Businesses must now pay 25% of their prior year's tax as an advance payment within 30 days of each quarter's end.

Failure to comply with the withholding tax proclamation in Ethiopia may result in penalties, including:

Any person, business, government body, or NGO that pays another person for goods, services, or income is a withholding agent if they are registered for VAT or meet the annual turnover threshold (currently > 500,000 ETB).

Withholding tax is a type of tax that is deducted from an individual's or business's income by the payer and remitted to the tax authority. In Ethiopia, withholding tax is governed by the Withholding Tax Proclamation No. 608/2008 and the Income Tax Proclamation No. 282/2002.