Hong Kong public holidays 2026, GST rate and tax data
Hong Kong: 17 public holidays in 2026 (next: Day following Chung Yeung Festival, 19 Oct 2026); corporate tax rate 16.5%; minimum wage 43.1 HKD per hour; policy interest rate 4%; inflation rate (CPI) 1.7%.
12 series, each cited to the official source it was verified against; most recently verified 15 Oct 2026. Currency HKD.
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Hong Kong public holidays 2026
17 days in 2026; next: Day following Chung Yeung Festival on 19 Oct 2026. Official source: GovHK 'General holidays for 2026' (General Holidays Ordinance Cap. 149; list gazetted… · last verified 23 Jul 2026
Fixed by law 6 Confirmed 7 Substitute 4
| Date | Holiday | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Jan 2026 Thu | New Year's Day | Fixed by law | GovHK 'General holidays for 2026'… |
| 17 Feb 2026 Tue | Lunar New Year's Day | Confirmed | GovHK 'General holidays for 2026'… |
| 18 Feb 2026 Wed | Second day of Lunar New Year | Confirmed | GovHK 'General holidays for 2026'… |
| 19 Feb 2026 Thu | Third day of Lunar New Year | Confirmed | GovHK 'General holidays for 2026'… |
| 3 Apr 2026 Fri | Good Friday | Fixed by law | GovHK 'General holidays for 2026'… |
| 4 Apr 2026 Sat | Day following Good Friday | Fixed by law | GovHK 'General holidays for 2026'… |
| 6 Apr 2026 Mon | Day following Ching Ming Festival substitute; Ching Ming falls on Sunday 5 Apr |
Substitute | GovHK 'General holidays for 2026'… |
| 7 Apr 2026 Tue | Day following Easter Monday bumped to Tue as 6 Apr is taken by the Ching Ming substitute |
Substitute | GovHK 'General holidays for 2026'… |
| 1 May 2026 Fri | Labour Day | Fixed by law | GovHK 'General holidays for 2026'… |
| 25 May 2026 Mon | Day following Birthday of the Buddha substitute; Buddha's Birthday falls on Sunday 24 May |
Substitute | GovHK 'General holidays for 2026'… |
| 19 Jun 2026 Fri | Tuen Ng Festival (Dragon Boat Festival) | Confirmed | GovHK 'General holidays for 2026'… |
| 1 Jul 2026 Wed | Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Establishment Day | Confirmed | GovHK 'General holidays for 2026'… |
| 26 Sep 2026 Sat | Day following the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival | Confirmed | GovHK 'General holidays for 2026'… |
| 1 Oct 2026 Thu | National Day | Confirmed | GovHK 'General holidays for 2026'… |
| 19 Oct 2026 Mon | Day following Chung Yeung Festival substitute; Chung Yeung falls on Sunday 18 Oct |
Substitute | GovHK 'General holidays for 2026'… |
| 25 Dec 2026 Fri | Christmas Day | Fixed by law | GovHK 'General holidays for 2026'… |
| 26 Dec 2026 Sat | First weekday after Christmas Day | Fixed by law | GovHK 'General holidays for 2026'… |
Status is read from the record: fixed by law follows from a standing rule (a fixed date or the Easter computus); confirmed is dated in the cited official calendar and not flagged provisional; estimated is provisional or moon-sighting dependent; substitute stands in for a statutory day that fell on a weekend or was moved. Hover a status for the reason.
