Zakat, Tax and Customs Authority (ZATCA) conducted over 15,000 inspection visits during the past month of September, 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 included a number of commercial sectors, most notably: retail sales, tobacco, malls and livestock markets.
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 applicable tax regulations 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 through 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.