Lesotho - Taxes on goods and services

Taxes on goods and services (current LCU)

The value for Taxes on goods and services (current LCU) in Lesotho was 5,320,719,000 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 37 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 5,320,719,000 in 2019 and a minimum value of 12,993,000 in 1982.

Definition: Taxes on goods and services include general sales and turnover or value added taxes, selective excises on goods, selective taxes on services, taxes on the use of goods or property, taxes on extraction and production of minerals, and profits of fiscal monopolies.

Source: International Monetary Fund, Government Finance Statistics Yearbook and data files.

Year Value
1982 12,993,000
1983 16,979,000
1984 18,220,000
1985 24,700,000
1986 58,179,000
1987 66,831,000
1988 89,430,000
1989 119,480,000
1991 261,331,100
1992 330,846,000
1993 416,769,900
1994 442,993,000
1995 503,438,900
1996 489,975,400
1997 641,755,600
1998 584,476,400
1999 619,988,700
2000 645,976,100
2001 784,850,200
2002 866,606,700
2003 1,032,800,000
2004 1,323,400,000
2005 1,442,000,000
2006 1,972,029,000
2007 2,206,824,000
2008 2,567,876,000
2009 2,645,026,000
2010 2,190,723,000
2011 2,415,719,000
2012 3,608,670,000
2013 3,702,923,000
2014 4,453,846,000
2015 4,602,759,000
2016 4,024,728,000
2017 4,728,777,000
2018 4,962,284,000
2019 5,320,719,000

Taxes on goods and services (% of revenue)

Taxes on goods and services (% of revenue) in Lesotho was 32.33 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 35 years was 33.02 in 1993, while its lowest value was 7.61 in 1984.

Definition: Taxes on goods and services include general sales and turnover or value added taxes, selective excises on goods, selective taxes on services, taxes on the use of goods or property, taxes on extraction and production of minerals, and profits of fiscal monopolies.

Source: International Monetary Fund, Government Finance Statistics Yearbook and data files.

See also:

Year Value
1984 7.61
1986 20.26
1987 18.44
1988 19.40
1989 17.65
1991 30.13
1992 32.70
1993 33.02
1994 29.09
1995 28.00
1996 26.28
1997 29.62
1998 27.64
1999 30.18
2000 26.35
2001 27.50
2002 26.84
2003 28.20
2004 31.29
2005 30.99
2006 29.74
2007 30.29
2008 28.24
2009 28.03
2010 24.04
2011 25.09
2012 27.45
2013 27.90
2014 30.54
2015 30.04
2016 28.64
2017 31.02
2018 30.79
2019 32.33

Taxes on goods and services (% value added of industry and services)

Taxes on goods and services (% value added of industry and services) in Lesotho was 18.77 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 37 years was 21.20 in 2012, while its lowest value was 4.30 in 1982.

Definition: Taxes on goods and services include general sales and turnover or value added taxes, selective excises on goods, selective taxes on services, taxes on the use of goods or property, taxes on extraction and production of minerals, and profits of fiscal monopolies.

Source: International Monetary Fund, Government Finance Statistics Yearbook and data files, and World Bank and OECD value added estimates.

See also:

Year Value
1982 4.30
1983 5.11
1984 4.74
1985 5.32
1986 10.64
1987 10.82
1988 10.97
1989 11.96
1991 16.05
1992 16.86
1993 18.13
1994 16.69
1995 16.48
1996 13.83
1997 16.21
1998 13.34
1999 12.99
2000 12.13
2001 12.80
2002 12.07
2003 13.76
2004 16.26
2005 16.31
2006 19.51
2007 21.18
2008 19.82
2009 20.57
2010 15.70
2011 15.16
2012 21.20
2013 19.32
2014 19.73
2015 17.93
2016 15.42
2017 18.52
2018 17.90
2019 18.77

Classification

Topic: Public Sector Indicators

Sub-Topic: Government finance