Afghanistan: AFN, tax & payment methods

Money

Currency and formatting

Watch out: AFN has no minor unit. Treating it like a two-decimal currency overcharges by 100×.

Tax

Afghanistan has no single national consumption tax that applies at a checkout. We report this as a null rather than inventing a rate.

Payments

Roughly ordered by real-world use — not by what a card processor would prefer you offer.

No international card scheme works reliably here — plan for local rails or cash.

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FAQs

What currency does Afghanistan use?

Afghanistan uses the Afghan Afghani (AFN), symbol ؋. It has no minor unit — amounts are whole numbers, so ؋123,457 is a complete price.

How many decimal places does AFN have?

AFN has 0 decimal places. Charging with the wrong number of minor units is a 100× error, so this is worth getting right.

Is there sales tax in Afghanistan?

Afghanistan has no single national consumption-tax rate that applies to a checkout.

What payment methods are used in Afghanistan?

The methods that matter in Afghanistan, in rough order of use: cash on delivery, hesabpay, m paisa, hawala, bank transfer.

What is the dialling code for Afghanistan?

Afghanistan's country calling code is +93. Mobile numbers are formatted +93 7X XXX XXXX (9 digits after the country code).

API_

Everything on this page is one call away — plus live FX, fraud signals and the visitor's own detected country.

afghanistan.sh

curl "https://api.localesense.com/v1/countries/AF" \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer ls_live_..."