MG · Country and locale facts
Document format and locale facts for Madagascar
Use these defaults as a practical starting point for presentation. ISO/CLDR formatting facts are not legal or tax advice, and reviewed jurisdiction guidance is identified separately.
Currency & locale
MGA · mg-MG
Paper & date
A4 · YYYY-MM-DD (YMD)
Language
mg (official) · LTR
Text system
gregory calendar · latn digits
Why these defaults?
The country code comes from ISO 3166. Unicode CLDR supplies presentation-oriented locale, currency, paper, date, language, calendar, numbering, and direction metadata. Defaults reduce setup time; they do not decide what a valid document must contain.
Recorded official or regional-official language tags: mg, fr, en.
Limited guidance reviewed
Document vocabulary and checks
Madagascar's invoice identity and payment particulars, VAT amount presentation, ten-year tax-record period and existence of the national e-Facturation decree are supported by official DGI texts. The 2026 consolidation and exact e-Facturation taxpayer scope, rollout and validation workflow remain open, so this pack stays partial.
Evidence snapshot: 5 official sources · last reviewed 2026-07-20. This is scoped guidance, not a jurisdiction-wide compliance certification.
Tax labels: TVA. Business identifier labels: NIFONLINE / Numéro statistique.
- Guidance: The DGI's published finance-law text requires invoices to identify seller and customer by name or legal name, address, statistical identifier and online tax identifier, and to show quantity, unit price, total in figures and words, payment due date and payment method. VAT invoices separately show the price excluding tax and VAT.Evidence MG_DGI_FINANCE_LAW_2020, MG_DGI_VAT_AMENDMENT_2021 · reviewed 2026-07-20 · review by 2027-01-20 · automation advisory only
- Guidance: The DGI's published 2025 Tax Code requires books and supporting documents to be kept for ten years from 1 January following the year in which the book was completed or the document created. Confirm the 2026 consolidated text for current use.Evidence MG_DGI_TAX_CODE_2025, MG_DGI_CURRENT_TEXTS · reviewed 2026-07-20 · review by 2027-01-20 · automation advisory only
- Guidance: The official DGI legal index publishes Decree 738-2025 implementing the national e-Facturation system. Until the decree's current taxpayer scope, rollout and technical validation path are mapped claim by claim, this local PDF must not be treated as an e-Facturation invoice or as transmitted to or validated by DGI.Evidence MG_DGI_EFACTURATION_DECREE, MG_DGI_CURRENT_TEXTS · reviewed 2026-07-20 · review by 2027-01-20 · automation advisory only
Identifier format guidance: See the relevant authority.
Reviewed official sources
- Madagascar Directorate General of Taxes - current legal-text indexLast verified 2026-07-20
- Madagascar Directorate General of Taxes - Tax Code 2025Last verified 2026-07-20
- Madagascar Directorate General of Taxes - Finance Law 2020Last verified 2026-07-20
- Madagascar Directorate General of Taxes - 2021 VAT amendmentLast verified 2026-07-20
- Madagascar Directorate General of Taxes - Decree 738-2025 e-FacturationLast verified 2026-07-20
Registry provenance
- ISO 3166 Country Codescode-list · verified 2026-07-15
- Unicode CLDR 48.2formatting-metadata · verified 2026-07-15
- Unicode CLDR Territory-Language Informationformatting-metadata · verified 2026-07-15