Lebanon

Ease of Doing Business in

Lebanon

This page summarizes Doing Business 2013 data for Lebanon. 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 Middle East & North Africa
Income Category Upper middle income
Population 4,259,405
GNI Per Capita (US$) 9,110
Doing Business 2013 Rank Doing Business 2012 Rank Change in Rank
115 112 down -3

Doing Business 2013 DTF** (% points) Doing Business 2012 DTF** (% points) Improvement in DTF** (% points)
59.0 59.1 down -0.1
Topic Rankings DB 2013 Rank DB 2012 Rank Change in Rank
Starting a Business 114 111 up -3
Dealing with Construction Permits 172 161 up -11
Getting Electricity 47 46 up -1
Registering Property 108 111 up 3
Getting Credit 104 97 up -7
Protecting Investors 100 98 up -2
Paying Taxes 37 36 up -1
Trading Across Borders 95 94 up -1
Enforcing Contracts 121 121 No change
Resolving Insolvency 131 131 No change

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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 37 DB 2012 Rank 36 Change in Rank down-1
DB 2013 DTF** (% points) 81.4 DB 2012 DTF** (% points) 81.4 Improvement in DTF** (% points) 0.0
Indicator Lebanon Middle East & North Africa 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)
19 19 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)
180 184 176

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

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Profit tax (%)
6.1 11.9 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 (%)
24.1 16.5 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 (%)
0.0 3.9 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)
30.2 32.3 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
Social security contributions 12 100 22% gross salaries 24.1
Corporate income tax 1 40 15% taxable profit 5.6
Capital gains tax 0 10% capital gains 0.5
Tax on interest 0 5% interest income 0.1 included in other taxes
Value added tax (VAT) 4 40 10% value added 0 not included
Vehicle tax 1 various rates 0 small amount
Stamp duty 1 0% contract value 0 small amount
Totals: 19 180 30.2

** 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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