Saudi Arabia public holidays 2026, VAT rate and tax data
Saudi Arabia: VAT rate 15% since 1 Jul 2020; 10 public holidays in 2026; corporate tax rate 20%; minimum wage 4000 SAR/month; policy interest rate 4.5%; inflation rate (CPI) 1.9%.
12 series, each cited to the official source it was verified against; most recently verified 28 Oct 2026. Currency SAR.
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{ "country": "SA", "series": "vat", "value": 15, "unit": "percent", "effective_from": "2020-07-01", "last_confirmed": "2026-07-24", "source": { "name": "Zakat, Tax and Customs Authority (ZATCA), Value Added Tax Law and Imp…", "url": "https://zatca.gov.sa/en/RulesRegulations/Taxes/Pages/VATLaw.aspx" } }
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Saudi Arabia public holidays 2026
10 days in 2026. Official source: Saudi Labor Law, Article 112 (Royal Decree M/51 of 1426H, as amended), administered by… · last verified 24 Jul 2026
Confirmed 10
| Date | Holiday | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22 Feb 2026 Sun | Founding Day (Yawm al-Ta'sis) — fixed Gregorian date, marks the 1727 founding of the first Saudi state | Confirmed | Saudi Labor Law, Article 112 (Royal… |
| 20 Mar 2026 Fri | Eid al-Fitr (Day 1) 1 Shawwal 1447; officially announced 18 Mar 2026 after the crescent was not sighted (Ramadan completed 30 days) |
Confirmed | Saudi Labor Law, Article 112 (Royal… |
| 21 Mar 2026 Sat | Eid al-Fitr (Day 2) | Confirmed | Saudi Labor Law, Article 112 (Royal… |
| 22 Mar 2026 Sun | Eid al-Fitr (Day 3) | Confirmed | Saudi Labor Law, Article 112 (Royal… |
| 23 Mar 2026 Mon | Eid al-Fitr (Day 4) | Confirmed | Saudi Labor Law, Article 112 (Royal… |
| 26 May 2026 Tue | Arafah Day (Day of Arafah) — 9 Dhul Hijjah 1447; first day of the Eid al-Adha holiday | Confirmed | Saudi Labor Law, Article 112 (Royal… |
| 27 May 2026 Wed | Eid al-Adha (Day 1) — 10 Dhul Hijjah 1447 | Confirmed | Saudi Labor Law, Article 112 (Royal… |
| 28 May 2026 Thu | Eid al-Adha (Day 2) | Confirmed | Saudi Labor Law, Article 112 (Royal… |
| 29 May 2026 Fri | Eid al-Adha (Day 3) | Confirmed | Saudi Labor Law, Article 112 (Royal… |
| 23 Sep 2026 Wed | Saudi National Day (Al-Yawm al-Watani) fixed Gregorian date, marks the 1932 unification of the Kingdom |
Confirmed | Saudi Labor Law, Article 112 (Royal… |
Status is read from the record: fixed by law follows from a standing rule (a fixed date or the Easter computus); confirmed is dated in the cited official calendar and not flagged provisional; estimated is provisional or moon-sighting dependent; substitute stands in for a statutory day that fell on a weekend or was moved. Hover a status for the reason.
