The Min­istry of Fi­nance (MOF), through the In­land Rev­enue Di­vi­sion (IRD), will shift to a ful­ly dig­i­tal sys­tem for fil­ing Amuse­ment Gam­ing Tax re­turns from April 1.

In a no­tice to li­cence hold­ers, the IRD ad­vised that all re­turns will now be ac­cessed and processed ex­clu­sive­ly through its e-Tax Logged In Ser­vice, mark­ing the end of pa­per-based sub­mis­sions for the tax.

The di­vi­sion stat­ed that pa­per re­turns will no longer be ac­cept­ed for the Amuse­ment Gam­ing Tax from the 2026 pe­ri­od. How­ev­er, li­cence hold­ers with out­stand­ing re­turns for pe­ri­ods pri­or to the tran­si­tion are re­quired to sub­mit those us­ing the ex­ist­ing man­u­al process.

Un­der the new sys­tem, tax­pay­ers must up­load all re­quired in­for­ma­tion and sup­port­ing doc­u­ments elec­tron­i­cal­ly, in­clud­ing de­tails on the num­ber of ma­chines op­er­at­ing at their premis­es.

To ac­cess the ser­vice, li­cence hold­ers must ob­tain a ttcon­nect ID, which is re­quired to reg­is­ter for e-Tax Ser­vices and file re­turns on­line. Once reg­is­tered, users can ac­cess the plat­form via the IRD’s on­line por­tal.

The IRD out­lined that ap­pli­cants can ob­tain a ttcon­nect ID by com­plet­ing the ap­pli­ca­tion form on­line or vis­it­ing a ttcon­nect ser­vice cen­tre.

In­di­vid­u­als must pro­vide two valid forms of iden­ti­fi­ca­tion, such as a pass­port, na­tion­al ID card, dri­ver’s per­mit, or birth cer­tifi­cate.

Ap­pli­cants are al­so re­quired to sub­mit one doc­u­ment to ver­i­fy their BIR num­ber, in­clud­ing an Ad­vice of As­sign­ment, No­tice of As­sess­ment, or Tax Clear­ance Cer­tifi­cate.

For ap­pli­ca­tions sub­mit­ted elec­tron­i­cal­ly, in­di­vid­u­als must in­clude a pho­to­graph of them­selves hold­ing a valid pho­to ID, tak­en against a sol­id white back­ground.

The IRD is urg­ing all af­fect­ed li­cence hold­ers to com­plete the reg­is­tra­tion process ahead of the April 1 dead­line to en­sure a smooth tran­si­tion to the dig­i­tal sys­tem.