Guatemala Withholding tax rates
Guatemala Withholding tax rates: no single figure applies. The 6 withholding taxes held run from 5% to 25%, cited to Decreto 10-2012, Ley de Actualización Tributaria, Libro I, Título V (Rentas de no residentes), art. 104 'Tipos impositivos': 'Los tipos impositivos aplicables a los pagos o acreditación de las rentas gravadas por este título son los siguientes: 1. El tipo impositivo del cinco por ciento (5%)... 2. El tipo impositivo del diez por ciento (10%)... 3. El tipo impositivo del quince por ciento (15%)... 4. El tipo impositivo del veinticinco por ciento (25%) que se aplica a: Otras rentas gravadas no especificadas en los numerales anteriores.' (The tax rates applicable to payments or crediting of income taxed under this title are: 5%, 10%, 15%, and 25% for other unspecified taxed income.) Art. 105 'Obligación de retener': payers keeping full accounting 'deben retener el impuesto con carácter definitivo' (must withhold the tax as a final tax)., in force since 1 Jan 2013. Last checked on 10 Aug 2026 against corroborating sources; the primary instrument itself was not read.
Official source: Decreto 10-2012, Ley de Actualización Tributaria, Libro I, Título V (Rentas de no residentes), art. 104 secondary · Last checked 2026-08-10 · source fingerprint
The final withholding taxes Guatemala levies on payments to non-residents without a permanent establishment - dividends, interest, royalties, fees, technical advisory and other heads - each at its domestic statutory rate under Decreto 10-2012 (Ley de Actualización Tributaria), arts. 103-105, before any double-tax agreement relief. Administered by SAT.
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THERE IS NO SINGLE WITHHOLDING TAX RATE, WHICH IS WHY value IS NULL. Guatemala taxes non-residents without a permanent establishment under a four-tier schedule (5%, 10%, 15%, 25%) plus a 3% carve-out, each tier covering a list of payment types. A caller wanting a number must name which payment type; read withholding_rates rather than expecting a headline figure. ALL RATES ARE DOMESTIC STATUTORY RATES, BEFORE TREATY RELIEF. A double-tax agreement can reduce any of them, and whether relief is available depends on the recipient's residence, beneficial ownership and the treaty's own conditions. We do NOT serve treaty rates: they are bilateral, run to thousands of country pairs, and applying one is a legal determination rather than a lookup. (Guatemala has in any case very few income-tax treaties in force.) Domestic exemptions also exist - notably interest on loans from foreign banking and financial institutions duly authorised and regulated in their home country, and from multilateral institutions, is exempt (art. 104.2.a, second paragraph). The withholding is a FINAL tax ('con carácter definitivo', art. 105); if the payer fails to withhold, the non-resident must self-assess within 10 days (art. 106). Libro I of Decreto 10-2012 took effect 1 January 2013; the text quoted is the consolidated text as amended (including Decreto 19-2013), and per-amendment commencement dates for individual heads are not asserted.
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