Country pack
communityGuyana
Ekwo is free, open source accounting software. Its Guyana pack carries the chart of accounts (Guyana reference chart of accounts, 117 accounts), 2 tax rates in GYD, the periodic return (VAT return (line numbers of the Authority's Value Added Tax Return), 13 boxes), and the financial statements (Statement of financial position, Income statement). Last checked on 2026-10-18 against 7 texts of law and official sources.
- Country code
GY- Currency
GYD- Pack version
0.2.0- Last checked
- 2026-10-18
What the pack carries
- Charts of accountsWhat a company installs, and who each chart is published for.
default(default) — 117 accounts, for companies
- TaxesHow many the pack carries, at which distinct rates, and which treatments it can express.
- 9 taxes at rates of 0, 14
domestic,exempt,export,import - Periodic declarationThe form the accounts are read into, the cadences it is filed on, and how many boxes it has.
GY-VAT-RETURN— 13 boxes, filed month
- When it is dueA rule of the country, not a date. A pack that cannot state its rule states nothing.
- day 21 of the month after the period
- The file it is deposited asThe brick of packages/formats that writes it, where one exists.
- filed by hand on the administration’s portal
- Electronic invoicingThe profile the country imposes, the day it starts, and the text that imposes it.
- no profile — no obligation in law
No Guyanese text read for this pack obliges a business to issue or accept an electronic invoice: the Value-Added Tax Act 2005, s. 28 asks for a tax invoice without naming a platform, a format or a Peppol profile. The Authority's Optimal service takes the return online, which is a filing channel and not an invoice format. No Peppol authority for Guyana was looked for. `profile`, `party_scheme` and `vat_scheme` are null: there is no domestic profile to name
- Where the tax balance landsThe accounts a filed declaration settles to, by role.
- payable
2100 - receivable
1172
- payable
- Bank statementsThe formats this country’s banks send, and whether anything here reads them.
- no format named
- Payment filesThe formats the country’s banks accept for an outgoing payment.
- no format named
- Financial statementsThe schemes the chart reports on, and the taxonomy their keys are written against.
GY-IFRS-SME-SFP— 22 linesGY-IFRS-SME-IS— 7 lines
- Who has read itA pack is reviewed when a named professional has read it against the law, and never before.
communityno named reviewer7 sources cited- Last checked against the lawThe most recent day somebody opened one of the texts the pack was built from.
- 2026-10-18
- Pack versionWhat this pack calls itself, the day it says its transcription is true, and the languages it publishes.
0.2.0— published 2026-10-23en
Free, and operated
Where the open core stops.
The line is operational, not functional. Everything that keeps working on its own is open core; what needs credentials, a certificate or a channel somebody keeps running is the hosted edition.
GY-VAT-RETURNdeclarationFree, for everComputed from the ledger, frozen box by box, filed by hand on the administration’s portal, and what it owes is carried to 2100. The deposit number and the administration’s own words come back into your own database.
OperatedTransmission: the credentials, the certificate and a channel somebody keeps running. The return stays yours.
What it was built from
7 sources — the law this pack was read against
- Value-Added Tax Act 2005 (Act No. 10 of 2005), Laws of Guyana revised edition, as amended up to (O) 6 of 2021 (Authority's updated copy of 14 September 2021); later orders amending the Schedules are not applied to it
Guyana Revenue Authority · law · read 2026-10-18
- Value-Added Tax Regulations 2005 as amended (Regulation 8 of 2016) — rate of tax (reg. 2), registration threshold (reg. 3), returns (reg. 6), refunds (reg. 7)
Guyana Revenue Authority · regulation · read 2026-10-18
- Zero-rated and exempt supplies — Schedules I and II of the Value-Added Tax Act as revised on 27 March 2026 (amendments to Order 3 of 2026, w.e.f. 16 February 2026)
Guyana Revenue Authority · guidance · read 2026-10-18
- Value Added Tax Return — who files, when and where (the 21st of every month), and what each line of the return, lines 4 to 26, asks for
Guyana Revenue Authority · guidance · read 2026-10-18
- VAT Return Form (the printed form of the return)
Guyana Revenue Authority · guidance · read 2026-10-18
- IFRS for SMEs Accounting Standard
IFRS Foundation / International Accounting Standards Board · standard · read 2026-10-18
- Optimal eServices — the Authority's online service the return is filed through
Guyana Revenue Authority · portal · read 2026-10-18
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