Country pack
communityRwanda
Ekwo is free, open source accounting software. Its Rwanda pack carries the chart of accounts (Rwanda reference chart of accounts, 142 accounts), 2 tax rates in RWF, the periodic return (Monthly VAT Declaration Form (RRA-VAT-DF1), 14 boxes), and the financial statements (Statement of financial position, Profit and loss account). Last checked on 2026-09-26 against 8 texts of law and official sources.
- Country code
RW- Currency
RWF- Pack version
0.2.0- Last checked
- 2026-09-26
What the pack carries
- Charts of accountsWhat a company installs, and who each chart is published for.
default(default) — 142 accounts, for companies
- TaxesHow many the pack carries, at which distinct rates, and which treatments it can express.
- 10 taxes at rates of 0, 18
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.
RW-VAT— 14 boxes, filed month or quarter
- When it is dueA rule of the country, not a date. A pack that cannot state its rule states nothing.
- day 15 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 Rwandan statute obliges a business to exchange a structured electronic invoice with another business, or to accept one, in the sense Ekwo's vocabulary gives the word — there is no Rwandan Peppol authority, no published profile and no ISO 6523 scheme a party is addressed by, so `profile`, `party_scheme` and `vat_scheme` are all null and `obligation` is `none`. What Rwanda has instead is the Electronic Invoicing System (EIS), a clearance system built on the Electronic Billing Machine (EBM): Law N° 020/2023 of 31/03/2023 on tax procedures requires every person carrying out a taxable activity, whether registered for VAT or not, to request and use an EIS/EBM device — an ETR, e-invoicing software (OSCU/VSCU), a mobile application or another certified channel — to issue every tax invoice, which is validated and reported to the Rwanda Revenue Authority in real time; a person who fails to comply is liable to an administrative fine. This is a real-time clearance of an invoice already addressed to a Rwandan buyer and not a peer-to-peer exchange of a structured document between two businesses in the sense `einvoicing.profile` describes; the gap is recorded in docs/international.md and in this pack's README, and the socle is not patched to fit it.
- 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.
RW-ICPAR-SFP— 32 linesRW-ICPAR-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.
- 2026-09-26
- 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,fr
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.
RW-VATdeclarationFree, 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
- Law N° 049/2023 of 05/09/2023 establishing value added tax, repealing Law N° 37/2012 of 09/11/2012
Official Gazette of the Republic of Rwanda, n° Special of 14/09/2023 · law · read 2026-09-26
- Law N° 020/2023 of 31/03/2023 on tax procedures, articles on the electronic invoicing system and its administrative fine
Official Gazette of the Republic of Rwanda, n° Special ter of 31/03/2023 · law · read 2026-09-26
- Law N° 007/2021 of 05/02/2021 governing companies, articles 121 to 133 (accounting records, annual accounts, audit)
Official Gazette of the Republic of Rwanda, n° 04 ter of 08/02/2021 · law · read 2026-09-26
- RRA Tax Handbook, 2nd edition, 2025 — Value Added Tax (VAT) chapter
Rwanda Revenue Authority · guidance · read 2026-09-26
- Monthly VAT Declaration Form, form RRA-VAT-DF1
Rwanda Revenue Authority, published on the Rwanda Development Board business procedures portal · form · read 2026-09-26
- e-Tax — where the VAT declaration is filed and paid
Rwanda Revenue Authority · portal · read 2026-09-26
- The Electronic Billing Machine and the Electronic Invoicing System
Rwanda Revenue Authority · portal · read 2026-09-26
- Rwanda — Member Country, on ICPAR's adoption of the IFRS Accounting Standards and the IFRS for SMEs Accounting Standard under Law N° 11/2008 of 06/05/2008 establishing the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Rwanda
International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) · guidance · read 2026-09-26
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