Global Daily Tax News, Liberia To Begin Registering Taxpayers For New VAT, (Jun 22, 2026)

Liberia's Revenue Authority will begin registering taxpayers for value-added tax under the nation's new regime starting from July 1.

The nation is set to start levying VAT from January 1, 2027, in place of the current GST regime.

The headline rate under VAT is expected to be 18 percent. Earlier, from May 1, 2026, the rate of GST was raised to 13 percent, from 12 percent, for both the tax on goods and the tax on services. The rate on telecommunications services remains 15 percent, and the rate on exported goods remains zero percent.