Country pack
communityNamibia
Ekwo is free, open source accounting software. Its Namibia pack carries the chart of accounts (Namibia reference chart of accounts, 149 accounts), 2 tax rates in NAD, the periodic return (VAT 2 — Return for Value Added Tax, 27 boxes), and the financial statements (Statement of financial position, Statement of profit or loss). Last checked on 2026-10-19 against 8 texts of law and official sources.
- Country code
NA- Currency
NAD- Pack version
0.2.0- Last checked
- 2026-10-19
What the pack carries
- Charts of accountsWhat a company installs, and who each chart is published for.
default(default) — 149 accounts, for companies
- TaxesHow many the pack carries, at which distinct rates, and which treatments it can express.
- 13 taxes at rates of 0, 15
domestic,exempt,export,foreign_services_received,import - Periodic declarationThe form the accounts are read into, the cadences it is filed on, and how many boxes it has.
NA-VAT2— 27 boxes, filed month or bimonth
- When it is dueA rule of the country, not a date. A pack that cannot state its rule states nothing.
- day 25 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 Namibian statute or notice the pack could open obliges a business to exchange a structured electronic invoice: there is no Peppol authority, no published profile and no scheme a party is addressed by, so `profile`, `party_scheme` and `vat_scheme` are null and `obligation` is `none`. What the Value-Added Tax Act, 2000 requires is a tax invoice carrying the particulars of Schedule VI, paragraph 1, on paper or in any form. Trade and tax press report that the Ministry of Finance planned an e-invoicing system connected to NamRA's ITAS, first dated April 2026, then moved to a phased rollout over the 2026/27 to 2028/29 budget period without a fixed date; the pack found no NamRA or Ministry document that sets a date, a profile or a platform, so it records none and the gap is written in the README.
- Where the tax balance landsThe accounts a filed declaration settles to, by role.
- payable
2110 - receivable
1155
- 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.
NA-ICAN-SFP— 32 linesNA-ICAN-IS— 10 lines
- Who has read itA pack is reviewed when a named professional has read it against the law, and never before.
communityno named reviewer8 sources cited- Last checked against the lawThe most recent day somebody opened one of the texts the pack was built from.
- 2026-10-19
- 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.
NA-VAT2declarationFree, for everComputed from the ledger, frozen box by box, filed by hand on the administration’s portal, and what it owes is carried to 2110. 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
8 sources — the law this pack was read against
- Value-Added Tax Act, 2000 (Act No. 10 of 2000), annotated consolidation: ss. 6, 7, 9, 10, 12, 14, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 24 and Schedules III (zero-rated supplies), IV (exempt supplies) and VI (tax invoices, credit and debit notes)
Republic of Namibia, annotated statutes published by the Legal Assistance Centre · law · read 2026-10-19
- Value-Added Tax Amendment Act, 2024 (Act No. 5 of 2024), Government Gazette No. 8443 of 16 September 2024: s. 3 (registration threshold N$1 000 000), s. 4 (cash sales without a tax invoice up to N$1 000), s. 2 (imported services declared within 20 days following the month of import); s. 7 (commences on a date the Minister fixes by notice in the Gazette)
Republic of Namibia, Government Gazette · law · read 2026-10-19
- Return for Value Added Tax, form VAT 2: blocks 5 to 7 (output tax, input tax, amount due or repayable), rows 8 to 12 (VAT declared, outputs) and rows 13 to 19 (VAT claimed, inputs)
Ministry of Finance, Inland Revenue, published by the Namibia Revenue Agency · form · read 2026-10-19
- Value Added Tax brochure: standard rate of 15 %, return due on or before the 25th day of the month following the end of the period, tax invoice particulars, input tax that cannot be claimed (passenger vehicle, entertainment, club subscriptions, private use)
Ministry of Finance, Inland Revenue Department, published on the NamRA ITAS portal · guidance · read 2026-10-19
- Information brochure — general tax information: the due date of each tax, VAT 25th day of the month following the end of the period
Namibia Revenue Agency · guidance · read 2026-10-19
- Integrated Tax Administration System (ITAS) — the NamRA portal where a taxpayer registers, files the VAT return and pays
Namibia Revenue Agency · portal · read 2026-10-19
- ISO 4217 currency code list, list one — NAMIBIA, Namibia Dollar, NAD, 516, two minor units (the South African rand is listed under the same country and is not this pack's currency)
SIX Financial Information, maintenance agency of ISO 4217 · standard · read 2026-10-19
- Namibia — member profile: the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Namibia (ICAN) adopted IFRS Accounting Standards and the IFRS for SMEs Accounting Standard
International Federation of Accountants · guidance · read 2026-10-19
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