Bangladesh VAT Rates 2026
Bangladesh (বাংলাদেশ (Bangladesh)) levies Value Added Tax as মূসক / VAT (Mushak). The standard rate is 15%, applied to most goods and services. Reduced rates of 10% and 7.5% and 5% apply to selected services including non-AC restaurants and transport.
Bangladesh has no public registry we can query in real time, so a number cannot be confirmed as active from outside. The VAT number checker still checks it against the national format, which catches transcription errors before they reach your accounting system.
Current rates — 2026
| Type | Rate | Applies to |
|---|---|---|
| Standard | 15% | Most goods and services |
| Reduced | 10% | Selected services including non-AC restaurants and transport |
| Reduced | 7.5% | Construction and certain trading activities |
| Reduced | 5% | Local traders and listed reduced-rate supplies |
| Zero-rated | 0% | Exports and deemed exports |
Registration and filing
| Registration threshold | BDT 30,000,000BDT 3 crore annual turnover for mandatory VAT registration; a turnover tax applies below |
| Tax authority | National Board of Revenue (NBR) |
| Filing frequency | Monthly Mushak-9.1 returns, due by the 15th of the following month |
Access rates via API
The TaxID API returns current VAT and GST rates for 200+ countries and territories. Use the /api/v1/rates/BD endpoint to get Bangladesh data programmatically. Responses are cached for 24 hours.
curl https://www.taxid.dev/api/v1/rates/BD
# No authentication required for rate lookups
# Response:
# { "country_code": "BD", "tax_type": "vat",
# "standard_rate": 15, "reduced_rates": [10, 7.5, 5],
# "currency": "BDT", "last_updated": "2026-06-12" }Fetching the rate in code
// Fetch current Bangladesh VAT rates (no auth required)
const rates = await fetch('https://www.taxid.dev/api/v1/rates/BD').then(r => r.json());
// → { standard_rate: 15, reduced_rates: [10, 7.5, 5],
// currency: 'BDT' }
applyRate(rates.standard_rate);About Bangladesh VAT
Bangladesh enacted a clean single-rate 15% VAT law in 2012 but never implemented it as designed — when the law finally took effect in 2019 it carried a ladder of 5%, 7.5% and 10% rates alongside the 15%, plus truncated bases for many sectors, leaving one of South Asia's most fragmented VAT systems. The ready-made garment export industry, the economy's backbone, operates on zero-rating with bonded warehouses. NBR is rolling out electronic fiscal devices in retail to plug chronic leakage.
VAT in Bangladesh is administered by the National Board of Revenue (NBR).
Sources: PwC Worldwide Tax Summaries · National Board of Revenue (accessed Jun 2026)
Rate history
- 2019New VAT and Supplementary Duty Act implemented with multiple rates instead of the planned uniform 15%
Frequently asked questions
What is the VAT rate in Bangladesh in 2026?
15% standard, with reduced rates of 10%, 7.5% and 5% applying to listed sectors and truncated-base supplies.
What is the VAT registration threshold in Bangladesh?
BDT 3 crore (30 million) annual turnover; businesses between BDT 50 lakh and 3 crore pay a 4% turnover tax instead.
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