Saudi Arabia Announces the Businesses Affected by the Third Wave of Phase 2 E-invoicing Implementation

Third wave of Phase 2 e-invoicing in Saudi Arabia. Businesses with over 250M SAR VAT revenues must integrate with ZATCA's FATOORA platform by Oct 1, 2023.

Nikolett Bajtai
Nikolett Bajtai
Tax Manager
Published
Mar 31, 2023
Last update
May 12, 2025
Saudi Arabia Announces the Businesses Affected by the Third Wave of Phase 2 E-invoicing ImplementationSaudi Arabia Announces the Businesses Affected by the Third Wave of Phase 2 E-invoicing Implementation

According to the announcement of the Zakat, Tax and Customs Authority (ZATCA), the third wave of the Phase 2 e-invoicing (Integration phase) will affect all taxpayers whose revenues subject to VAT exceeded 250 million SAR (approximately 67 million USD) during 2021 or 2022.

Timeline

Affected businesses should integrate their e-invoicing solutions with the ZATCA’s e-invoicing (FATOORA) platform starting from October 1, 2023.

Impact

Following the second wave of the Phase 2 e-invoicing, the ZATCA will start to notify the taxpayers in scope of the third wave, in preparation for linking and integrating their electronic invoicing systems with the FATOORA platform.

Based on the ZATCA Governor’s Administrative Resolution No. (54252) dated 08/28/1444 AH, businesses will be expected to comply with the requirements between October 1, 2023 and February 1, 2024 depending on when they receive the notification from the ZATCA.

Companies must be ready to integrate their systems once the second wave becomes effective.

The above is a summary of the third-wave implementation. For more information on the Phase 2 e-invoicing, check out our previous blog explaining the requirements in more detail.

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Nikolett Bajtai

Nikolett Bajtai

Tax Manager

Nikolett Bajtai is a Tax Manager for Fonoa, working on Fonoa’s Returns product. Based in the Netherlands, Nikolett is passionate about helping tax teams use automation to retake ownership of their VAT/GST returns to increase accuracy and save time. Fun fact: She runs half-marathons. Without preparing.

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