Ethiopia VAT standard rate
Ethiopia VAT standard rate is 15 percent, in force since 21 Aug 2024. Last checked against the official source on 15 Jul 2026.
Standard value-added tax rate.
| Current value | 15 percent |
|---|---|
| In force from | 2024-08-21 |
| Official source | Value Added Tax Proclamation No. 1341/2024, Article 8(2) — Ministry of Justice (Federal Negarit Gazeta) |
| Last verified | 2026-07-15 |
| Verification | primary — No verification limitation recorded — read from the official source cited. |
| Provenance | source fingerprint |
What this value means
Article 8(2): 'The rate of VAT shall be ... (b) in any other case 15 percent' (zero-rated supplies at 0%). The 15% standard rate is unchanged from the repealed VAT Proclamation No. 285/2002 — Proclamation No. 1341/2024 (published in the Federal Negarit Gazeta 21 Aug 2024, replacing the 2002 law) modernised the base rather than the rate: it extended VAT to cross-border digital / 'remote' services supplied by non-residents to Ethiopian consumers and reworked exemptions/zero-rating, further detailed in Council of Ministers VAT Regulation No. 570/2025. Registration threshold ETB 2m annual turnover. Official gazette text also mirrored at the Ministry of Finance PDF (mofed.gov.et .../vat_proclamation_no_1341-2016_with_annex.pdf), which was intermittently unreachable at verification time.
Earlier values
| From | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2003-01-01 | 15 | Value Added Tax Proclamation No. 285/2002 (same 15% rate… |
Get it programmatically
curl https://afriref.dev/v1/et/vat
# $0.005 per call — x402 on Base (USDC). No key, no signup.
# History: curl https://afriref.dev/v1/et/vat/history?from=2020-01-01
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