Egypt public holidays 2026, VAT rate and tax data
Egypt: VAT rate 14% since 1 Jul 2017; 21 public holidays in 2026; corporate tax rate 22.5%; minimum wage 7000 EGP/month; policy interest rate 19%; inflation rate (CPI) 13.9%.
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{ "country": "EG", "series": "vat", "value": 14, "unit": "percent", "effective_from": "2017-07-01", "last_confirmed": "2026-07-15", "source": { "name": "VAT Law No. 67 of 2016, Article 3 (Egyptian Tax Authority official En…", "url": "https://www.eta.gov.eg/sites/default/files/2024-02/Law-english-no.67-2016.pdf.pdf" } }
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Egypt public holidays 2026
21 days in 2026. Official source: Presidency of the Arab Republic of Egypt · last verified 15 Jul 2026
Confirmed 17 Substitute 4
| Date | Holiday | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 Jan 2026 Wed | Coptic Christmas Day | Confirmed | Presidency of the Arab Republic of Egypt |
| 29 Jan 2026 Thu | January 25 Revolution & National Police Day observed; statutory 25 Jan |
Substitute | Presidency of the Arab Republic of Egypt |
| 19 Mar 2026 Thu | Eid al-Fitr holiday | Confirmed | Presidency of the Arab Republic of Egypt |
| 20 Mar 2026 Fri | Eid al-Fitr holiday | Confirmed | Presidency of the Arab Republic of Egypt |
| 21 Mar 2026 Sat | Eid al-Fitr holiday | Confirmed | Presidency of the Arab Republic of Egypt |
| 22 Mar 2026 Sun | Eid al-Fitr holiday | Confirmed | Presidency of the Arab Republic of Egypt |
| 23 Mar 2026 Mon | Eid al-Fitr holiday | Confirmed | Presidency of the Arab Republic of Egypt |
| 13 Apr 2026 Mon | Sham El-Nessim | Confirmed | Presidency of the Arab Republic of Egypt |
| 25 Apr 2026 Sat | Sinai Liberation Day | Confirmed | Presidency of the Arab Republic of Egypt |
| 7 May 2026 Thu | Labour Day observed; statutory 1 May fell on the Friday weekend |
Substitute | Presidency of the Arab Republic of Egypt |
| 26 May 2026 Tue | Arafat Day | Confirmed | Presidency of the Arab Republic of Egypt |
| 27 May 2026 Wed | Eid al-Adha holiday | Confirmed | Presidency of the Arab Republic of Egypt |
| 28 May 2026 Thu | Eid al-Adha holiday | Confirmed | Presidency of the Arab Republic of Egypt |
| 29 May 2026 Fri | Eid al-Adha holiday | Confirmed | Presidency of the Arab Republic of Egypt |
| 30 May 2026 Sat | Eid al-Adha holiday | Confirmed | Presidency of the Arab Republic of Egypt |
| 31 May 2026 Sun | Eid al-Adha holiday | Confirmed | Presidency of the Arab Republic of Egypt |
| 18 Jun 2026 Thu | Islamic New Year 1 Muharram 1448, observed |
Substitute | Presidency of the Arab Republic of Egypt |
| 2 Jul 2026 Thu | June 30 Revolution Day observed; statutory 30 Jun |
Substitute | Presidency of the Arab Republic of Egypt |
| 23 Jul 2026 Thu | July 23 Revolution Day | Confirmed | Presidency of the Arab Republic of Egypt |
| 26 Aug 2026 Wed | Prophet Muhammad's Birthday (Mawlid al-Nabi) | Confirmed | Presidency of the Arab Republic of Egypt |
| 6 Oct 2026 Tue | Armed Forces Day | Confirmed | Presidency of the Arab Republic of Egypt |
Status is read from the record: fixed by law follows from a standing rule (a fixed date or the Easter computus); confirmed is dated in the cited official calendar and not flagged provisional; estimated is provisional or moon-sighting dependent; substitute stands in for a statutory day that fell on a weekend or was moved. Hover a status for the reason.
