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African Tax Observatory · Country brief · SudanData pulled 14 October 2026 · taxintellilyticsstories.com/africa/countries/SDN

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Gazetteer · Eastern Africa · Low income

Sudan

Collected 2.8% of GDP in tax in 2021, 40 of 40 reporting members.

2.8%

Tax, % of GDP, 2021

n/a

Points since 2021

n/a

Tax buoyancy

needs four years

$132

Tax per person

PPP dollars

Plate I·Over time

Fifteen years, against the continent

Over time

Sudan against the continent

0.0%5.0%10.0%15.0%20.0%10111213141516171819202122232425
SudanEastern Africa medianATAF median and middle half
The shaded band is the middle half of ATAF members each year (25th to 75th percentile); the dashed line is the median of Eastern Africa. The members reporting change from year to year, so the band can move because the set of countries changed; the CSV gives the count for each year.
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YearSudanEastern Africa medianATAF medianATAF 25th percentileATAF 75th percentileMembers reporting
201011.5514.3410.6716.4326
201112.5314.8410.9916.6233
201213.0815.0711.4516.7533
201313.6913.8311.2316.8932
201414.7014.2611.8717.1332
201515.1515.0812.3318.5533
201615.6114.3812.4017.4333
201715.2514.7511.5016.9535
201815.6214.1810.8616.1036
201915.1213.5711.5117.2338
202014.2813.2710.8516.0738
20212.8311.9412.7210.4416.0640
202213.6914.1811.3418.1639
202313.4114.4311.3018.8237
202414.2814.3012.1718.0538
202513.6813.7412.1820.5334

Plate II·Peers, 2021

Each tax beside the medians

Against its peers, 2021

Each tax as a share of GDP, beside the medians

0%2%4%6%8%10%12%14%Tax-to-GDPDomestic taxesCustoms taxesVATPITCIT
The line joins Sudan (orange) to the ATAF median (grey); the blue tick is the Eastern Africa median. All three are for 2021.
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MeasureSudanEastern Africa medianATAF median
Tax-to-GDP2.8311.9412.72
Domestic taxes1.797.298.28
Customs taxes1.044.654.36
VAT1.214.733.90
PIT0.032.101.91
CIT1.381.482.05

Plate III·Tax heads

How Sudan's tax is made up

Tax heads

What each tax brings in, as a share of GDP

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Domestic VATPersonal income taxCorporate income taxWithholding taxOther domestic taxesVAT on imports
Each bar stacks the tax heads ATAF publishes for that year. Where the heads do not add up to total tax revenue, the gap is drawn in light grey and labelled, never spread across the heads. A head missing from a year was not reported for that year.
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YearTax headRevenue (PPP $)% of GDP
2021Domestic VAT4030282630.18
2021Personal income tax759342590.03
2021Corporate income tax30925812821.38
2021Withholding tax388507460.02
2021Other domestic taxes3137209470.14
2021VAT on imports23202206401.04

The mix in 2021

Every shilling, franc or rand of tax, by head

Corporate income tax48.8%VAT on imports36.6%Domestic VAT6.4%Other domestic taxes5.0%Not attributed to a head1.4%Personal income tax1.2%
Rectangle areas are proportional to revenue in 2021 (US dollars at purchasing-power parity). Total tax revenue: $6.3bn.
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Tax headRevenue (PPP $)Share of tax revenue
Domestic VAT4030282630.06
Personal income tax759342590.01
Corporate income tax30925812820.49
Withholding tax388507460.01
Other domestic taxes3137209470.05
VAT on imports23202206400.37
Not attributed to a head906001720.01

Every published number

Sudan in the ATAF Databank

All 23 freely available indicators, exactly as ATAF publishes them. A blank cell means ATAF has no figure for that year; nothing is filled in.

Sudan: ATAF Databank indicators by year
Indicator2010201120122013201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
Nominal GDP (PPP)$224.2bn
Real GDP16,093,410.0m
Final Consumption (PPP)
Total Tax Revenues (PPP)$3.0bn$6.3bn$5.0bn
Total Number Of Registered Taxpayers237k336k
Non-Tax-Revenues (PPP)
Domestic Tax Revenues (PPP)$3.0bn$4.0bn$3.5bn
Customs Tax Revenues (PPP)$2.3bn$1.5bn
Revenue From Agriculture, Forest & Fishing (PPP)
Revenue From Mining & Quarrying (PPP)
Revenue From Secondary Sector (PPP)$815.5m
Revenue From Tertiary Sector (PPP)$1.1bn
Domestic VAT Revenues (PPP)$2.0bn$403.0m$1.6bn
VAT Refunded (PPP)
PIT Revenues (PPP)$263.2m$75.9m$81.3m
CIT Revenues (PPP)$660.9m$3.1bn$1.6bn
Withholding Tax Revenues (PPP)$38.9m
Presumptive Tax Revenues (PPP)
Other Domestic Tax Revenues (PPP)$313.7m
VAT On Import Revenues (PPP)$2.3bn$1.5bn
Import Duty Revenues (PPP)
Excises on Imports Revenues (PPP)
Other Customs Tax Revenues (PPP)

Values are rounded for display; the CSV has them exactly as published. Revenue and GDP are US dollars at purchasing-power parity.

Data-quality checks

What the automatic checks found

No check was tripped for Sudan.

Source: ATAF Databank, the African Tax Administration Forum; World Bank World Development Indicators. Tax and GDP are in US dollars at purchasing-power parity, so their ratio equals the ratio in local currency. Cite as: Kaijamahe, W. H. (2026). Sudan. In African Tax Observatory (Edition 1, October 2026) [Data set and atlas]. TaxIntellilytics Stories. https://www.taxintellilyticsstories.com/africa/countries/SDN Every figure and its method: taxintellilyticsstories.com/africa/methods

Cite this sheet

Sudan, in Edition 1

Kaijamahe, W. H. (2026). Sudan. In African Tax Observatory (Edition 1, October 2026) [Data set and atlas]. TaxIntellilytics Stories. https://www.taxintellilyticsstories.com/africa/countries/SDN

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