Ecuador

Ease of Doing Business in

Ecuador

This page summarizes Doing Business 2013 data for Ecuador. The first table lists the overall "Ease of Doing Business" rank (out of 185 economies) and the rankings by each topic. It also lists the economy's distance to frontier (DTF)** measure. The rest of the tables summarize the key indicators for each topic and benchmark against regional and high-income economy (OECD) averages.

Economy Overview

Region Latin America & Caribbean
Income Category Upper middle income
Population 14,666,055
GNI Per Capita (US$) 4,140
Doing Business 2013 Rank Doing Business 2012 Rank Change in Rank
139 134 down -5

Doing Business 2013 DTF** (% points) Doing Business 2012 DTF** (% points) Improvement in DTF** (% points)
55.1 55.4 down -0.3
Topic Rankings DB 2013 Rank DB 2012 Rank Change in Rank
Starting a Business 169 165 up -4
Dealing with Construction Permits 104 96 up -8
Getting Electricity 146 137 up -9
Registering Property 101 75 up -26
Getting Credit 83 80 up -3
Protecting Investors 139 136 up -3
Paying Taxes 84 90 up 6
Trading Across Borders 128 126 up -2
Enforcing Contracts 99 99 No change
Resolving Insolvency 137 142 up 5

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Paying Taxes

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This data shows the tax that a medium-size company must pay or withhold in a given year, as well as measures of the administrative burden in paying taxes. These measures include the number of payments an entrepreneur must make; the number of hours spent preparing, filing, and paying; and the percentage of their profits they must pay in taxes.

DB 2013 Rank 84 DB 2012 Rank 90 Change in Rank up6
DB 2013 DTF** (% points) 61.9 DB 2012 DTF** (% points) 61.5 Improvement in DTF** (% points) up0.4
Indicator Ecuador Latin America & Caribbean OECD

The total number of tax payments per year. The indicator reflects the total number of taxes and contributions paid, the method of payment, the frequency of payment and the number of agencies involved for a standardized case during the second year of operation.

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Payments (number per year)
8 30 12

The time it takes to prepare, file and pay (or withhold) the corporate income tax, the value added tax and social security contributions (in hours per year).

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Time (hours per year)
654 367 176

The amount of taxes on profits paid by the business as a percentage of commercial profits.

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Profit tax (%)
17.7 21.5 15.2

The amount of taxes and mandatory contributions on labor paid by the business as a percentage of commercial profits.

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Labor tax and contributions (%)
13.7 14.4 23.8

The amount of taxes and mandatory contributions paid by the business as a percentage of commercial profit that are not already included in the categories of profit or labor taxes.

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Other taxes (%)
3.2 11.3 3.7

The total tax rate measures the amount of taxes and mandatory contributions payable by the business in the second year of operation, expressed as a share of commercial profits.

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Total tax rate (% profit)
34.6 47.2 42.7
Tax or mandatory contribution Payments (number) Notes on Payments Time (hours) Statutory tax rate Tax base Total tax rate (% profit) Notes on TTR
Corporate income tax 1 online filing 108 24% taxable profit 17.2
Employer paid - Social security contributions 1 online filing 306 12% gross salaries 13.7
Patent tax 1 fixed fee 2.1
Capital gains tax 1 10% capital gains 0.5
Contribution to superintendence 1 0%-0.85% total assets 0.5
Municipal assets tax 1 0% total assets 0.4
Vehicle tax 1 3% vehicle value 0.2
Value added tax (VAT) 1 online filing 240 12% value added 0 not included
Totals: 8 654 34.6

** The distance to frontier (DTF) measure shows the distance of each economy to the "frontier," which represents the highest performance observed on each of the indicators across all economies included in Doing Business since each indicator was included in Doing Business. An economy’s distance to frontier is indicated on a scale from 0 to 100, where 0 represents the lowest performance and 100 the frontier. Read more...

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