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Une offre chiffrée. Pas un document fiscal et non enregistrée dans vos livres jusqu'à acceptation.
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Value added tax
Invoicing in Burkina Faso
A business registered in Burkina Faso charges VAT at a standard rate of 18%, invoices in XOF, and issues documents under names and numbering rules that are specific to Burkina Faso. DocsOrigin carries all of that as registry data, so choosing Burkina Faso once configures the tax, the document set, the numbering and the layout together.
Invoicing in Burkina Faso is free forever with DocsOrigin: every document type, every export, no card and no trial.
Tax in Burkina Faso
VAT
18%
Reduced and zero rates
0%
How reliable is this figure
Graded medium: this rate is believed current but has not been re-checked against an official Burkina Faso source recently. Verify it before issuing, and override it in your settings if it has moved.
Whatever the grade, your own setting always wins — a rate you enter overrides the registry everywhere, including on documents already dated in the past.
Document types recognised in Burkina Faso
These are the documents DocsOrigin will offer a business registered in Burkina Faso, under the names used there. A type that has no meaning locally is not offered at all.
Facture pro forma
Une demande de paiement. N'ouvre pas droit au client de déduire la taxe.
Facture
Le document fiscal lui-même. Verrouillé une fois émis.
Facture-reçu
Facture et paiement en un seul document, pour quand vous êtes payé sur-le-champ.
Reçu
Confirme l'argent reçu contre une facture.
Avoir
La seule façon légale d'annuler ou de réduire un document déjà émis.
Bon de livraison
Marchandises remises sans frais.
Tax identifier
On a document issued in Burkina Faso the identifier is labelled VAT number. It is printed in the header of every tax document, isolated left-to-right so it reads correctly in any interface language.
No structural check is applied for Burkina Faso: the format is accepted as entered, because a wrong rule that rejects a valid number is worse than no rule.
Numbering
Documents in Burkina Faso are expected to run in an unbroken sequence. DocsOrigin allocates the number at the moment of issue — never earlier — so a draft that is abandoned does not burn a number and leave a gap you have to explain.
Prefix, padding and yearly reset are configurable per document type, and the series is kept separately for each type.
How Burkina Faso writes dates and money
Set the country and these stop being settings you have to think about. The examples below are rendered by the same formatter the documents use.
- Date
- 21/09/2026
- Amount
- 12 345 CFA
- Currency
- XOF
- Minor units
- 0
XOF is written with 0 decimal places, and every amount is stored as a whole number of minor units. ⛔ Money never touches floating point.
A worked example in Burkina Faso
Three lines, priced identically everywhere, run through the real tax engine with the Burkina Faso registry entry applied. This is what the document looks like there.
Devis
Facture pro forma
Facture
Facture-reçu
Reçu
Avoir
Northwind Studio
VAT number 000000000 · Burkina Faso
Facture
N° 2026-0042
| Description | Quantité | Prix unitaire | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Travail de conception | 12 | 45 CFA | 540 CFA |
| Charte graphique | 1 | 380 CFA | 380 CFA |
| Support contractuel | 3 | 60 CFA | 180 CFA |
Total net
1 100 CFA
VAT 18%
198 CFA
Total
1 298 CFA
Invoicing in Burkina Faso — questions
What tax rate do I charge in Burkina Faso?
The standard VAT rate recorded for Burkina Faso is 18%. Reduced rates may apply to particular supplies, and your own setting always overrides ours.
Which document do I issue to a customer in Burkina Faso?
The document set recognised in Burkina Faso is listed above, under the names used locally. For a paid sale the usual document is Facture, and a mistake on an issued document is corrected with a credit note rather than an edit.
Does DocsOrigin cost anything in Burkina Faso?
No. DocsOrigin is free forever for businesses in Burkina Faso as everywhere else: no subscription, no card, no trial, no per-document fee and no export fee. Optional professional services are the only thing that is ever charged for, and they are quoted per project.
What if the rate for Burkina Faso is wrong or changes?
Set your own rate in the business settings and it overrides the registry immediately, for new documents and for any date. Rates are applied by document date, so an old document keeps the rate that applied when it was issued.
Also billing in XOF
The currency is shared, but the tax, the document names and the numbering rules are not. Each of these has its own entry.
Issue your first Burkina Faso document
Choose Burkina Faso once. The tax, the document names, the numbering, the date order and the currency format are configured together, and it costs nothing.
Free forever for businesses Créer votre première factureThis page describes what DocsOrigin does with the registry entry for Burkina Faso. It is not tax advice, and it is not a statement of Burkina Faso law. Confirm your obligations with your accountant or the tax authority. Registry data as of 2026-08.