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Statutory default interest (فوائد التأخير)
5 percent · in force from 1949-10-15 · Official source: القانون المدني المصري الصادر بالقانون رقم 131 لسنة 1948، المادة 226 · last verified 18 Oct 2026 secondary
Variants
| Variant | Value | Applies to | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Commercial obligations (art. 226) (headline) | 5 | Delay interest on commercial money obligations. | — |
| Civil obligations (art. 226) | 4 | Delay interest on civil money obligations. | — |
Withholding tax rates
5–20% across 5 withholding taxes — no single rate · in force from — · Official source: Income Tax Law promulgated by Law No. 91 of 2005 (Ministry of Finance English… · last verified 12 Aug 2026 secondary
Rates by payment type
| key | label | rate | applies to | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| dividends | Withholding tax on dividends to non-residents (unlisted shares) | 10 | dividends paid by Egyptian companies whose shares are NOT listed on the Egyptian Exchange (EGX) to non-resident shareholders | Article 56 of Law 91/2005 - the article… |
| Final tax on the non-resident. See the separate dividends-listed key for EGX-listed shares. | ||||
| dividends-listed | Withholding tax on dividends to non-residents (EGX-listed shares) | 5 | dividends paid to non-resident shareholders from shares listed on the Egyptian Exchange (EGX) | Article 56 of Law 91/2005 - the article… |
| interest | Withholding tax on interest to non-residents | 20 | interest on loans and debt claims paid to non-residents. Article 56 itself exempts interest on loans and credit facilities received from outside Egypt by Government, Local Authority Units and other Public Legal Persons, and exempts public sector, public business sector and private sector borrowers where the loan or facility term is at least three years | Income Tax Law promulgated by Law No… |
| Withheld at the full 20% even where a treaty provides less; the recipient must reclaim the difference from the ETA. | ||||
| royalties | Withholding tax on royalties to non-residents | 20 | royalties paid to non-residents, EXCLUDING amounts paid abroad for a design or know-how rights for serving the industry - a carve-out written into article 56 itself, with the qualifying cases to be specified by the Minister of Finance in agreement with the minister concerned with industry | Income Tax Law promulgated by Law No… |
| services | Withholding tax on service fees to non-residents | 20 | payments for services (including technical, management and professional services) rendered by non-residents and borne by an Egyptian resident or permanent establishment. Article 56 carves out administrative, supervisory and control expenses borne by a head office abroad on the share of its Egyptian permanent establishment | Income Tax Law promulgated by Law No… |
| Whether a specific cross-border service falls within the charge (Egyptian-source) is a facts-based determination; practitioner guidance (Andersen Egypt) treats most service fees borne by Egyptian payers as within the 20% head. | ||||
Personal income tax brackets
0–27.5% across 7 bands · in force from 2024-02-21 · Official source: Egyptian Tax Authority · last verified 17 Jul 2026
| min | max | rate |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | 40000 | 0 |
| 40000 | 55000 | 10 |
| 55000 | 70000 | 15 |
| 70000 | 200000 | 20 |
| 200000 | 400000 | 22.5 |
| 400000 | 1200000 | 25 |
| 1200000 | — | 27.5 |
Statutory social-insurance contributions
0–21% across 9 contribution branches · in force from 2026-01-01 · Official source: Social Insurance and Pensions Law No. 148 of 2019, Arts. 1 (definitions 8 and… · last verified 8 Aug 2026
| key | label | rate total | rate employee | rate employer | unit | base | currency |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| old_age_disability_death | تأمين الشيخوخة والعجز والوفاة (Old-age, disability and death / pension insurance) | 21 | 9 | 12 | percent | أجر الاشتراك — the single comprehensive monthly contribution wage, banded between the EGP 2,700 floor and the EGP 16,700 ceiling. Law 148/2019 Art. 1 definition 8 defines it as the cash consideration received by the insured person from his original employer for his original work, and enumerates its 16 elements (job wage, basic wage, complementary wage, incentives, commissions, qualifying gratuities, allowances other than the expense-reimbursement and benefit-in-kind allowances excluded by PM Decree No. 679 of 1984, overtime, extraordinary-effort compensation, cost-of-living aid, social increments, collective grants and bonuses, and special increments not merged into the basic wage). The same definition delegates BOTH the elements and the minimum and maximum to the Executive Regulation. Law 148/2019 abolished the old Law 79/1975 split between 'basic wage' and 'variable wage' with their separate ceilings: there is now ONE wage and ONE ceiling. | EGP |
