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Document Type: IR - Implementing Regulations
Law: Value Added Tax Law
Decision Number: 3839-article-58
Year: 2016
Country: πŸ‡ΈπŸ‡¦ KSA
Official Name: Article 58 - Tax Period
Last updated at: 2025-11-27 14:38:44 UTC

Chapter 10 - Procedure and Administration

Article 58 - Tax Period [92]

  1. For Taxpayers whose annual value of Taxable Supplies exceeds forty million (40,000,000) SAR during the previous twelve months, the Tax Period shall be monthly.

  2. For all other Taxpayers, the standard Tax Period shall be three months.

  3. A Taxable Person whose annual value of Taxable Supplies does not exceed the value in the first Paragraph may submit an application to use a monthly Tax Period.

  4. Upon approval of an application by a Taxable Person to use a monthly Tax Period, the Authority will issue a notification including the effective date of the change. The effective date will be the start of the next Tax Period following that in which approval is granted.

  5. A Taxable Person who has used the monthly Tax Period for two years may submit an application to use a Tax Period of three months, provided that Taxable Person's value of annual Taxable Supplies during the last twelve months does not exceed the value prescribed in the first Paragraph of this Article at the time of the application.

  6. Upon approval of an application by a Taxable Person to use a three-month Tax Period, the Authority will issue a notification including the effective date of the change. The effective date will be the start of the next Tax Period following that in which approval is granted.

  7. In cases where the Authority directs the Taxable Person to use a certain Tax Period it will issue a notification and the effective date of such Tax Period.

Footnotes

[92] Paragraph 8 was added pursuant to BoD Resolution No. (7-2-20) dated 12/08/1441H corresponding to 05/04/2020G and deleted pursuant to BoD Resolution No. (1-5-20) dated 14/02/1442H corresponding to 01/10/2020G.
Prior to the amendment, Paragraph 8 read as follows:
'The Authority may determine a different tax period for a taxable person registered with it under the special registration mechanism. The Authority shall notify that person of their specific tax period and the date on which it takes effect. '

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