Latakia

Salary from a foreign employer or fees from foreign clients

TaxedProgressive on monthly salary above a tax-free amount; reported as 5%–15% (unconfirmed)

Article 66 of Law No 24 of 2003 taxes salary from a private payer when the person is resident in Syria or the pay is for services performed there, so a foreign employer's salary for work done from Syria is within salary tax in law. The tax is normally withheld by the employer. With no Syrian payer, the law expects you to declare the income to your local finance office yourself (Article 74). The last scale this profile could read in an official text, Legislative Decree No 24 of 2020, ran from 4% to 18% of monthly net salary, including the national-defence, school and local surcharges. A 2023 decree reportedly changed it to 5%–15%, but its text could not be loaded. The Ministry of Finance raised the monthly tax-free amount to SYP 837,000 for salaries paid in 2025, and the 2026 amount was not confirmed. Freelancers practising a profession in Syria pay profits tax on that activity (Article 3); fees from foreign clients for work done in Syria appear to fall within it, but the rates were not verified. Social security and tax treaties were not checked. Syria removed two zeros from its currency at the end of 2025, so older pound figures must be divided by 100.

On the nomad visa

Syria has no digital nomad or remote-work visa. Most foreigners need a visa before travel, applied for online through Syria's e-visa system. The tax rules do not depend on the visa: pay for work done in Syria is within salary tax from the first day. The UK FCDO advises against all travel to Syria because of unpredictable security conditions and a very likely threat of terrorist attacks. Financial transactions are restricted, cash withdrawals are limited and cards are of little use. US sanctions on Syria as a country ended on 1 July 2025, the Caesar Act was repealed on 18 December 2025, and Syria's State Sponsor of Terrorism designation was rescinded on 24 August 2026. Sanctions on named people and some export controls remain.

Dividends, interest, gains, rent and pensions from abroad

Not taxed

Syria's tax on investment income reaches foreign sources only in narrow cases. Under Article 83 of Law No 24 of 2003, income from shares and bonds of companies outside Syria is taxed only when it belongs to Syrian nationals, and interest on foreign government bonds is taxed for residents of Syria. The original rate is 7.5% (Article 84), and later amendments were not checked. Pensions are exempt from salary tax (Article 67). Rent from property abroad and gains on foreign shares are outside the profits tax, which covers work carried on in Syria (Article 3). So a foreign national living in Syria pays nothing on foreign dividends, rent, capital gains or pensions, apart from interest on foreign government bonds. Syrian citizens returning home are taxed on foreign company dividends and bond interest. The draft new income tax law would remove tax on bank interest and on dividends, but it has not been passed.

Net wealth and inheritance

No wealth tax

Syria has no general net wealth tax. None appears in the Income Tax Law or in the Ministry of Finance's 2025–2026 reform announcements. This profile could not confirm from an official source whether an inheritance tax applies today or only registration fees on inherited property. Property income is taxed under a separate tax on real estate income, and sales of property under a real estate sales tax. In July 2025 the Ministry's tax-reform committee proposed taxing property sales on the contract price instead of an official market value and ending the tax on residential rents for Syrian landlords. This profile could not confirm that those changes are in force.

Tax resident after

home or ties test

Top income tax rate

15%

When you become tax resident

The Income Tax Law (Law No 24 of 2003) has no day-count test and does not define residence. Salary tax applies to anyone who receives pay from a private payer while resident in Syria, or whose pay is for services performed in Syria (Article 66). Business profits are taxed when they come from work carried on in Syria (Article 3). On a tourist or other short stay, the work test matters more than residence: pay for work you do while in Syria is within the tax from the first day. How long a stay makes someone resident for Article 66 is not set out in the law.

Top income tax rate

Damascus: reportedly 15% on the part of monthly net salary above SYP 1,100,000 in old pounds (SYP 11,000 in new pounds), under Legislative Decree No 30 of 2023. Its text could not be loaded from an official site, so treat this as unconfirmed. Syria has no city or regional income tax, and the 2020 scale already included the national and local surcharges in its rates, so the rate is the same everywhere. The previous official scale (Legislative Decree No 24 of 2020) topped out at 18% above SYP 260,000 a month. The draft new law would tax employment income in only two low bands above a much larger tax-free amount. The Finance Minister described it in April 2026 as SYP 64 million a year in old pounds, including allowances for dependants and living costs, but the law had not been passed by October 2026.