Chad taxes residents on worldwide income and non-residents on Chad-source income only. Chad operates a self-assessment system for corporate tax, with the domestic tax authority conducting post-filing review.
The Chadian tax year is the calendar year.
Chad's headline corporate income tax (CIT) rate is 35%.
The headline personal income tax (PIT) rate is 30%.
The standard VAT/GST (or equivalent consumption tax) rate is 18%.
Registered entities (companies, branches, subsidiaries, limited partnerships with shares, limited liability companies, cooperative societies, public institutions, real estate companies, and other legal entities) conducting economic activities in Chad are liable to corporate tax. Non-resident entities with a permanent establishment in Chad are also taxable, subject to any applicable double tax treaty. Chad is a member of CEMAC (alongside Cameroon, Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and Republic of Congo), CEEAC, CEN-SAD, and the African Union.
A non-Chad-resident entity has a Chad permanent establishment through a fixed place of business or a dependent agent habitually concluding contracts in Chad on the entity's behalf, following the OECD Model Treaty definition as applied under Chad's domestic law and any applicable tax treaty.
No CFC-style attribution provision was found in Chad's General Tax Code. As a CEMAC member state, Chad's Code General des Impots derives from the same shared French colonial-era codification template used across the bloc (Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon) - confirmed directly for Cameroon (CGI Article 19) and the Republic of Congo (near-identical text in their own CGI): a transfer-pricing indirect-profit-transfer rule reallocating mispriced related-party profits back into the domestic tax base, rather than a CFC-style regime attributing a foreign subsidiary's own undistributed profits to a Chadian parent.
No statutory thin capitalization ratio is identified in available sources for Chad specifically.
Chad does not use an elective check-the-box classification system; entity classification generally follows the entity's actual legal characteristics under the French-derived legal tradition shared across the region. Chad does not have a comprehensive ATAD2-style anti-hybrid regime.
No foreign bank account or foreign financial asset reporting regime exists requiring residents to separately disclose foreign accounts; foreign income is reported through the standard annual tax return.
Chad does not provide a broad participation exemption for foreign dividends in the European sense, consistent with the transfer-pricing-focused (rather than exemption-focused) anti-avoidance framework already confirmed elsewhere on this page; relief from double taxation is available primarily through Chad's foreign tax credit system where one exists.
Chad has a foreign tax credit mechanism for foreign tax paid on foreign-source income also taxed domestically, capped at the domestic tax otherwise due on that income - confirm current specific provisions directly given limited public documentation of this area for Chad.
Chad has one tax treaty, with the member states of CEMAC collectively. The CEMAC Convention provides a principle of exclusive taxation in one country to avoid double taxation of CEMAC-origin income. Reflecting this narrow treaty position, Chad applies specific, lower withholding tax rates to CEMAC-area recipients versus non-CEMAC recipients: for example, dividends to CEMAC-resident parent companies (over 25% ownership) are subject to 5% WHT versus 25% WHT on income of non-residents outside the CEMAC area generally. Chad has no bilateral tax treaty network beyond the CEMAC Convention.