Busy season tax prep support

The deadlines that stack in one season

A VAT return is due by the last day of the month following the tax period: monthly for businesses whose annual taxable supplies exceed SAR 40 million, quarterly for everyone below that. Zakat and corporate income tax returns are due within 120 days of the Zakat or tax year end, under Article 60 of the Income Tax Law. A withholding tax return for a given month is due by the 10th of the following month. Layered together, that is three separate filing clocks running on most Saudi businesses at once, and a deadline that lands on an official holiday simply moves to the next working day rather than disappearing.

What our delivery team prepares

Work starts with the source documents a client has already sent over: bank statements, sales records, supplier invoices and prior-year returns. We tie trial balances to supporting schedules and, where a business has mixed Saudi or GCC and foreign ownership, split the base so the Zakat base carries the Saudi and GCC share at 2.5% and the corporate income tax base carries the non-Saudi share at 20%, tracked and filed separately. Draft return input is completed in the format your own reviewer or tax agent partner expects.

Where the transfer pricing form fits

A business with related-party transactions, common among GCC subsidiaries of US or UK groups, must submit a Transfer Pricing Disclosure Form alongside its income tax or Zakat return. We build that disclosure schedule into the same season's prep rather than leaving it as a separate late scramble.

Fatoora is widening who this touches

E-invoicing Phase 2 integration waves have moved the qualifying revenue threshold down from an initial SAR 3 billion group to past SAR 1 million by wave 22, so a growing share of SME and startup clients now needs an integrated invoicing system rather than a manual one. Preparing for a new wave's deadline is now routine busy-season work rather than a one-off project.

Where ZATCA draws the line

This is preparation support, not filing or representation. Every VAT, Zakat, corporate tax or withholding return we help prepare is filed by your own reviewer, and any representation before ZATCA, including objections, runs through a ZATCA-licensed tax agent partner.

Ramping capacity up and back down

Most businesses add this support two to three weeks ahead of the 120-day Zakat and tax deadline, a VAT filing date or a Fatoora wave deadline, and scale it back once the filing clears.