BT Goods and services tax

Invoicing in Bhutan

In Bhutan the general indirect tax is GST, charged at a standard rate of ⁨5%⁩, with invoices issued in ⁨BTN⁩. DocsOrigin applies that rate, the local document names and the local numbering conventions from the moment you set the business country to Bhutan.

Invoicing in Bhutan is free forever with DocsOrigin: every document type, every export, no card and no trial.

Tax in Bhutan

GST 5%
Reduced and zero rates 0%

How reliable is this figure

Graded high: this rate has been checked against a tax-authority or official source. It is still your responsibility to confirm it before you rely on it.

Last checked against a source: ⁨2026-08⁩.

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 Bhutan

These are the documents DocsOrigin will offer a business registered in Bhutan, under the names used there. A type that has no meaning locally is not offered at all.

Penawaran

Penawaran berharga. Bukan dokumen pajak dan tidak tercatat di buku Anda hingga diterima.

Faktur pro forma

Permintaan pembayaran. Tidak memberi hak kepada klien untuk mengurangkan pajak.

Faktur pajak

Dokumen pajak itu sendiri. Terkunci setelah diterbitkan.

Faktur-kwitansi

Faktur dan pembayaran dalam satu dokumen, untuk ketika Anda dibayar di tempat.

Kwitansi

Mengkonfirmasi uang yang diterima terhadap faktur.

Nota kredit

Satu-satunya cara sah untuk membatalkan atau mengurangi dokumen yang sudah diterbitkan.

Nota pengiriman

Barang diserahkan tanpa biaya.

Tax identifier

On a document issued in Bhutan the identifier is labelled GST 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 Bhutan: the format is accepted as entered, because a wrong rule that rejects a valid number is worse than no rule.

Numbering

Documents in Bhutan 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 Bhutan 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
BTN12,345.67
Currency
BTN
Minor units
2

⁨BTN⁩ is written with ⁨2⁩ decimal places, and every amount is stored as a whole number of minor units. ⛔ Money never touches floating point.

A worked example in Bhutan

Three lines, priced identically everywhere, run through the real tax engine with the Bhutan registry entry applied. This is what the document looks like there.

Penawaran Faktur pro forma Faktur pajak Faktur-kwitansi Kwitansi Nota kredit
Northwind Studio
GST number 000000000 · Bhutan
Faktur pajak
No. 2026-0042
Tagihan untuk Riverbank Coffee
Deskripsi Qty Harga satuan Total
Pekerjaan desain 12 BTN45.00 BTN540.00
Panduan merek 1 BTN380.00 BTN380.00
Dukungan berkelanjutan 3 BTN60.00 BTN180.00
Total bersih BTN1,100.00
GST 5% BTN55.00
Total BTN1,155.00

Invoicing in Bhutan — questions

What tax rate do I charge in Bhutan?

The standard GST rate recorded for Bhutan is ⁨5%⁩. Reduced rates may apply to particular supplies, and your own setting always overrides ours.

Which document do I issue to a customer in Bhutan?

The document set recognised in Bhutan is listed above, under the names used locally. For a paid sale the usual document is Faktur pajak, and a mistake on an issued document is corrected with a credit note rather than an edit.

Does DocsOrigin cost anything in Bhutan?

No. DocsOrigin is free forever for businesses in Bhutan 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 Bhutan 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.

Issue your first Bhutan document

Choose Bhutan 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 Buat faktur pertama Anda

This page describes what DocsOrigin does with the registry entry for Bhutan. It is not tax advice, and it is not a statement of Bhutan law. Confirm your obligations with your accountant or the tax authority. Registry data as of ⁨2026-08⁩.