LinkedIn Premium VAT and GST by Country — LinkedIn’s Own Published Rates
LinkedIn advertises its prices before tax and publishes the tax treatment somewhere else entirely. This page puts the two together: every country LinkedIn names on its own tax page, the rate it states, and the condition attached — read on 28 August 2026. No conversions, no estimates, and nothing here is ours. If you would rather skip the arithmetic entirely, Searcora’s activation fee is a single USD figure with no tax added on top — ask us on WhatsApp what your plan would cost from $25.
LinkedIn publishes its prices without tax — so the figure you pay is never the figure you read
LinkedIn’s own plan pages carry a footnote saying prices “may exclude Value-Added Tax (VAT), Goods & Services Tax (GST), and/or promotional discounts”. What that footnote does not tell you is how much, or whether it applies to you at all. LinkedIn does publish that, on a separate tax page — and this is that page’s content, laid out in one place.
Two things decide what is added to your bill: which LinkedIn entity sells to you, and whether you supply a tax ID. Purchases in EMEA and Latin America are billed by LinkedIn Ireland. Purchases across most of Asia-Pacific are billed by LinkedIn Singapore. India is handled separately. The entity is not a formality — it is why an Australian buyer is charged GST whether or not they have an ABN, while a Thai buyer with a valid tax ID is not charged at all.
The recurring rule is the remote-seller rule. In a large share of countries LinkedIn states that, as a remote seller, it is required to apply VAT or GST unless the customer provides a valid local VAT or GST ID. If you are buying as a registered business, entering that ID is frequently the difference between paying the tax and not paying it. In the tables below that case is marked “unless a valid local VAT ID is supplied”.
Everything on this page is LinkedIn’s own published position, read from its tax page on 28 August 2026. It is not our estimate, and we have converted nothing into local currency. Rates change and countries get added; the date is stated so you can tell how fresh this is, which is the courtesy most pages quoting a single figure do not extend.
Five things the full list shows that a single country’s figure cannot
These are our own calculations over the table below. LinkedIn publishes the rates; the arithmetic and the counts here are ours, and anyone can reproduce them from the same tables.
1. The same subscription carries a five-fold difference in tax depending on where you buy it. The rates LinkedIn lists run from 5% at the bottom — the United Arab Emirates, Oman and Taiwan — to 25% at the top, in Norway. On Premium Business at $69.99 a month that is the difference between roughly $3.50 and $17.50 a month in tax alone, before any difference in the list price itself.
2. In nearly half the listed countries, a business can remove the tax entirely. 24 of the 52 carry LinkedIn’s remote-seller condition: it must apply VAT or GST unless the customer supplies a valid local VAT or GST ID. For a company buying in a 20% country, entering that ID is worth about $14 a month, or $168 a year, on every Premium Business seat. This is the single most actionable line in the whole table, and it is the one most pricing articles omit.
3. In 13 countries it cannot be removed at all. Ireland, Singapore, Switzerland, South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, Serbia, Mexico, Laos, Malaysia, Australia and Indonesia are charged regardless of buyer type. Australia and Indonesia are the ones that surprise people, and for structural reasons: LinkedIn Singapore has a fixed GST establishment in Australia, and is an appointed PMSE collector in Indonesia.
4. The middle of the distribution is higher than most buyers assume. The median listed rate is 15% and the mean is 14.5%. Eleven of the 52 countries sit at 20% or above; only seventeen sit at 10% or below. A pre-tax price quoted without that context understates the real cost for most of the world.
5. Which entity bills you decides the rules, not which continent you are on. Purchases in EMEA and Latin America run through LinkedIn Ireland; most of Asia-Pacific runs through LinkedIn Singapore; India is handled on its own terms. That split is why two neighbouring countries can be treated differently, and why “the EU rate” is not a thing that exists.
Method, scope and limits
Source. Every rate and condition on this page was read directly from LinkedIn’s own country tax help article on 28 August 2026. Nothing was taken from a third-party article, and nothing was carried over from an older version of this page. The USD list prices used in the worked examples were read from LinkedIn’s own plan pages on 21 August 2026.
