Syria take-home pay and salary and wage tax calculator 2026

Calculated with 2026 rules for a single, full-time employee whose salary is their only income.

Salary and wage tax rates in Syria 2026

The legal schedule is monthly, in new pounds (shown here as annual figures): 5% up to 2,500 pounds, 7% up to 4,500, 9% up to 6,500, 11% up to 8,500, 13% up to 11,000, and 15% above that. However, the tax-free minimum has been 12,560 pounds a month since 1/5/2026, which is higher than all the lower bracket limits, so in practice everything above 12,560 pounds of net monthly income is taxed at 15%.

Social insurance rates

Worked example

An employee earning 35,000 new Syrian pounds a month, 420,000 a year:

• The 7% social insurance contribution is deducted from the salary, then the first 12,560 pounds a month is exempt, and anything above that is taxed at 15%.
• The calculator assumes the whole salary is a fixed monthly wage. Non-recurring payments (bonuses, overtime) are taxed at a flat 5% with no tax-free minimum.
• From January to April 2026 the tax-free minimum was 8,370 new pounds (837,000 old pounds); the calculator applies the current minimum to the whole year.
• The employer share of social insurance is not counted in the employer cost, because we have not confirmed it from an official source.

Key tax facts about Syria

Currency

The new Syrian pound since 1 January 2026. Every 100 old pounds equal 1 new pound

Tax-free minimum

12,560 new pounds a month since 1 May 2026, the same as the general minimum wage

Tax rate

The legal table runs from 5% to 15%. In practice, 15% on everything above the tax-free minimum

Legal basis

Income Tax Law No. 24 of 2003 and Legislative Decree No. 30 of 2023

Social insurance

7% paid by the worker on fixed monthly pay, deducted before tax is worked out

How it is collected

The employer deducts the tax from salary every month

Bonuses and one-off payments

A flat 5% with no tax-free amount

New law

The Ministry of Finance announced a draft new income tax law in 2025, and we found nothing confirming it was in force as of October 2026

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Official sources

Every figure in this calculator comes from these sources, last checked on 2 October 2026. The tax situation in Syria is in transition. The Ministry of Finance announced a draft income tax law that would exempt 60 million old pounds a year and charge 6% and 8%, due to apply from the start of 2026, but we found no proof that it had been issued and taken effect by the date of checking. So we applied the last confirmed rules: Law 24 of 2003 as amended by Legislative Decree 30 of 2023, with a tax-free minimum of 12,560 new pounds since 1/5/2026. Converting the bracket limits to new pounds by dividing by 100 is our own assumption based on the currency replacement ratio, and it does not change the result because the tax-free minimum is above the lower bracket limits. The 7% employee rate and its deduction before tax come from a Syrian academic source, not an official text, and we could not confirm the employer share or the insurable wage cap. The official Syrian websites (the General Commission for Taxes and Fees, the central bank and social insurance) were not reachable from where we checked, and the exchange rate comes from a secondary source.

1. Decree No. 67 of 2026 (SANA): general minimum wage raised to 12,560 new pounds a month from 1/5/2026 Official source · checked 2 October 2026
2. Al-Ikhbariya Syria: the Finance Minister's implementing instructions for Decree 67; the minimum wage of 12,560 pounds is also the tax-free minimum Official source · checked 2 October 2026
3. Al-Watan newspaper: text of the implementing instructions for Legislative Decree No. 30 of 2023 (Article 19 on brackets, Article 20 on the tax-free minimum) Official source · checked 2 October 2026
4. SANA: Finance Minister, tax-free minimum of 837,000 old pounds for salaries until the end of 2025, with the new law in preparation Official source · checked 2 October 2026
5. Al-Manara University (Syria): lecture on salary tax with a worked example, the 7% social insurance deduction and how the tax-free minimum is applied to the brackets Secondary source used to cross-check · checked 2 October 2026
6. Syrian Business Gateway (March 2026): Law No. 24 of 2003 and its amendments is still the law in force, and the new law has not taken effect Secondary source used to cross-check · checked 2 October 2026
7. Trading Economics: US dollar at 122 new Syrian pounds (secondary source; the Central Bank of Syria website was not available) Secondary source used to cross-check · checked 2 October 2026

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