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Paraguay VAT registration threshold

Paraguay VAT registration threshold: no single figure applies. The reason is set out below, cited to the governing instrument. Last checked against the official source on 10 Aug 2026.

The turnover at which VAT (IVA) registration becomes compulsory in Paraguay, with the period the test runs over, the rule for non-established suppliers, and any separate treatment of imported digital services.

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Official sourceLey N° 6380/2019 'De Modernización y Simplificación del Sistema Tributario Nacional' (in force 1 Jan 2020), IVA book: art. 82 (contribuyentes) makes personas físicas taxpayers "por la prestación de servicios personales o profesionales que no estén en relación de dependencia" ('for supplying personal or professional services outside an employment relationship') and enterprises for sales and services generally, with NO minimum-turnover condition; art. 84 (territoriality): digital services "se entenderán que son prestados en territorio nacional, cuando sean utilizados o aprovechados efectivamente en el país" ('are deemed supplied in national territory when effectively used or enjoyed in the country'). Near-thresholds: art. 26 (IRE SIMPLE / RESIMPLE).
Last verified2026-08-10
Verificationsecondary — Corroborated, but the primary instrument was NOT read (usually the publishing host blocks automated access).
The official text portal (bacn.gov.py) returned HTTP 403 to automated retrieval. Art. 82/84 operative wording was verified against a full-text mirror (impuestospy.com) and concordant DNIT portal and law-firm summaries (Ferrere, Rodríguez Silvero, baselegal.com.py for Decreto 3107/2019 and RG 76/2020). The art. 26 ceilings (Gs. 80,000,000 RESIMPLE / Gs. 2,000,000,000 SIMPLE) and the 1 Jan 2021 start date (Decreto 3667/2020) are corroborated across multiple independent sources but were not quoted from the gazette text itself.
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What this value means

REFUSAL: Paraguay has NO VAT registration threshold. IVA (10% general rate, 5% reduced) attaches from the first taxed sale or service, and RUC registration with the DNIT (successor of the SET since Ley 7143/2023) is required before starting activity. Ley 6380 deliberately REMOVED the old Ley 125/91 rule under which independent personal-service providers were IVA taxpayers only above an annual turnover measured in minimum salaries — under art. 82 personal and professional services are taxed from the first guaraní. PERIOD BASIS: none for IVA. The income-tax near-thresholds below run on gross income of the civil year (devengado). NEAR-THRESHOLDS (income-tax regimes under art. 26, not IVA registration thresholds): (a) IRE RESIMPLE — empresas unipersonales with annual gross income up to Gs. 80,000,000 pay a small fixed monthly amount; RESIMPLE members do NOT charge IVA and document sales with boletas de venta, so Gs. 80m is the closest thing Paraguay has to a de facto VAT relief — but it is elective, limited to empresas unipersonales in permitted activities, and administered as an income-tax regime. (b) IRE SIMPLE — annual gross income up to Gs. 2,000,000,000, simplified income-tax liquidation only: IVA applies in full. Crossing the RESIMPLE ceiling forces migration and full IVA invoicing. NON-ESTABLISHED SUPPLIERS: no threshold and no registration mechanism. Non-residents rendering services in or into Paraguay are reached by withholding/perception at the local payer or payment intermediary; they never register for IVA. IMPORTED DIGITAL SERVICES: in force since 1 JAN 2021 (Decreto 3181/2019 reglamenting art. 84; Decreto 3667/2020 postponed the start from mid-2020 to 1 Jan 2021; mechanics in Resolución General SET N° 76/2020). Banks, financieras, casas de cambio, cooperativas and payment processors that intermediate payments abroad act as IVA PERCEPTION agents: 10% IVA is ADDED to the price, alongside a separate non-resident income tax (INR) withholding at 4.5% effective (15% on a deemed 30% margin) SUBTRACTED from the price. Localization uses the art. 84 proxies: device IP / SIM country code, billing address, bank account used, or the card-issuing entity's country. Covered categories include multimedia distribution (streaming, games, music), data processing/storage, and software supply or updates. No turnover de minimis at all. Traps: (1) Do not import the pre-2020 minimum-salary turnover test for personal services — repealed with effect 1 Jan 2020; post-2019 sources repeating it are stale. (2) RESIMPLE's 'no IVA' status is elective and conditional; it is a regime membership fact, not a threshold — headline it as such. (3) Digital-services perception rides the payment rail (card/transfer), so a business payer can suffer perception on a payment that also triggers its own withholding duties — check RG 76/2020 before double-counting. (4) SET URLs (set.gov.py) are dead — the authority is DNIT (dnit.gov.py) since 2023. (5) IVA on services is otherwise territorial (performed in Paraguay); art. 84's use-and-enjoyment extension is specific to digital services.

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