Ecuador cuts VAT to 12%

Jun 4, 2017 | Richard Asquith

Ecuador has returned its VAT rate from 14% to 12% on 1 June 2017.

The country temporarily raised it to 14% in 2016 to help raise extra funding in the wake of an earthquake.

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VP Global Indirect Tax

Richard Asquith

VP Global Indirect Tax Richard Asquith

Richard Asquith is VP Global Indirect Tax at Avalara, helping businesses understand their compliance obligations as they grow globally. He can be contacted at: richard.asquith@avalara.com. He is part of the European leadership team which won International Tax Review's 2020 Tax Technology Firm of the Year. Richard trained as an accountant with KPMG in the UK, and went on to work in Hungary, Russia and France with EY.