| Largest branch and the only one carrying the Art. 19 escalator: the final paragraph of Art. 19 provides that the contribution percentage increases every seven years from the date the Law came into force by 1 percentage point, split equally between employer and insured person… | |||||||
| work_injury | تأمين إصابات العمل (Work injury insurance) | 1.5 | 0 | 1.5 | percent | Same capped أجر الاشتراك. | EGP |
| EMPLOYER-ONLY; nothing is deducted from the employee. The rate is a RANGE, in BOTH directions — the original record captured only the upward one. UPWARD: the 0.5% financial-rights component is risk-rated up to 1% by establishment hazard, so the branch runs 1.5% to 2.0%. The… | |||||||
| sickness | تأمين المرض (Sickness insurance — medical care plus cash wage compensation and transport costs) | 4.25 | 1 | 3.25 | percent | Same capped أجر الاشتراك. | EGP |
| CATEGORY-DEPENDENT EMPLOYER RATE: 3.25% private sector, 3% government/public sector. Only 3.25% reconciles to the 18.75% headline. Applying the government 3% to a private employer understates the liability by 0.25 points. INTERNAL ALLOCATION (Art. 70, allocation clause — missed… | |||||||
| unemployment | تأمين البطالة (Unemployment insurance) | 1 | 0 | 1 | percent | Same capped أجر الاشتراك. | EGP |
| EMPLOYER-ONLY; there is no employee share and no rate variation. Frequently omitted from employer-cost models because it never appears on a payslip. Unaffected by the Comprehensive Health Insurance System. | |||||||
| end_of_service_bonus | نظام المكافأة (End-of-service bonus / compulsory individual savings account) | 2 | 1 | 1 | percent | Same capped أجر الاشتراك. | EGP |
| A branch NEW in Law 148/2019 with no equivalent under Law 79/1975, and the single most-missed component: it is exactly the 1 point that takes the employee from 10% to 11% and the employer from 17.75% to 18.75%. It is a funded individual savings account rather than a pooled… | |||||||
| comprehensive_health_insurance | نظام التأمين الصحي الشامل (Comprehensive/Universal Health Insurance System — UHIS) | 5 | 1 | 4 | percent | CORRECTED — أجر الاشتراك, the SAME capped social-insurance contribution wage as every Law 148/2019 branch, banded EGP 2,700–16,700 for 2026. Law 2/2018 Art. 40 item أولاً charges the insured worker '1% من أجر الاشتراك' and item ثانياً charges the employer '4% شهريًا من أجر الاشتراك للعامل المؤمن عليه وبما لا يقل عن خمسون جنيهًا شهريًا'. The administering authority's own contribution page states the employer share is levied 'من اجمالي أجر الاشتراك للعاملين المؤمن عليهم'. أجر الاشتراك is a capped concept by definition (Law 148/2019 Art. 1 definition 8 delegates its minimum and maximum to the Executive Regulation), so the absence of a restated ceiling in Art. 40 is not the absence of a ceiling. The Comprehensive Health Insurance branch is UNCAPPED and UNFLOORED: employer 4% and employee 1% run on the full comprehensive wage as Law 2/2018 itself defines it, not on the Law 148/2019 band. | EGP |
| SUBSTITUTES, DOES NOT STACK — corrected, and now settled on the instrument rather than refused. The authority's own page decomposes the employer's 4% as '3% تأمين مرض + 1% إصابات عمل', levied in consideration of sickness, treatment and work-injury services. Those two components… | |||||||
| emergency_relief_fund | صندوق إعانات الطوارئ للعمال (Workers' Emergency Relief Fund) | 1 | 0 | 1 | percent | الأجور الأساسية — the 'basic wages' of the workers, NOT the Law 148/2019 contribution wage and NOT total pay. There is no ceiling. | EGP |
| EMPLOYER-ONLY levy, collected by the Ministry of Labour, not by NOSI — it sits outside the social-insurance return and is routinely missed entirely. HEADCOUNT THRESHOLD, NOT A CEILING: it bites only at 30 or more employees, and it is a threshold on the EMPLOYER, not on the… | |||||||