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Rate schedules and breakdowns
Withholding tax rates
5–20% across 6 withholding taxes — no single rate · in force from 2004-03-06 · Official source: ZATCA Tax Circular 'Implementation of Withholding Tax (WHT) Under the Double… · last verified 10 Aug 2026
Rates by payment type
| key | label | rate | applies to | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| dividends | Dividends (including PE profit transfers) | 5 | any distribution by a resident company to a non-resident shareholder, and any profits transferred by a permanent establishment to related parties (de facto branch remittance) | ZATCA WHT Circular (Jan 2025), s.3.1.5… |
| Because 'dividends' expressly covers profits transferred by a PE to related parties, the 5% rate functions as Saudi Arabia's branch remittance tax as well. | ||||
| interest | Loan charges / income from debt-claims | 5 | loan charges (interest and other proceeds from debt-claims) paid from a Saudi source to a non-resident | ZATCA WHT Circular (Jan 2025), s.3.1.5… |
| royalties | Royalties | 15 | sale or licence of industrial or intellectual property in the Kingdom (excluding sale of full ownership), including use of or right to use IP, know-how, software and equipment where characterised as royalty | ZATCA WHT Circular (Jan 2025), s.3.1.5… |
| management-fees | Management fees | 20 | management or directors' fees paid from a Saudi source to a non-resident | ZATCA WHT Circular (Jan 2025), s.3.1.5… |
| The highest Saudi WHT rate. Correct characterisation between 'management fee' (20%) and 'technical/consulting service' (5%) is the single largest rate cliff in the regime. | ||||
| technical-consulting-services | Technical and consulting services | 5 | technical or consulting services paid to a non-resident third party, taxable 'regardless of the place of performance of such services' | ZATCA WHT Circular (Jan 2025), s.3.1.5… |
| 5% applies to third parties. Under Article 63 of the Implementing Regulations, payments to a head office or a related company for services attract 15% instead; the circular's table carries a separate related-party column reflecting this. | ||||
| other-payments | Any other services from sources in KSA | 15 | any other services from sources in the Kingdom not falling in a named category | ZATCA WHT Circular (Jan 2025), s.3.1.5… |
| Further named 5% categories not broken out as separate entries here: rent 5%, insurance/reinsurance premiums 5%, airline tickets and air or sea freight 5%, international telecommunication services 5% - all per the same circular table. | ||||
Statutory social-insurance contributions
0–20% across 6 contribution branches · in force from 2026-07-01 · Official source: Social Insurance Law, promulgated by Royal Decree No. M/273 dated 26/12/1445H… · last verified 8 Aug 2026
| key | label | rate total | rate employee | rate employer | unit | base | currency |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| annuities_new_system | فرع المعاشات — Annuities (pension) branch, new system (نظام التأمينات الاجتماعية الجديد 1445هـ) | 20 | 10 | 10 | percent | Contributory wage = basic wage or salary - with commission, percentage of sales and percentage of profits deemed of the same status (Executive Regulation Art. 17(a)) - plus cash housing allowance at the agreed value, or in-kind housing valued at two months' basic wage (cash at its agreed value, or in-kind housing valued at two months' basic wage), capped at SAR 45,000/month. For a worker on a fixed monthly wage, transport and other allowances, overtime and bonuses are OUTSIDE the base. For a worker paid by the piece, by a share of profits or by a percentage of sales, Executive Regulation Art. 18(2) sets the monthly contributory wage as the monthly average of what he actually earned over his actual period of work in the preceding year (for a new entrant, the average wage of a comparable worker in the same or a similar establishment) — so commission and piece-rate earnings ARE in the base for that category and must not be stripped out. | SAR |
| Applies ONLY to Saudi nationals whose first-ever contribution period under either the Social Insurance Law or the Civil Pension Law began on or after 3 July 2024 (Clause Second of RD M/273 / Resolution 1022). Anyone with an unexhausted prior contribution period, or already… | |||||||
| annuities_legacy_system | فرع المعاشات — Annuities (pension) branch, legacy system (نظام 1421هـ) | 18 | 9 | 9 | percent | Contributory wage = basic wage plus housing allowance (in-kind housing valued at two months' basic wage), capped at SAR 45,000/month and floored at SAR 1,500/month. ANTI-SPIKING RULE: GOSI publishes that in every insurance year the increase in the contributory wage of a contributor who has reached age 50 shall not exceed 10% of the wage registered in the previous insurance year, and any increase above that is not subject to contribution deduction. GOSI has separately announced one exception — an employer may raise a Saudi worker over 50 whose wage is below SAR 4,000 straight to SAR 4,000 without being bound by the 10% limit. | SAR |
