Country pack
communityTrinidad and Tobago
Ekwo is free, open source accounting software. Its Trinidad & Tobago pack carries the chart of accounts (Trinidad and Tobago reference chart of accounts, 116 accounts), 2 tax rates in TTD, the periodic return (VAT return (box layout of this pack), 12 boxes), and the financial statements (Statement of financial position, Income statement). Last checked on 2026-10-20 against 4 texts of law and official sources.
- Country code
TT- Currency
TTD- Pack version
0.2.0- Last checked
- 2026-10-20
What the pack carries
- Charts of accountsWhat a company installs, and who each chart is published for.
default(default) — 116 accounts, for companies
- TaxesHow many the pack carries, at which distinct rates, and which treatments it can express.
- 8 taxes at rates of 0, 12.5
domestic,exempt,export,import - Periodic declarationThe form the accounts are read into, the cadences it is filed on, and how many boxes it has.
TT-VAT-RETURN— 12 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 text of Trinidad and Tobago read for this pack obliges a business to issue or accept an electronic invoice: the Value Added Tax Act, s. 36, asks for a tax invoice with the particulars it lists, on paper or otherwise, without naming a platform, a format or a Peppol profile. No Peppol authority for the country 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.
TT-IFRS-SME-SFP— 22 linesTT-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 reviewer4 sources cited- Last checked against the lawThe most recent day somebody opened one of the texts the pack was built from.
- 2026-10-20
- 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.
TT-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
4 sources — the law this pack was read against
- Value Added Tax Act, Chap. 75:06 (Act No. 37 of 1989), with its Schedules 1 to 3A and the Value Added Tax (Books and Records) Regulations; the unofficial version of the Laws of Trinidad and Tobago updated to 31 December 2016 — later amendments, Orders and changes to the Schedules are not applied
Ministry of the Attorney General and Legal Affairs, Republic of Trinidad and Tobago · law · read 2026-10-20
- Value Added Tax (VAT) — the rate of 12.5 %, who must register (gross commercial supplies above TT$600,000 in twelve months, as of 1 January 2023), registration requirements
Inland Revenue Division, Ministry of Finance, Republic of Trinidad and Tobago · guidance · read 2026-10-20
- IFRS for SMEs Accounting Standard
IFRS Foundation / International Accounting Standards Board · standard · read 2026-10-20
- Website of the Inland Revenue Division (the Board of Inland Revenue's administration: forms, notices and the e-Tax services)
Inland Revenue Division, Ministry of Finance, Republic of Trinidad and Tobago · portal · read 2026-10-20
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