| training_fund | صندوق تمويل التدريب والتأهيل (Training and Rehabilitation Financing Fund) | — | 0 | — | currency per month | A per-worker amount, not a percentage of the individual's pay. Labour Law No. 14 of 2025 Art. 21 states the fund's resources comprise 'نسبة مقطوعة عن كل عامل' — a fixed proportion per worker — together with subsidies, donations and investment return. The quantum is delegated: Art. 20 provides that the Prime Minister issues a decision on the fund's board, its regulations and its FINANCING. | EGP |
| EMPLOYER-ONLY. Rates deliberately left NULL: the statute does not fix a number and the implementing decision could not be reached. Returning a figure here would be a guess. For context only, and NOT verified: advisers (EY) report the new basis as 0.25% of the MINIMUM… | |||||||
| uhis_solidarity_contribution | المساهمة التكافلية (Comprehensive Health Insurance solidarity contribution) — entity-level turnover levy, not payroll | 0.25 | 0 | 0.25 | percent of total annual revenue | جملة الإيرادات السنوية — total annual revenues of the entity, with NO amounts excluded so long as they constitute revenue under Egyptian Accounting Standards, provided the same revenue has not already borne the contribution (anti-double-counting). Not a payroll base and not linked to headcount or wages. | EGP |
| INCLUDED FOR COMPLETENESS as an employer-side levy funding the same health system, but note the unit: it is 0.25% of ANNUAL TURNOVER, not of payroll, and it must not be added to the 18.75% employer payroll rate. Unlike the geographically phased UHIS payroll contribution, this… | |||||||
CBE official exchange rates (buy/sell)
7 reference rates held · in force from 2026-10-29 · Official source: Central Bank of Egypt · last verified 29 Oct 2026
| currency | buy | sell |
|---|---|---|
| USD | 55.9866 | 56.1234 |
| EUR | 62.4194 | 62.5776 |
| CHF | 67.584 | 67.7656 |
| SAR | 14.9182 | 14.9555 |
| KWD | 181.5977 | 182.1007 |
| AED | 15.2436 | 15.2817 |
| CNY | 8.4045 | 8.4253 |
Tax filing deadlines
4 deadline rules · in force from — · Official source: 4 rules, each cited to its own official source; series-level citation is the… · last verified 29 Oct 2026
| key | tax | obligation | label | frequency | applies to | confidence | last confirmed | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vat-return-monthly | vat | return | VAT and table tax return (Form 10) — monthly | monthly | VAT-registered persons (المسجلين بضريبة القيمة المضافة), filed electronically | primary | 2026-10-29 | مصلحة الضرائب المصرية |
| 'Within the month following the end of the tax period' (the tax period ends on the last day of the calendar month), modelled as the last day of the following month. Statutory basis per ETA: Unified Tax Procedures Law No. 206 of 2020, art. 31(a). Payment timing is not stated on… | ||||||||
| paye-salary-tax-remittance-monthly | paye | payment | Salary tax withheld — monthly remittance | monthly | Employers and payers of income subject to salary tax (أصحاب الأعمال والملتزمين بدفع الإيرادات الخاضعة للضريبة على المرتبات) | primary | 2026-10-29 | مصلحة الضرائب المصرية |
| Remit within the first fifteen days of each month (for the previous month's withholding); modelled as the 15th of the following month. ETA's payroll-system FAQ (PDF, not text-extractable) attributes this to art. 14 of Income Tax Law No. 91 of 2005. | ||||||||
| paye-salary-tax-return-quarterly | paye | return | Quarterly salary tax return (Form 4 مرتبات) | quarterly | Employers and payers of salaries and similar income | primary | 2026-10-29 | مصلحة الضرائب المصرية |
| The source illustrates the rule with Q1 2024 (due end of April); generalised to the end of the month following each calendar quarter. CAUTION: this is a 2024 announcement; ETA's newer unified payroll calculation system (monthly calculation form) may have changed the… | ||||||||
| cit-return-annual | cit | return | Corporate (legal persons) annual income tax return | annual | Legal persons (الأشخاص الاعتبارية — الشركات) | primary | 2026-10-29 | مصلحة الضرائب المصرية |
| 30 April for calendar-year companies, otherwise within four months of the company's financial year end; modelled as the last day of the 4th month. Filed electronically. ETA also states (separate news item) that a 60-day filing extension may be requested at least 15 days before… | ||||||||
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