What we recorded. For each country: the rate LinkedIn states, and the condition it attaches — whether the tax applies to all customers, or only to those who do not supply a valid local VAT or GST ID. Where LinkedIn distinguishes consumer from business treatment, as it does for Japan and Russia, that distinction is preserved rather than flattened.
What we did not do. No rate was converted into a local currency. No country was added from another source to make the list look more complete. Where LinkedIn does not list a country — Canada and the United States among them — that is recorded as an absence rather than filled in by inference. We do not publish an estimated checkout total for any market, because LinkedIn sets list prices per market and runs offers per account, so any total we printed would be a guess wearing a decimal point.
The calculations. The counts and ranges in the section above were computed over the 52 rows in the tables below. The worked examples apply the stated rate to LinkedIn’s published USD list price and nothing else; they exclude promotional pricing, annual-billing discounts and app-store tier differences, each of which moves the real figure.
Update cadence and how to check us. This page is reviewed when LinkedIn revises its tax article, and the read date above changes when it does. LinkedIn adds countries and revises rates without announcement, so a rate quoted anywhere without a date — including here, if the date above is old by the time you read it — should be treated as unverified. The primary source is public: open LinkedIn’s tax help article and compare.
Corrections. If a row here does not match what LinkedIn currently publishes, we would rather know than be cited incorrectly. Tell us at contact.amirjutt@gmail.com and we will check it against the source and update the read date.
Citing or reusing this table
You are welcome to quote the figures, reproduce rows, or use the calculations in the findings section, in your own writing or research. We ask only that you name the underlying source and link back so your readers can check the date, since a tax rate without a date is not much use to anyone.
Suggested attribution: “LinkedIn Premium VAT and GST by country, compiled by Searcora from LinkedIn’s own tax documentation, read 28 August 2026 — searcora.com/linkedin-premium-tax-by-country”.
If you are writing about LinkedIn pricing and need a figure checked, or want to know whether something has changed since our last read, email us — we would rather answer than see a stale number circulate.
EMEA and Latin America: the rates LinkedIn Ireland applies
These are the countries LinkedIn names for purchases billed through its Irish entity, with the rate and the condition it states for each.
| Country | Rate LinkedIn states | Who it is charged to |
|---|---|---|
| Ireland | 23% | All customers (B2C and B2B) |
| United Kingdom | 20% | Unless a valid local VAT ID is supplied |
| Turkey | 20% | Unless a valid local VAT ID is supplied |
| Norway | 25% | Unless a valid local VAT ID is supplied |
| Switzerland | 8.1% | All customers |
| Saudi Arabia | 15% | Unless a valid local VAT ID is supplied |
| United Arab Emirates | 5% | Unless a valid local VAT ID is supplied |
| South Africa | 15% | All customers |
| Nigeria | 7.5% | All customers |
| Kenya | 16% | All customers |
| Egypt | 14% | Unless a valid local VAT ID is supplied |
| Ghana | 15% | All customers |
| Serbia | 20% | All customers |
| Russia | 20% | Private (B2C) customers |
| Ukraine | 20% | Unless a valid local VAT ID is supplied |
| Kazakhstan | 12% | Unless a valid local VAT ID is supplied |
| Uzbekistan | 12% | Unless a valid local VAT ID is supplied |
| Armenia | 20% | Unless a valid local VAT ID is supplied |
| Belarus | 20% | Unless a valid local VAT ID is supplied |
| Moldova | 20% | Unless a valid local VAT ID is supplied |
| Georgia | 18% | Listed at 18% |
| Benin | 18% | Listed at 18% |
| Ivory Coast | 18% | Listed at 18% |
| Senegal | 18% | Listed at 18% |
| Tanzania | 18% | Listed at 18% |
| Uganda | 18% | Listed at 18% |
| Bahrain | 10% | Listed at 10% |
| Bahamas | 10% | Listed at 10% |
| Suriname | 10% | Listed at 10% |
| Barbados | 17.5% | Listed at 17.5% |
| Iceland | 24% | Unless a valid local VAT ID is supplied |
| Liechtenstein | 8.1% | Listed at 8.1% |
| Oman | 5% | Unless a valid local VAT ID is supplied |
| Zambia | 16% | Listed at 16% |
| Chile | 19% | Unless a valid local VAT ID is supplied |
| Colombia | 19% | Unless a valid local VAT ID is supplied |
| Mexico | 16% | All customers |
| Peru | 18% | Unless a valid local VAT ID is supplied |
Asia-Pacific: the rates LinkedIn Singapore applies
Asia-Pacific purchases, India excepted, are billed through LinkedIn’s Singapore entity. Three of these carry conditions worth reading rather than skimming.