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Rate schedules and breakdowns
Withholding tax rates
0–16.5% across 4 withholding taxes — no single rate · in force from 2018-04-01 · Official source: FSTB, Prevailing Tax Policy: 'no withholding tax on dividends and interest'… · last verified 10 Aug 2026
Rates by payment type
| key | label | rate | applies to | effective from | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| dividends | Dividends to non-residents (no withholding tax) | 0 | dividends paid by Hong Kong companies to any shareholder, resident or non-resident | — | Financial Services and the Treasury… |
| Zero by absence of any charge, not by exemption from a withholding regime: dividends are not chargeable to profits tax in the recipient's hands and no withholding mechanism exists. | |||||
| interest | Interest to non-residents (no withholding tax) | 0 | interest paid from Hong Kong to non-resident lenders and depositors | — | Financial Services and the Treasury… |
| No withholding mechanism exists for interest. A non-resident financial institution carrying on business in Hong Kong may be assessed directly on Hong Kong-sourced interest profits, but that is ordinary profits tax, not a withholding tax. | |||||
| royalties | Royalties to non-residents - normal case (effective 4.95% corporate) | 4.95 | sums to a non-resident for the use, or right to use, in Hong Kong of a patent, design, trade mark, copyright material, layout-design of an integrated circuit, performer's right, plant variety right, secret process or formula (IRO s. 15(1)(b)), or for use outside Hong Kong where the sum is deductible in Hong Kong (s. 15(1)(ba)) | 2008-04-01 | IRD DIPN 22 para. 27 on IRO s. 21A… |
| Not a flat-rate withholding but a deemed-profits assessment collected from the Hong Kong payer. For unincorporated non-resident recipients the effective rate is 30% x 15% = 4.5%. Under the two-tiered regime (from YA 2018/19) the first HK$2M of deemed profits may attract 8.25%… | |||||
| royalties-associate | Royalties to an associated non-resident where the IP was previously owned by a Hong Kong taxpayer (effective 16.5% corporate) | 16.5 | royalties within IRO s. 15(1)(b)/(ba) paid or accruing to an 'associate' of the payer where the intellectual property was previously owned by a person carrying on a trade, profession or business in Hong Kong | 2008-04-01 | IRD DIPN 22 paras. 27-28 on IRO s. 21A… |
| Anti-avoidance deeming: counters schemes where a Hong Kong company transfers in-house IP to an offshore associate and licenses it back, deducting 100% while only 30% would be taxed. Unincorporated recipient: effective 15%. | |||||
Salaries Tax (progressive rates)
2–17% across 5 bands · in force from 2018-04-01 · Official source: GovHK 'Tax Rates of Salaries Tax & Personal Assessment' / Inland Revenue… · last verified 23 Jul 2026
| min | max | rate |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | 50000 | 2 |
| 50000 | 100000 | 6 |
| 100000 | 150000 | 10 |
| 150000 | 200000 | 14 |
| 200000 | — | 17 |
Statutory social-insurance contributions
0–10% across 3 contribution branches · in force from 2014-06-01 · Official source: Mandatory Provident Fund Schemes Ordinance (Cap. 485) and the Mandatory… · last verified 11 Aug 2026
| key | label | rate total | rate employee | rate employer | unit | base | currency |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| mpf_employee | Mandatory Provident Fund (MPF) / 強制性公積金 — employee mandatory contribution, monthly-paid | 10 | 5 | 5 | percent | "Relevant income" — all monetary payments paid or payable by an employer to an employee, including wages, salary, leave pay, fees, commissions, bonuses, gratuities, perquisites and allowances. EXCLUDED: severance payments and long service payments under the Employment Ordinance, non-monetary benefits (meal vouchers and the like), reimbursements of employment expenses, and tips not collected by the employer. Subject to a minimum and a maximum relevant income level: for monthly-paid employees $7,100 and $30,000 a month; for daily-paid employees $280 and $1,000 a day (a weekly-paid employee therefore falls between $1,960 and $7,000 a week). | HKD |
| THE FLOOR AND THE CEILING BEHAVE COMPLETELY DIFFERENTLY, AND THIS ASYMMETRY IS THE CENTRAL TRAP. Below the minimum relevant income of $7,100 a month the EMPLOYEE PAYS NOTHING but the EMPLOYER STILL PAYS 5% of the actual relevant income — the employer's obligation has no floor at… | |||||||
| mpf_voluntary_and_tvc | MPF voluntary and tax-deductible voluntary contributions (TVC) — not mandatory | — | — | — | percent | Freely chosen by the employer or the employee; there is no statutory rate. Tax-deductible voluntary contributions are subject to an annual salaries-tax deduction cap shared with qualifying deferred annuity premiums. | HKD |
| Listed with nulls so the branch is visibly present rather than silently missing, NOT because it is mandatory. Many Hong Kong employers contribute above 5%, and above-cap employer contributions are contractual rather than statutory. A payroll engine must treat any contribution… | |||||||
| no_social_insurance | Social insurance (pension, health, unemployment, work injury) — NO CONTRIBUTORY SCHEME EXISTS | — | 0 | 0 | percent | Not applicable — no contributory branch exists. | HKD |
| STATED EXPLICITLY SO IT IS NOT MISTAKEN FOR AN OMISSION. Hong Kong has NO contributory state pension, NO social health-insurance contribution, NO unemployment insurance and NO work-injury insurance FUND. Public hospitals are financed from general revenue and charge nominal fees… | |||||||
HKMA official exchange rates
7.847 USD; 4 currencies held · in force from 2026-09-30 · Official source: Hong Kong Monetary Authority · last verified 15 Oct 2026
| currency | rate |
|---|---|
| USD | 7.847 |
| EUR | 8.907 |
| GBP | 10.4025 |
| JPY | 0.05004 |
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