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Taxes

If you are wanting to do business in Ivory Coast, you have to know about taxation for a LLC (SARL) which is the most common company type in Ivory Coast.

Ivory Coast taxes corporates worldwide income, except for profits derived from business conducted through a PE outside Côte d’Ivoire. The established percentage for income earned abroad, from our research, and this is not personal tax advice, is 25%. CI doesn't have known exemptions to bring in foreign earned profits earned abroad. The effective rate of taxation on a LLC (SARL) entity is 25%. This ranks Ivory Coast as 98th overall with regards to corporate tax rate worldwide.

The value added tax (VAT) rate in Ivory Coast is 18.00%, which ranks Ivory Coast as 98th overall with regards to value added tax rate worldwide.

Thin capitalisation laws are enacted. This refers to any type of laws on given company with respect to debt-to-asset ratios. Dividends are brought into taxable income at 50% of the net amount earned by the company (after 15% WHT). Dividends are a distribution of a portion of an earnings of the legal entity, decided by the board, to shareholders. Dividends can be issued as cash payments, shares of stock, or other property. Capital gains are normally taxed at full corporate rates. A capital gains tax is levied on the profits that a corporation or natural person realizes when he or she sells sells a capital asset for a price that is higher than the purchase price.

The interest witholding rate is estimated at 18%. This means that the taxman expects companies to withold 18% of offshore interest payments. The dividends witholding rate is 15%. This should be interpreted usually that the taxman expects LLC (SARL)'s to automatically withhold 15% of payments abroad for dividend payments. The royalties witholding rate 20% This means that the tax authorities expects relevant legal entities to withold 20% of money remitted abroad on royalty payments.
There is no known tax on wealth in Ivory Coast. There are no known inheritance taxes in Ivory Coast. We are not aware of any well know credits for innovation spend that include breaks on taxation in CI.

The above is not tax or legal advice for your individual personal tax obligations. Incorporations.io can to refer you to a tax advisorin Ivory Coast who can get you the proper advice and help you need. Contact us today. Click the free consultation button above.

Country details

Ivory Coast
XOF
Yamoussoukro
Africa
fr-CI
21,058,798

Tax treaties

Country Type Date Signed
Morocco DTC  2006-07-20
United Kingdom DTC  1985-06-20
France DTC  1966-04-06
Germany DTC  1979-07-03
Portugal DTC  2015-03-17
Norway DTC  1978-02-15
Senegal DTC  2008-09-26
Switzerland DTC  1987-11-23
Italy DTC  1982-07-30
Tunisia DTC  1999-05-14
Canada DTC  1983-06-16
Belgium DTC  1977-11-25

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