| Still the majority case: it covers every Saudi employee with any prior unexhausted GOSI or Civil Pension contribution period, i.e. essentially the whole incumbent Saudi workforce. FROZEN at 9%+9% — GOSI's own legacy page states there is no change to contribution percentages, so… | |||||||
| saned_unemployment | فرع التأمين ضد التعطل عن العمل (ساند) — SANED unemployment insurance | 1.5 | 0.75 | 0.75 | percent | Contributory wage = basic wage plus housing allowance, capped at SAR 45,000/month; same base and same Executive Regulation Art. 18(2) commission/piece-rate treatment as the annuities branch. | SAR |
| SAUDI NATIONALS ONLY (Art. 43(1); entitlement to benefit also requires Saudi nationality, Art. 45(a)). Non-Saudis neither contribute nor benefit. Age limits: the worker must be below 64 years on the date he becomes subject to the Law (Art. 43(1)), and contributions SUSPEND once… | |||||||
| occupational_hazards | فرع الأخطار المهنية والتعويضات الإضافية — Occupational hazards and additional compensations branch | 2 | 0 | 2 | percent | Contributory wage = basic wage plus housing allowance, capped at SAR 45,000/month; same Executive Regulation Art. 18(2) commission/piece-rate treatment. The published floor for this branch is SAR 400/month, lower than the SAR 1,500 annuities floor — that SAR 400 is GOSI's currently published figure and originates in the legacy regime; the 1445H Law states no numeric floor (Art. 8(1) refers only to the minimum wage set by the competent authority). | SAR |
| EMPLOYER-ONLY — zero employee deduction. This is the ONLY GOSI branch that covers non-Saudis, and it is the entire reason an expatriate payslip in Saudi Arabia shows no GOSI line: the employer pays 2%, the employee pays nothing. Nationality-neutral by Art. 28. Not risk-rated and… | |||||||
| expatriate_labour_levy | المقابل المالي للعمالة الوافدة — Expatriate labour levy / work-permit fee (employer-only, non-wage-based) | — | 0 | — | currency per month | Flat amount per non-Saudi employee per month — NOT a percentage and NOT computed on wages; independent of salary and unaffected by the SAR 45,000 contributory-wage ceiling. | SAR |
| Included so the branch is visibly present rather than silently missing: this is a genuine mandatory recurring employer payroll cost per expatriate worker, and buyers modelling Saudi employer burden will materially understate it if they price only the 2% GOSI occupational-hazards… | |||||||
| cooperative_health_insurance | التأمين الصحي التعاوني — Mandatory cooperative health insurance (employer-purchased; no national premium rate) | — | — | — | currency per month | Commercial insurance premium per insured person, priced by the licensed insurer on the CHI Unified Policy benefit schedule according to age, gender, medical history and chosen network. NOT a percentage of wage and NOT computed on the contributory wage. | SAR |
| NULLS ARE THE CORRECT ANSWER HERE, not a gap: there is genuinely no national rate, percentage, ceiling or floor. The obligation is to buy a policy meeting CHI's Unified Policy minimum benefits, not to remit a statutory contribution, so premiums are quoted per head by licensed… | |||||||
Tax filing deadlines
2 deadline rules · in force from — · Official source: 2 rules, each cited to its own official source; series-level citation is the… · last verified 28 Oct 2026
| key | tax | obligation | label | frequency | applies to | confidence | last confirmed | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| zakat-return-and-payment | cit | return_and_payment | Zakat return and payment (establishments) | annual | Establishments subject to zakat (Implementing Regulation for Zakat Collection). | primary | 2026-10-28 | Submit Zakat & Tax Returns by April 29 |
| Zakat is modelled under tax 'cit' as Saudi Arabia's entity-level levy on Saudi/GCC-owned shares. Cited from a ZATCA news release that paraphrases the regulation (the regulation PDFs on zatca.gov.sa are not machine-extractable by our tool). For a 31 December year end the news… | ||||||||
| cit-return | cit | return | Corporate income tax return | annual | Income taxpayers (e.g. non-Saudi shares in resident capital companies; non-residents with a permanent establishment). | primary | 2026-10-28 | Submit Zakat & Tax Returns by April 29 |
| Payment of the balance of tax with the return (Income Tax Law Art. 71) and the three advance payments (Art. 70: last day of the 6th, 9th and 12th months) are not seeded — see gaps. | ||||||||
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