Peru

Ease of Doing Business in

Peru

This page summarizes Doing Business 2013 data for Peru. 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 29,399,817
GNI Per Capita (US$) 5,500
Doing Business 2013 Rank Doing Business 2012 Rank Change in Rank
43 43 0

Doing Business 2013 DTF** (% points) Doing Business 2012 DTF** (% points) Improvement in DTF** (% points)
70.8 69.5 down 1.3
Topic Rankings DB 2013 Rank DB 2012 Rank Change in Rank
Starting a Business 60 53 up -7
Dealing with Construction Permits 86 104 up 18
Getting Electricity 77 78 up 1
Registering Property 19 21 up 2
Getting Credit 23 23 No change
Protecting Investors 13 17 up 4
Paying Taxes 85 87 up 2
Trading Across Borders 60 58 up -2
Enforcing Contracts 115 115 No change
Resolving Insolvency 106 106 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 85 DB 2012 Rank 87 Change in Rank up2
DB 2013 DTF** (% points) 75.2 DB 2012 DTF** (% points) 74.3 Improvement in DTF** (% points) up0.9
Indicator Peru 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)
9 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)
293 367 176

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

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Profit tax (%)
26.7 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 (%)
11.0 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 (%)
2.8 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)
40.5 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 39 30% taxable profit 26.7
Social security contributions 1 online filing 144 9% gross salaries 10.2
Net Assets Tax (ITAN) 0 paid jointly 0% net assets 1.2
Real estate tax 1 0.2%, 0.6% & 1% real estate value 1
Industrial corporations contribution 1 online filing 1% gross salaries 0.8
Fuel tax 1 2.11 sol per liter fuel consumption 0.5
Vehicles tax 1 1% vehicle value 0.1
Value added tax (VAT) 1 online filing 110 18% value added 0 not included
Financial transactions tax 1 0% transaction value 0
Arbitrios (public services contributions) 1 various rates 0 small amount
Totals: 9 293 40.5

** 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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