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Algeria VAT Rates 2026

Algeria (الجزائر (Al-Jazā'ir)) levies Value Added Tax as TVA / الرسم على القيمة المضافة. The standard rate is 19%, applied to most goods and services. Reduced rates of 9% apply to basic foodstuffs, medicines, agricultural inputs, internet services, books.

Algeria 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.

Registration and filing

Access rates via API

The TaxID API returns current VAT and GST rates for 200+ countries and territories. Use the /api/v1/rates/DZ endpoint to get Algeria data programmatically. Responses are cached for 24 hours.

curl https://www.taxid.dev/api/v1/rates/DZ
# No authentication required for rate lookups

# Response:
# { "country_code": "DZ", "tax_type": "vat",
#   "standard_rate": 19, "reduced_rates": [9],
#   "currency": "DZD", "last_updated": "2026-06-12" }

Fetching the rate in code

// Fetch current Algeria VAT rates (no auth required)
const rates = await fetch('https://www.taxid.dev/api/v1/rates/DZ').then(r => r.json());
// → { standard_rate: 19, reduced_rates: [9],
//     currency: 'DZD' }

applyRate(rates.standard_rate);

About Algeria VAT

Algeria raised its TVA to 19% in the 2017 finance law when oil revenues slumped, and the rate has held since. The 9% band notably covers internet access — a digital-inclusion subsidy unusual in the region. Hydrocarbon activities, the heart of the economy, sit largely outside the ordinary VAT regime under sector-specific taxation, and the import-heavy consumer market means much VAT is collected at customs.

VAT in Algeria is administered by the Direction Générale des Impôts (DGI).

Sources: PwC Worldwide Tax Summaries · DGI Algérie (accessed Jun 2026)

Rate history

• 2017Standard rate raised from 17% to 19% and reduced rate from 7% to 9%

Frequently asked questions

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