Ethiopia public holidays 2026, VAT rate and tax data
Ethiopia: VAT rate 15% since 21 Aug 2024; 12 public holidays in 2026; corporate tax rate 30%; policy interest rate 16%; inflation rate (CPI) 14.9%.
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{ "country": "ET", "series": "vat", "value": 15, "unit": "percent", "effective_from": "2024-08-21", "last_confirmed": "2026-07-15", "source": { "name": "Value Added Tax Proclamation No. 1341/2024, Article 8(2)", "url": "https://justice.gov.et/en/law/value-added-tax-proclamation-2/" } }
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Ethiopia public holidays 2026
12 days in 2026. Official source: Proclamation No. 1334/2024 to Determine Public Holidays and the Celebration of Public… · last verified 15 Jul 2026
Fixed by law 3 Confirmed 6 Estimated 3
| Date | Holiday | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 Jan 2026 Wed | Ethiopian Christmas (Genna) | Confirmed | Proclamation No. 1334/2024 to Determine… |
| 19 Jan 2026 Mon | Epiphany (Timkat) | Confirmed | Proclamation No. 1334/2024 to Determine… |
| 2 Mar 2026 Mon | Adwa Victory Day | Confirmed | Proclamation No. 1334/2024 to Determine… |
| 20 Mar 2026 Fri | Eid al-Fitr (provisional) | Estimated | Proclamation No. 1334/2024 to Determine… |
| 10 Apr 2026 Fri | Ethiopian Good Friday (Siklet) | Fixed by law | Proclamation No. 1334/2024 to Determine… |
| 12 Apr 2026 Sun | Ethiopian Easter (Fasika) | Fixed by law | Proclamation No. 1334/2024 to Determine… |
| 1 May 2026 Fri | International Labour Day | Fixed by law | Proclamation No. 1334/2024 to Determine… |
| 5 May 2026 Tue | Ethiopian Patriots' Victory Day | Confirmed | Proclamation No. 1334/2024 to Determine… |
| 27 May 2026 Wed | Eid al-Adha (Arefa) (provisional) | Estimated | Proclamation No. 1334/2024 to Determine… |
| 26 Aug 2026 Wed | Prophet's Birthday (Mawlid) (provisional) | Estimated | Proclamation No. 1334/2024 to Determine… |
| 11 Sep 2026 Fri | Ethiopian New Year (Enkutatash) | Confirmed | Proclamation No. 1334/2024 to Determine… |
| 27 Sep 2026 Sun | Finding of the True Cross (Meskel) | Confirmed | Proclamation No. 1334/2024 to Determine… |
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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Withholding tax rates
10–15% across 4 withholding taxes — no single rate · in force from 2025-07-08 · Official source: Federal Income Tax Proclamation No. 979/2016 as amended by Income Tax… · last verified 26 Aug 2026
Rates by payment type
| key | label | rate | applies to | effective from | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| dividends | Withholding tax on dividends to non-residents | 15 | Ethiopian-source dividends derived by a non-resident (and by residents - the amendment sets a single 15% dividend rate); the amendment also introduced a 15% tax on undistributed profits unless reinvested per Ministry of Finance directive | 2025-07-08 | Proclamation 979/2016 as amended by… |
| Raised from 10% by the 2025 amendment. Repatriated profits of a non-resident's permanent establishment are taxed separately at 15% (new Article 64), the dividend-equivalent for branches. | |||||
| interest | Withholding tax on interest to non-residents | 10 | Ethiopian-source interest derived by a non-resident | 2025-07-08 | Proclamation 979/2016 as amended by… |
| Pre-amendment law (old Article 51(2)) charged non-residents 5% on interest from saving deposits at Ethiopian financial institutions and 10% otherwise; whether a deposit concession survives the 2025 amendment is not clearly stated in available sources - the post-amendment PwC… | |||||
| royalties | Withholding tax on royalties to non-residents | 10 | Ethiopian-source royalties derived by a non-resident | 2025-07-08 | Proclamation 979/2016 as amended by… |
| Raised from 5% by the 2025 amendment. | |||||
| technical-management-fees | Withholding tax on management and technical fees to non-residents | 15 | management fees and technical fees for services performed for a resident of Ethiopia or an Ethiopian permanent establishment, paid to a non-resident | 2016-07-08 | Federal Income Tax Proclamation No… |
| The 15% fee rate predates the 2025 amendment (it stood at 15% under Proclamation 979/2016) and post-amendment sources still show 15%; its effective_from is therefore the 979/2016 commencement (8 July 2016), not the 2025 amendment. | |||||
Personal income tax brackets
0–35% across 6 bands · in force from 2025-07-07 · Official source: Ministry of Justice · last verified 17 Jul 2026
| min | max | rate |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | 2000 | 0 |
| 2000 | 4000 | 15 |
| 4000 | 7000 | 20 |
| 7000 | 10000 | 25 |
| 10000 | 14000 | 30 |
| 14000 | — | 35 |
Statutory social-insurance contributions
0–18% across 2 contribution branches · in force from 2022-03-18 · Official source: Private Organization Employees' Pension Proclamation No. 1268/2022, Federal… · last verified 11 Aug 2026
| key | label | rate total | rate employee | rate employer | unit | base | employer matched |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| private_organization_pension | Private Organization Employees' Service Pension Fund / የግል ድርጅት ሠራተኞች ጡረታ (retirement, invalidity, incapacity and survivors' pensions) | 18 | 7 | 11 | percent | "Salary" as defined in article 2(7) of the Proclamation: "monthly salary received by the employees of private organization, for services rendered during regular working hours without the deduction of any amounts in respect of income tax and any other matter". THIS IS BASIC MONTHLY SALARY FOR REGULAR HOURS — it is gross of income tax and of every other deduction, but it is confined to pay for regular working hours, so overtime pay and allowances paid for something other than regular-hours service are outside it. NO CEILING and no floor. | false |
| 18% of basic salary in total, and the employer carries the larger share. Two things most engines get wrong. FIRST, THE BASE IS BASIC SALARY, NOT GROSS PAY: article 2(7) confines it to pay for services rendered during regular working hours, so overtime and non-regular-hours… | |||||||
| employment_injury | Employment injury and occupational disease / የሥራ ላይ ጉዳት — direct employer liability under the Labour Proclamation, NOT a contributory branch | — | 0 | — | percent | Not a percentage of payroll. The employer is directly liable to the injured employee for the compensation and medical costs the Labour Proclamation prescribes; where the employer insures that exposure, the cost is a commercially rated insurance premium, not a statutory contribution. | false |
| SERVED AS A VISIBLE ENTRY BECAUSE THE OBLIGATION IS REAL AND HAS NO RATE. Almost every other country in this dataset funds occupational injury through a payroll percentage — Algeria 1.25%, Tunisia 0.4%–4%, Jordan and the Gulf schemes 1%–3%. Ethiopia does not. There is nothing to… | |||||||
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