Ministry teachers ‘will not be affected by income tax amendments’

AMMAN — Sources at the Ministry of Education (MoE) and the Income and Sales Tax Department (ISTD) have confirmed that the majority of the ministry’s teachers will not be affected by the draft law amending the 2018 Income Tax Law.

Data published by MoE showed that out of the total of 102,636 ministry’s employees, the number of married men working at the ministry whose annual income exceeds JD18,000 amounts to six people, while none of the women working at the ministry perceive an annual income exceeding JD18,000.

The ISTD official spokesman Musa Tarawneh said that the number of households comprising both spouses working at the ministry and whose combined incomes exceed JD18, 000 reaches 477 employees.

He pointed out that the number of unmarried ministry employees whose income exceeds JD9,000, is 324 people, 32 males and 292 females, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported.