The Zakat, Tax and Customs Authority (ZATCA) conducted over 61,000 inspection visits during the second quarter of 2026, targeting markets and commercial stores across various regions and cities of the Kingdom, in cooperation with relevant authorities.

ZATCA's official spokesman, Hamoud Al-Harbi, explained that 'the visits carried out by its regulatory and inspection teams included a number of commercial sectors, most notably: retail, gold, and tobacco shops. The most prominent violations detected by the regulatory teams were failure to issue electronic invoices, failure to collect value-added tax, in addition to detecting violations of tobacco products not bearing tax stamps.'

He pointed out that 'these visits aim to enhance the level of compliance with the provisions of the tax regulations in force in the Kingdom among taxpayers from the business sector, achieve tax justice, and reduce commercial transactions that violate the instructions and controls within the Authority's scope of competence. This comes within the framework of the oversight efforts carried out by field inspection teams.'

Al-Harbi called on consumers to report any facility where tax violations are detected, via the Authority's website (zatca.gov.sa) or through the ZATCA smartphone application. The Authority offers, according to specific controls, incentive rewards for informants of tax violations amounting to 2.5% of the value of violations and fines, with a maximum of one million riyals or a minimum of 1000 riyals.