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Document Type: IR - Implementing Regulations
Law: Value Added Tax Law
Decision Number: 3839-article-14
Year: 2016
Country: πŸ‡ΈπŸ‡¦ KSA
Official Name: Article 14 - Taxable Supplies in the Kingdom
Last updated at: 2025-11-27 14:38:44 UTC

Chapter 3 - Supplies of Goods and Services

Article 14 - Taxable Supplies in the Kingdom

  1. Without prejudice to Article 2 of the Law, and for the purposes of applying the Agreement and the Law in the Kingdom, tax shall be imposed on all taxable supplies of goods or services, or both, made by any taxable person in the Kingdom in the course of carrying out an economic activity, or on those received by any taxable person in the Kingdom in the course of carrying out an economic activity in cases where the reverse charge mechanism applies, as well as on the importation of goods into the Kingdom.[22]

  2. For the purposes of implementing the provisions of the Agreement and the Law, a supply of services shall include any transaction that does not constitute a supply of goods, including but not limited to the following: [23]

    1. The grant, assignment, allocation, suspension, or waiver of a right.

    2. The provision of a facility or benefit.

    3. The undertaking to refrain from carrying out a specific act or to permit the carrying out thereof.

    4. The agreement to waive a right to participate in any activity, to prevent such participation, or to agree to carry out any activity.

    5. The assignment or transfer of an indivisible share in a good.

    6. The authorization to exploit, or the transfer or assignment of, intangible rights, including, for example, copyrights, patents, trademarks, and rights falling within the scope of intellectual property laws in force in the Kingdom.

Footnotes

[22]The paragraph was amended pursuant to the decision of the Board of Directors of the Zakat, Tax and Customs Authority Circular No. (01-06-24) dated 17 Jumada Al-Awwal 1446 AH, corresponding to November 19, 2024. Prior to the amendment, the paragraph read as follows:
'Without prejudice to the provisions of Article 2 of the Law, and for the purposes of applying the Agreement and the Law in the Kingdom, tax shall be imposed on all taxable supplies of goods and services made by any taxable person in the Kingdom in the course of carrying out an economic activity, or on those received by any taxable person in the Kingdom in the course of carrying out an economic activity in cases where the reverse charge mechanism applies, as well as on the importation of goods into the Kingdom'
The paragraph above was amended pursuant to the decision of the Board of Directors of the General Authority of Zakat and Income No. (7-2-20) dated 12 Sha'ban 1441 AH, corresponding to April 5, 2020. Prior to the amendment, the paragraph read as follows:
'Without prejudice to Article 2 of the Law, and for the purposes of applying the Agreement and the Law in the Kingdom, tax shall be imposed on all supplies of goods and services made by any taxable person in the Kingdom, or received by any taxable person in the Kingdom in cases where the reverse charge mechanism applies, as well as on the importation of goods into the Kingdom.'

[23] The paragraph was added by a decision of the Board of Directors of the Zakat, Tax and Customs Authority, passed by resolution No. (01-06-24) on 17 Jumada Al-Awwal 1446 AH, corresponding to 19 November 2024 AD.

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