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Here's the latest on ZATCA E-invoicing and other guidelines

03 september 2024

ZATCA Announced Wave 15 Under Phase 2 of Saudi Arabia e-Invoicing

Zakat, Tax and Customs Authority (ZATCA) announced the fifteenth wave under phase 2 of Saudi e-invoicing. It clarified that Value Added Tax (VAT) registered businesses with more than SAR 4 million turnover during 2022 or 2023 fall under wave 15 of phase 2.

Accordingly, applicable taxpayers shall start integrating their e-invoicing solutions with the Fatoora platform by 1st March 2025.ZATCA mentioned that phase 2 requires additional requirements such as:Integrating e-invoicing solutions with the Fatoora portalIncluding additional fields in the invoiceIssuing e-invoices in the ZATCA formatFurther, ZATCA announces the applicability of phase 2 to applicable businesses a minimum of six months before the integration date. Read full article on: https://www.cleartax.com/sa/zatca-wave15-einvoicing-in-saudi-arabia

29 january 2024

Penalties for VAT & e-Invoicing Offences in KSA

The Zakat, Tax, and Customs Authority (ZATCA) (earlier known as GAZT) of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) has mandated e-invoicing of the Value Added Tax (VAT) invoices from 4th December 2021. The authority also recently amended the penalties for offences related to e-invoicing.

Penalties are usually imposed when a taxpayer fails to meet the guidelines or instructions provided in the regulation. Hence, every taxpayer must be mindful of what penalties are imposed if they commit an offence. This article aims to explain various penalties imposed for the offences related to KSA VAT and e-invoicing, along with the recent amendments approved by ZATCA.

16 August 2024

ZATCA e-Invoicing Phase 2: Applicability, Requirements, Rules and Regulations in Saudi Arabia

e-Invoicing in Saudi Arabia (SA) was introduced as an extension of the economic renaissance and digital transformation. This initiative is in line with achieving positive results of raising consumer protection and reducing hidden economy transactions.

Zakat, Tax and Customs Authority (ZATCA) or Authority has issued the requirements, technical specifications, controls and procedural rules for implementing phase 2 of e-invoicing in SA. Also, it issued XML implementation standards; e-invoice security features implementation standards and data dictionary for Phase 2

These regulations are important for taxpayers to comply with phase 2. i.e., the integration phase.

Under phase 2, the businesses must integrate their POS/ accounting systems with the Authority’s system for

Clearance of tax invoices and related Credit and Debit Notes (CDNs) and
Reporting of simplified tax invoices and related CDNs.

17 November 2023

ZATCA determines the criteria for Wave 9 for integration phase of e-invoicing

ZATCA has outlined the criteria for selecting participants in the 9th wave of the 'Integration phase' or 'Phase II E-invoicing.'

Those who meet the criteria must integrate their E-invoicing solutions with ZATCA by June 1, 2024, for wave 9. Taxpayers with VAT-subject revenues surpassing 30 Million Saudi Riyals (in 2021 or 2022) fall within the scope of wave 9. For Phase II, wave 9 customers are required to connect their ERP/POS with ZATCA servers using a middleware API, create E-invoices in XML or PDF/A3 format, and generate a universally unique identifier (UUID), cryptographic stamp, hash, and QR code

Aug 18,2023

ZATCA announces Wave 8 of ZATCA Phase II E-invoicing
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ZATCA has announced the criteria for selecting taxpayers in the eighth wave of the 'Integration phase' or ‘Phase II E-invoicing’.

Taxpayers meeting the criteria are expected to integrate their E-invoicing solutions with ZATCA starting 1 March 2024 for wave 8. Taxpayers whose revenues subject to VAT exceed 40 Million Saudi Riyals (during 2021 or 2022) will come under wave 8. ZATCA Phase II will require wave 8 customers to integrate their ERP/POS with ZATCA servers using a middleware API, generate E-invoices in XML or PDF/A3 format, generate universally unique identifier (UUID), cryptographic stamp, hash and QR codes

june 16,2023

ZATCA announced the extension of "Cancellation of Fines and Exemption of Penalties initiative

ZATCA has announced an extension of the initiative until 31 May 2023, with the aim of assisting eligible taxpayers in mitigating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

According to ZATCA, the extension aims to provide support to taxpayers who meet the necessary requirements. Additionally, ZATCA has clarified that the exemption decision covers various fines, including those for late registration in all tax systems, late payment, late filing of returns in all tax systems, fines related to correcting VAT returns, and fines associated with violations of VAT field control pertaining to the implementation of e-invoicing regulations and other general regulations.

june 16,2023

ZATCA announces Wave 5, 6 and 7 of ZATCA Phase II E-invoicing

ZATCA has announced the criteria for selecting taxpayers in the fifth, sixth and seventh wave of the 'Integration phase' or ‘Phase II E-invoicing’.

