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Sub-Saharan Africa Compared by Government > Time to prepare and pay taxes > Hours

DEFINITION: Time to prepare and pay taxes is the time, in hours per year, it takes to prepare, file, and pay (or withhold) three major types of taxes: the corporate income tax, the value added or sales tax, and labor taxes, including payroll taxes and social security contributions.

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# COUNTRY AMOUNT DATE GRAPH HISTORY
1 Cameroon 1,300 hours 2006
2 Nigeria 1,120 hours 2006
3 Malawi 878 hours 2006
=4 Senegal 696 hours 2006
=4 Mauritania 696 hours 2006
6 Central African Republic 504 hours 2006
7 Kenya 432 hours 2006
8 Sao Tome and Principe 424 hours 2006
9 Guinea 416 hours 2006
10 Sierra Leone 399 hours 2006
11 The Gambia 376 hours 2006
12 Lesotho 352 hours 2006
13 South Africa 350 hours 2006
14 Democratic Republic of the Congo 312 hours 2006
=15 Madagascar 304 hours 2006
=15 Ghana 304 hours 2006
=17 Gabon 272 hours 2006
=17 Angola 272 hours 2006
=19 Burkina Faso 270 hours 2006
=19 Cote d'Ivoire 270 hours 2006
=19 Benin 270 hours 2006
=19 Togo 270 hours 2006
=19 Mali 270 hours 2006
=19 Niger 270 hours 2006
25 Tanzania 248 hours 2006
26 Uganda 237 hours 2006
27 Mozambique 230 hours 2006
=28 Zimbabwe 216 hours 2006
=28 Eritrea 216 hours 2006
=30 Ethiopia 212 hours 2006
=30 Equatorial Guinea 212 hours 2006
32 Guinea-Bissau 208 hours 2006
33 Sudan 180 hours 2006
34 Rwanda 168 hours 2006
35 Mauritius 158 hours 2006
=36 Botswana 140 hours 2006
=36 Burundi 140 hours 2006
38 Zambia 131 hours 2006
39 Chad 122 hours 2006
40 Djibouti 114 hours 2006
41 Swaziland 104 hours 2006
=42 Cape Verde 100 hours 2006
=42 Comoros 100 hours 2006
44 Seychelles 76 hours 2006

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