About Tax Clearance Compliance Certificate (Quitus)
Tax Compliance Certificate known as Quitus Fiscal is a certificate issued to taxpayers who have manifested high integrity in their transactions with RRA. It is a certificate that shows that the taxpayer always correctly and timely files his/ her tax returns and pays due taxes on time .
If you are a registered taxpayer who regularly files and pays due taxes on time, you are eligible to apply for Quitus Fiscal.
The requirements vary from year to year. To get the re quirements for 2025 click here and for the Quitus application form please click here.
Once you have this document , you have the benefit of clearing your goods from the customs warehouse without paying the 5 % withholding tax payable at customs during the importation of goods and 3% payable at the time a public tender is awarded.
The Quitus Fiscal certificate is issued online and it takes at least 5 working days to get this done. Once taxpayer pays a fee of ten thousand Rwandan Francs (10.000), this certificate is generated quickly online at any given time. The Quitus Fiscal is valid until the last day of the year regardless of when you acquired the certificate.