Zakat, Tax and Customs Authority (ZATCA) conducted over 13,000 inspection visits during the past month of March, targeting markets and commercial shops in various regions and cities of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

ZATCA explained that the visits carried out by its regulatory and inspection teams, in cooperation with the National Program for Combating the Commercial Concealment, covered a number of commercial sectors, the most prominent of which were: retail sales, tobacco, food sector, and Car sale.

ZATCA indicated that the most commonly committed violations detected by the regulatory teams were: failure to include the QR code on the electronic invoice, absence of tax stamps, and failure to issue debit or credit electronic note and electronic tax invoice.

The Authority stated that these visits aim to enhance the level of compliance with the tax laws applicable in the Kingdom, among the business taxpayers, and to limit commercial transactions that violate the instructions and controls that fall within the Authority's jurisdiction, in addition to being part of the regulatory efforts carried out by the field inspection teams.

In this context, ZATCA has called on consumers to report any establishment where any tax violations are observed, through the website (zatca.gov.sa) or the mobile application (ZATCA). The Authority offers incentive rewards to those who report tax violations, at a rate of 2.5% of the value of the violations and fines, with a maximum of one million riyals and a minimum of 1,000 riyals. ​