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O ofertă cu preț. Nu e document fiscal și nu se înregistrează în cărțile tale până nu e acceptată.
PA
Value added tax
Invoicing in Panama
A business registered in Panama charges VAT at a standard rate of 7%, invoices in PAB, and issues documents under names and numbering rules that are specific to Panama. DocsOrigin carries all of that as registry data, so choosing Panama once configures the tax, the document set, the numbering and the layout together.
Invoicing in Panama is free forever with DocsOrigin: every document type, every export, no card and no trial.
Tax in Panama
VAT
7%
Reduced and zero rates
10%
15%
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.
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 Panama
These are the documents DocsOrigin will offer a business registered in Panama, under the names used there. A type that has no meaning locally is not offered at all.
Factură proformă
O cerere de plată. Nu îndreptățește clientul să deducă taxa.
Factură fiscală
Documentul fiscal însuși. Blocat după emitere.
Factură-chitanță
Factură și plată într-un singur document, pentru când ești plătit pe loc.
Chitanță
Confirmă banii primiți contra unei facturi.
Notă de credit
Singura cale legală pentru a anula sau reduce un document deja emis.
Aviz de livrare
Bunuri predate fără taxă.
Tax identifier
On a document issued in Panama 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 Panama: the format is accepted as entered, because a wrong rule that rejects a valid number is worse than no rule.
Numbering
Documents in Panama 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 Panama 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
- 09/21/2026
- Amount
- B/.12,345.67
- Currency
- PAB
- Minor units
- 2
PAB 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 Panama
Three lines, priced identically everywhere, run through the real tax engine with the Panama registry entry applied. This is what the document looks like there.
Ofertă
Factură proformă
Factură fiscală
Factură-chitanță
Chitanță
Notă de credit
Northwind Studio
VAT number 000000000 · Panama
Factură fiscală
Nr. 2026-0042
| Descriere | Cantitate | Preț unitar | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lucrări de design | 12 | B/.45.00 | B/.540.00 |
| Ghid de identitate vizuală | 1 | B/.380.00 | B/.380.00 |
| Suport continuu | 3 | B/.60.00 | B/.180.00 |
Total net
B/.1,100.00
VAT 7%
B/.77.00
Total
B/.1,177.00
Invoicing in Panama — questions
What tax rate do I charge in Panama?
The standard VAT rate recorded for Panama is 7%. Reduced rates may apply to particular supplies, and your own setting always overrides ours.
Which document do I issue to a customer in Panama?
The document set recognised in Panama is listed above, under the names used locally. For a paid sale the usual document is Factură fiscală, and a mistake on an issued document is corrected with a credit note rather than an edit.
Does DocsOrigin cost anything in Panama?
No. DocsOrigin is free forever for businesses in Panama 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 Panama 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 Panama document
Choose Panama 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 Creează prima ta facturăThis page describes what DocsOrigin does with the registry entry for Panama. It is not tax advice, and it is not a statement of Panama law. Confirm your obligations with your accountant or the tax authority. Registry data as of 2026-08.