Oceania & Pacific
Solomon Islands: tax at a glance
A 30% corporate rate and progressive personal tax to 40%, with logging, fisheries and mining forming the export base.
Worldwide (residence-based)
Last verified Some figures indicative
The taxes
- Personal income (top)
- 40%Progressive bands rising to 40% on higher income.
- Corporate income
- 30%
- Capital gains
- Included in ordinary income.
- VAT / Sales tax
- 20%
- Dividends (WHT)
- 30%
- Interest (WHT)
- 15%
- Royalties (WHT)
- 15%
- Social security (employee)
- 5%
- Social security (employer)
- 7.5%
- Wealth tax
- None
- Inheritance / estate
- None
- Property tax
- Property rates apply at provincial level.
- Other
- Non-resident companies are taxed at 35%. A goods tax applies in place of a full VAT.
How the system works
- Tax system
- Worldwide (residence-based)
- Foreign income
- Taxed (worldwide)
- Taxes by citizenship
- No
- Exit tax
- No
- CFC rules
- No
- CRS
- Not participating
The rates below are indicative headline figures (top marginal, standard, and headline rates), reviewed 2026-07. Brackets, surcharges, and state, provincial or cantonal taxes vary. Treat this as a reference map, not advice.