Egypt
ERP and e-invoicing software for Egypt — ETA compliant
E-invoicing with the Egyptian Tax Authority is mandatory, and since January 2026 the registration threshold has dropped to EGP 250,000. Clear every invoice in real time, in Arabic, from one system.
Compliance summary
Mandatory now- Tax authority
- Egyptian Tax Authority (ETA)
- E-invoicing
- Mandatory — real-time clearance, B2B and B2G; e-receipts phasing for B2C
- VAT rate
- 14%
- Currency
- EGP
Last reviewed . Rates and deadlines change — confirm the current position with the authority above before you act on it.
What your invoice must carry
What the ETA validates before your invoice is legal
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Real-time clearance and UUID
Every invoice is submitted to the ETA platform, validated, and returned with a UUID before it is legally valid. Printing first and reporting later is the wrong shape for Egypt.
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GS1 or EGS coding on every line
Each line needs an item type, item code and ETA unit code. Generic systems have no field for this and fail validation at submission.
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Certified e-seal signature
Invoices are signed with a government-certified certificate held on an HSM or USB token, with the credential lifecycle managed as an operational task rather than a surprise.
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Withholding at source on supplier payments
Domestic withholding on payments above EGP 300 — 1% supplies, 3% services, 5% commissions — deducted at payment and tracked per supplier as a credit against corporate tax.
The threshold moved, and it caught a lot of businesses
The VAT and e-invoicing registration threshold fell from EGP 500,000 to EGP 250,000 with effect from January 2026, and newly in-scope taxpayers were required to register by the end of March 2026. A large number of Egyptian businesses became obliged to issue cleared electronic invoices without previously having needed any of the machinery to do it.
If that is you, the question is not whether to move but how quickly you can issue a compliant invoice. The parts that usually take longest — the clearance round trip, item coding, the signature credential and what happens when the platform is unreachable — are already built here and running in production in another clearance market.
B2C e-receipts are a second system, not the same one
The e-receipt regime for consumer sales runs on its own phased calendar and its own reporting window, separate from the real-time clearance that applies to business invoices. A retailer with both needs each path to behave correctly, and a point of sale must never make a queue of customers wait on a network call.
Sales continue offline against local stock and price data, queue, and report when the connection returns — the same behaviour that keeps tills running under the Saudi regime.
Arabic that survives the printer
Invoices are issued in Arabic and in Egyptian pounds. Plenty of systems translate their menus and then break the script on a printed invoice or a thermal receipt — disconnected letters, reversed text, missing glyphs in the PDF font.
Arabic here is bidirectional throughout: screens, printed invoices, thermal receipts and exports. Ask any vendor for a printed invoice with an Arabic customer name and a discount line before you sign anything.
Common questions
Is e-invoicing mandatory in Egypt?
Yes. Business-to-business and business-to-government invoices are submitted to the Egyptian Tax Authority platform, validated, and returned with a UUID before they are legally valid. Printing first and reporting later is the wrong shape for Egypt. A separate e-receipt regime for consumer sales is being phased in alongside it.
What is the Egyptian e-invoicing registration threshold?
The VAT and e-invoicing registration threshold fell from EGP 500,000 to EGP 250,000 with effect from January 2026, and newly in-scope taxpayers were required to register by the end of March 2026. That brought a large number of Egyptian businesses into scope without their previously needing any of the machinery to issue a cleared invoice.
What does the ETA validate before an invoice is legal?
The invoice is submitted, validated and returned with a UUID. Each line needs an item type, item code and ETA unit code under GS1 or EGS coding, and the document is signed with a government-certified certificate held on an HSM or USB token. Generic systems that have no field for the item coding fail validation at submission.
Are e-receipts the same as e-invoices in Egypt?
No. The e-receipt regime for consumer sales runs on its own phased calendar and its own reporting window, separate from the real-time clearance that applies to business invoices. A retailer with both needs each path to behave correctly, and a point of sale must never make a queue of customers wait on a network call.
How does Egyptian withholding at source work?
Domestic withholding applies to payments above EGP 300 — 1% on supplies, 3% on services and 5% on commissions — deducted at the moment of payment and tracked per supplier as a credit against corporate tax. Reconstructing it at year end from exports is how reconciliations start disagreeing.
Rates, regimes and deadlines in this summary change, and many countries are actively legislating on e-invoicing. This is general information, not tax or legal advice — confirm the current position with the authority named above or with your tax adviser before you rely on it.
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