Tax or simplified invoice?

Answer two or three questions about the sale and see the right document, how it reaches ZATCA, and the buyer details it needs.

Who is the buyer?

Does it have a VAT number?

Order value

Issue both kinds from one system: one week free, no payment

The rule in two lines

Individual consumer: a simplified invoice, handed over at once and reported within 24 hours, with no buyer details.
A business or government body: a tax invoice, cleared before handover, with its VAT number or its identifier and type. An order under SAR 1,000 may take a simplified invoice.

The full comparison is in standard vs simplified tax invoices in Saudi Arabia.

Frequently asked questions

A tax invoice is for a business or government buyer and is cleared by ZATCA before it is handed over. A simplified invoice is for an individual consumer, handed over at once and reported within 24 hours. An order under SAR 1,000 may also take a simplified invoice even when the buyer is a business.

An unregistered business is still a business: issue it a tax invoice that identifies it by its CR or unified 700 number with its type in the buyer identifier field, as rule BR-KSA-14 requires.

No. An individual consumer gets a simplified invoice however large the amount. The amount matters in one direction only: an order under SAR 1,000 may take a simplified invoice even when the buyer is a business.

An ordinary tax invoice is coded 0100000 and a simplified one 0200000. The system writes it into the document for you.

No. The tool is questions and answers in your browser, and nothing is sent.

The system picks the right path for every invoice

One week free, no payment, from the day you connect, then very competitive plans: 49 SAR a month for Growth and 149 for Business, on a smooth, fast system that signs each invoice and sends it to ZATCA in seconds.

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