Country	Income tax	Top rate	Employee social insurance	VAT	Verification
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia	No income tax	0%	Expats 0%, Saudi nationals 9.75% (annuities 9% + SANED 0.75%), or 10.5% on average in 2026 for those under the new system	15%	Fully verified
🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates	No income tax	0%	Expats 0% (apart from unemployment insurance of 5 or 10 dirhams a month), UAE nationals 5% under the old law or 11% under the new law	5%	Partly verified
🇶🇦 Qatar	No income tax	0%	Expats 0%, Qatari nationals 7%, capped at 100,000 Qatari riyals a month	-	Fully verified
🇰🇼 Kuwait	No income tax	0%	Expats 0%, Kuwaitis 10.5% on the first 1,500 dinars and 8% on the part above that, up to 2,750 dinars	-	Partly verified
🇴🇲 Oman	No income tax	0%	Expats 0%, Omanis 8% (7.5% old age, disability and death + 0.5% job security)	5%	Partly verified
🇧🇭 Bahrain	No income tax	0%	Expats 1% (unemployment insurance), Bahrainis 8% (7% pension + 1% unemployment)	10%	Partly verified
🇯🇴 Jordan	5% to 30% after a personal exemption of 9,000 dinars a year	30%	7.5% (wage cap of 3,733 dinars a month in 2026)	16%	Fully verified
🇮🇶 Iraq	3% to 15% after allowances (2.5 million dinars a year for a single person)	15%	5% social security (private sector)	-	Estimate
🇱🇧 Lebanon	2% to 25% after a family deduction starting at 450 million pounds a year	25%	3% for the sickness and maternity branch (up to 120 million pounds a month)	11%	Partly verified
🇸🇾 Syria	In practice 15% on income above 12,560 pounds a month (the legal schedule runs from 5% to 15%)	15%	7% of the fixed monthly wage	-	Estimate
🇵🇸 Palestine	5% to 15% after a residence exemption of 36,000 shekels a year	15%	No general compulsory social security deduction in the private sector	16%	Fully verified
🇵🇸 Palestine (inside the Green Line)	10% to 47% (plus 3% on income above 721,560 shekels a year), less tax credit points	50%	4.27% up to 7,703 shekels a month and 12.17% above that up to 51,910 shekels (national insurance and health tax)	18%	Fully verified
🇪🇬 Egypt	0% to 27.5%	27.5%	11% of the contribution wage (maximum of 16,700 pounds a month in 2026)	14%	Fully verified
🇸🇩 Sudan	0% to 20%	20%	8% of the monthly wage for Sudanese workers	17%	Estimate
🇾🇪 Yemen	0% to 20%	20%	6% of the wage in the private sector	5%	Partly verified
🇲🇦 Morocco	0% to 37%	37%	4.48% social security (up to 6,000 dirhams a month) + 2.26% compulsory health insurance (AMO) with no cap	20%	Fully verified
🇩🇿 Algeria	0% to 35%	35%	9% of gross pay (CNAS social security) with no cap	19%	Fully verified
🇹🇳 Tunisia	0% to 40% (+ 0.5% social solidarity contribution)	40%	About 9.68% of gross pay (9.18% social security + 0.5% job-loss fund)	19%	Partly verified
🇱🇾 Libya	5% to 10%	10%	3.75% social security + 1% Social Solidarity Fund	-	Estimate
🇲🇷 Mauritania	15% to 40% after an exemption of 6,000 ouguiyas a month	40%	1% social security up to 15,000 ouguiyas a month, plus the CNAM health insurance contribution (rate not confirmed)	16%	Estimate
🇸🇴 Somalia	0% to 18%	18%	No compulsory contribution in the official sources we reviewed	-	Partly verified
🇩🇯 Djibouti	2% to 30%	30%	6% social security (4% retirement and 2% healthcare)	10%	Partly verified
🇰🇲 Comoros	0% to 30%	30%	Not included: we have not confirmed the rate from an official source	10%	Estimate

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