GTL Summary:

Document Type: IR - Implementing Regulations
Law: Value Added Tax Law
Decision Number: 3839-article-41
Year: 2016
Country: πŸ‡ΈπŸ‡¦ KSA
Official Name: Article 41 - Goods Deemed to Be Imports into the Kingdom
Last updated at: 2025-11-27 14:38:44 UTC

Chapter 8 - Imports

Article 41 - Goods Deemed to Be Imports into the Kingdom

  1. In cases where any legal Person or a natural Person who is resident in the Kingdom but who is not registered for VAT enters Goods with a value exceeding ten thousand (10,000) SAR into the Kingdom from another Member State, and cannot prove at the time of such entry that Tax was paid on the purchase of those Goods in such Member State, that Person is deemed to make an Import of those Goods for the purposes of this Law and VAT shall be payable on such imports.

  2. Proof of payment of Tax must be by means of producing a Tax Invoice or similar document issued in accordance with the laws of the Member State of purchase, or such other evidence accepted by the Customs Department showing that VAT has been paid on the Goods, or that the Goods were not purchased in that Member State.

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