Saudi Arabia Tax filing deadlines
Saudi Arabia Tax filing deadlines: 2 deadline rules held, cited to 2 rules, each cited to its own official source; series-level citation is the first VAT rule's: Submit Zakat & Tax Returns by April 29. Last checked against the official source on 13 Oct 2026.
Official source: 2 rules, each cited to its own official source; series-level citation is the first VAT rule's: Submit Zakat & · Last checked 2026-10-13 · source fingerprint
Recurring statutory filing and payment deadlines in Saudi Arabia for corporate income tax returns and provisional payments, held as rules, each cited to the official source with the verbatim phrase that states it. The API computes the actual due dates from these rules, rolled for this country's weekend and national public holidays, and lists every day it stepped over.
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| Current value | 2 deadline rules |
|---|---|
| In force from | — |
| Official source | 2 rules, each cited to its own official source; series-level citation is the first VAT rule's: Submit Zakat & Tax Returns by April 29 — ZATCA news (16 April 2024) |
| Last verified | 2026-10-13 |
| Verification | primary — No verification limitation recorded — read from the official source cited. |
| Provenance | source fingerprint |
What this value means
RULES, NOT DATES. Each rule carries its own citation, anchor phrase and last_confirmed; the series last_confirmed is the oldest of them. effective_from is null on purpose: the rules rest on different instruments with different commencement dates, and no single date would be true of all of them. The paid response adds due_dates, computed from the rules over a window (default the next 365 days; from/to/year_end/tax query parameters). scripts/deadline-verify.mjs re-fetches every cited source and re-finds every anchor.
Get it programmatically
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# Provenance: curl https://mearef.dev/provenance/sa/filing-deadlinesThe rules
Each rule is cited to the official source, with the phrase that states it. A machine re-reads every cited source and re-finds that phrase; a rule whose phrase disappears is flagged for review.
| Tax | Obligation | Frequency | Due | Weekend / holiday | Official source | Last verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Corporate income tax | Zakat return and payment (establishments) Establishments subject to zakat (Implementing Regulation for Zakat Collection). | annual | 120 days after the period ends | moves to the next business day | Submit Zakat & Tax Returns by April 29 — ZATCA news (16 April 2024) “pay zakat using the forms and procedures specified by zatca within a period not exceeding 120 days from the end of the zakat year” | 2026-10-13 |
| Corporate income tax | Corporate income tax return Income taxpayers (e.g. non-Saudi shares in resident capital companies; non-residents with a permanent establishment). | annual | 120 days after the period ends | source silent; not moved, flagged | Submit Zakat & Tax Returns by April 29 — ZATCA news (16 April 2024) “mandates the submission of tax returns within 120 days of the end of the tax year represented by the return” | 2026-10-13 |
Due in the next 120 days
No deadline under these rules falls in the next 120 days.
Business days exclude this country's weekly rest days (Friday, Saturday) and the NATIONAL public holidays in its public-holidays series. Regional holidays are not applied. Each due date is computed from the cited rule; the rule is the citable fact, the date is our arithmetic on it. Thresholds, elections, extensions and sector regimes that move a taxpayer between rules are described in each rule's applies_to and notes, not decided here.
Not covered here
We hold no verified rule for these taxes in SA. Each reason is given; where a deadline exists but its source could not be verified, we hold none rather than guess.
- VAT / GST: VAT return/payment deadline (VAT Implementing Regulations Art. 59/62: last day of the month following the tax period) could not be anchored: the ZATCA regulations PDF and taxpayer calendar PDF have no text layer our tool can extract, and no ZATCA HTML page states the rule in general terms (news releases give only single dates).
- PAYE / payroll withholding: Not researched / unverified: no official source fetched that states employees' salaries are outside income tax. ZATCA withholding tax (Income Tax Law Art. 68, due within the first ten days of the following month) applies to payments to non-residents, not payroll, and its guideline PDF is not extractable. GOSI social insurance is not a tax and was not researched.
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