| Country | Rate LinkedIn states | Who it is charged to |
|---|---|---|
| Australia | 10% GST | All Australian customers, with or without an ABN |
| Singapore | 9% GST | All customers (B2C and B2B) |
| Indonesia | 12% PPN | All customers — LinkedIn Singapore is an appointed PMSE collector |
| Japan | 10% JCT | B2C only; B2B customers self-assess to the National Tax Agency |
| Vietnam | 10% | Unless a valid local VAT ID is supplied |
| Malaysia | 8% SST | All customers |
| Philippines | 12% | Unless a valid local VAT ID is supplied |
| Thailand | 7% | Unless a valid local VAT ID is supplied |
| Taiwan | 5% | Unless a valid local VAT ID is supplied |
| South Korea | 10% | Unless a valid local VAT ID is supplied |
| New Zealand | 15% | Unless a valid local VAT ID is supplied |
| Nepal | 13% | Unless a valid local VAT ID is supplied |
| Laos | 10% | All customers |
| Bangladesh | 15% | B2C customers |
Australia is the exception that catches businesses out. LinkedIn Singapore has a fixed GST establishment in Australia, so 10% GST is charged to every Australian customer — supplying an ABN does not remove it, unlike the tax-ID exemption that applies in most other countries on this list.
Indonesia is charged to everyone as well, because LinkedIn Singapore is an appointed PMSE collector there, so the 12% PPN applies regardless of buyer type.
Japan splits by buyer. The 10% JCT is charged to consumers; business buyers are not charged by LinkedIn and instead self-assess the tax to the National Tax Agency.
India and the European Union
India: 18% GST. LinkedIn applies it to customers without a valid Indian GST registration, which in practice means individual buyers. Registered businesses fall under the standard structure instead — CGST plus SGST on intra-state supplies, IGST on inter-state — and add their GSTIN in the billing flow. Our India pricing page works the arithmetic through in full.
European Union: it depends on whether you are a business with a VAT number. LinkedIn Ireland charges VAT to all Irish customers and to private (B2C) customers across the EU. An EU business outside Ireland with a valid VAT number is not charged — the reverse-charge mechanism applies and the buyer accounts for the tax themselves. Without a valid VAT number, that member state’s own rate applies. This is why we do not print a single “EU rate” anywhere on this site: there is not one.
Canada does not appear on LinkedIn’s tax page at all. We are recording that as an absence rather than inferring what it means, because inferring would be guessing. Canadian buyers should read the total on their own checkout screen. The same goes for the United States, which the page does not enumerate either.
What this table can and cannot tell you
It can tell you whether a quoted price is plausible. If an article says LinkedIn Premium Career costs a certain amount in Turkey and the figure sits below the list price plus 20%, one of the two numbers is wrong. That is the main honest use of this page: a check, not a quote.
It cannot tell you your checkout total. LinkedIn sets list prices per market and runs offers per account, and the platform you subscribe on changes the figure too — an in-app purchase is priced by Apple’s or Google’s own local tiers rather than by LinkedIn directly. The binding number is the one on your own upgrade screen at linkedin.com/premium/products while signed in.
It is a snapshot, not a live feed. Everything here was read on 28 August 2026. LinkedIn adds countries and revises rates without announcement. If you are relying on this for a procurement decision, open LinkedIn’s tax page yourself and compare.
Where a country has its own dedicated page on this site, the arithmetic is already worked through there: United Kingdom, India, Australia, Canada, Singapore, United Arab Emirates and South Africa. The full list prices those pages build on are on our LinkedIn Premium cost page.