wages are paid, and each employee must be marked resident or non-resident using the tax residence tests; nationality and shareholder status do not create a tax exemption. You stay in control of what actually gets submitted and when: Xefe prepares the numbers and the paperwork, not the click that files them.
A filing and its payment are separate obligations. Xefe tracks both statuses for WIT and INSS. Services tax and income-tax installments each have their own declaration record: filing one never marks another as filed just because the month matches. Once a declaration is recorded as filed, its declared figures are frozen; evidence can still be added.
Each tax is paid into its own government collection account, and putting a payment in the wrong one is a real risk when four of them differ by three digits. So Xefe names the exact account for the tax you are paying, builds the transfer description the tax office reconciles by — your taxpayer number comes first, because that is the part that identifies the payment — and generates the signed payment order your bank needs. Once the money has moved, recording it here posts it to your books: an income-tax installment is held as tax paid in advance, because it is credited against your annual bill rather than being an expense.
If the tax office assessed a penalty or late interest, you enter those figures from the notice, and those are what Xefe books. When a payment is late, Xefe also shows an estimate to check the notice against: $100 if the return itself was late, 5% of the unpaid tax, and 1% a month after that (UNTAET Regulation 2000/18, Secs. 72.1 and 73.1). The notice is what counts. Social Security's 1% per month is written into its own law (Decree-Law 20/2017, Art. 39), so Xefe calculates that one for you.
Xefe prepares exact figures and exports built to the government's own templates — the INSS portal's remuneration statement, the ATTL wage tax form. Submitting them still happens on the government's own portals, under your name. For the annual income tax return, Xefe goes one step further and prepares a full workpaper of the figures behind it — but the return itself is built for an accountant to review and file. Xefe never files anything on your behalf.
Xefe calculates. You, or your accountant, submit. That split is deliberate: the numbers are exact, but the responsibility for filing stays with someone who can sign for it.
The simple flow applies safe defaults, so a first-time small business is never asked to make a tax decision by accident. Accountant-grade detail — return-by-return figures, reconciliations, the annual workpaper — is there the moment you need it. See the accountant partners page for what changes once one joins your team.