Taxpayers meeting the criteria are expected to integrate their E-invoicing solutions with ZATCA starting 1 December 2023 for wave 5, 1 January 2024 for wave 6 & 1 February 2024 for wave 7. Taxpayers whose revenues subject to VAT exceeded 100 Million Saudi Riyals, 70 Million Saudi Riyals and 50 Million Saudi Riyals (during 2021 or 2022) will come under wave 5, 6 & 7 respectively. ZATCA Phase II will require wave 5, 6 & 7 customers to integrate their ERP/POS with ZATCA servers using a middleware API, generate E-invoices in XML or PDF/A3 format, generate universally unique identifier (UUID), cryptographic stamp, hash and QR codes

April 21,2023

ZATCA announces Wave 4 of ZATCA Phase II E-invoicing

ZATCA has announced the criteria for selecting taxpayers in the fourth wave of the 'Integration phase' or ‘Phase II E-invoicing’.

Taxpayers meeting the criteria are expected to integrate their E-invoicing solutions with ZATCA starting 1 November 2023. Taxpayers whose revenues subject to VAT exceeded (150 Million Saudi Riyals) during 2021 or 2022 will come under wave 4. ZATCA Phase II will require wave 4 customers to integrate their ERP/POS with ZATCA servers using a middleware API, generate E-invoices in XML or PDF/A3 format, generate universally unique identifier (UUID), cryptographic stamp, hash and QR codes

March 24,2023

ZATCA announces Wave 3 of ZATCA Phase II e-invoicing

ZATCA has announced the criteria for selecting taxpayers in the third wave of the 'Integration phase' or ‘Phase II e-invoicing’.

Taxpayers meeting the criteria are expected to integrate their E-invoicing solutions with ZATCA starting 1 October 2023. Taxpayers whose revenues subject to VAT exceeded (250 Million Saudi Riyals) during 2021 or 2022 will come under wave 3. ZATCA Phase II will require wave 3 customers to integrate their ERP/POS with ZATCA servers using a middleware API, generate e-invoices in XML or PDF/A3 format, generate universally unique identifier (UUID), cryptographic stamp, hash and QR codes

December 23,2022

ZATCA announces Wave 2 of ZATCA Phase II e-invoicing

ZATCA has announced the implementation of the 'Linking and Integration phase' for e-invoicing to start on 1 July 2023, with the establishments that are selected within the second group.

They have emphasised that the establishments included in the second group were identified based on the standard of the volume of revenues subject to VAT for the year 2021, & whose revenues exceed half a billion riyals (500M SAR)

November 30, 2022

ZATCA has now announced the "Cancellation of Fines and Exemption of Penalties initiative" for taxpayers

The Authority announced the extension of "Cancellation of Fines and Exemption of Penalties initiative" for taxpayers who are subject to all tax systems, for an additional period of six months, beginning on 1 December 2022, ending on 31 May 2023.

The Authority stated that the initiative's extension is motivated by a desire to help taxpayers who meet the requirements benefit from it to reduce the consequences of the covid-19 pandemic.The Authority has also clarified that the fines covered by the exemption decision, according to the Authority, include fines for late registration in all tax systems, late payment, late filing of returns fines in all tax systems, and fines to correct VAT returns, as well as fines for violations of VAT field control related to applying the e-invoicing regulations and other general regulations.

july 2,2022

ZATCA exempts taxpayers from wide scale fines and financial penalties

The Zakat, Tax, and Customs Authority (ZATCA) announced an initiative to suspend fines and penalties for taxpayers subject to all tax laws in the Kingdom, starting from 1 June 2022 until 30 November 2022.

Following fines have been included in the exemption decision:
1. Penalties imposed for late registration in all tax systems;
2. Late payments fines;
3.Late submission of the declaration in all tax systems;
4. Late correcting fines of the declaration for value-added tax;
5. Fines related to the violations of electronic invoicing provisions and other general provisions of the value-added tax law.

june 24, 2022

ZATCA has defined taxpayers who are required to comply with Phase II

On 24 June 2022, ZATCA announced that taxpayers with annual revenues subject to VAT exceeding SAR 3 billion (ca. EUR 750 million) would be included in the first wave of businesses to comply with Phase 2 e-invoicing requirements.

Businesses included in the first integration will have to comply with Phase 2 requirements, starting from 1 January 2023 and no later than 30 June 2023.Taxpayers falling in this wave should fully meet all ZATCA e-invoicing requirements and fully integrate all their electronic solutions with ZATCA systems by the end of the above-mentioned date. Taxpayers not compliant by 1 July 2023 will face penalties.

june 1, 2022

ZATCA Initiates Procedures for Implementing Phase II (Integration Phase)

ZATCA has revealed that the implementation of Phase Two (Integration Phase) of e-invoicing project will begin on 1st of January 2023 with the selected taxpayers in the first wave, while stressing

that the taxpayers in the first wave were selected based on the revenue subject to VAT for the year of 2021 exceeding (3 billion) SAR. ZATCA has stated that Phase Two (Integration Phase) requires additional requirements, the most prominent are to integrate taxpayer's e-invoicing solutions with ZATCA's Platform (FATOORA), issue electronic invoices based on a specific format, and include additional fields in the invoice. Furthermore, Phase Two (Integration Phase) of e-invoicing would take place gradually and into waves, and ZATCA would inform the following waves directly at least six months before their integration date.