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ZATCA announces the implementation of the 'Linking and Integration phase' for E-invoicing to start on 1 October 2023 and 1 November 2023, with the establishments that are selected within the third group and fourth group respectively.
Third group: Who does this effect?
Businesses based on the standard of the volume of revenues subject to VAT for the year 2021 or 2022 - whose revenues exceed 250M SAR
Fourth group: Who does this effect?
Businesses based on the standard of the volume of revenues subject to VAT for the year 2021 or 2022 - whose revenues exceed 150M SAR
ZATCA announces the implementation of the 'Linking and Integration phase' for E-invoicing to start on 1 July 2023, with the establishments that are selected within the second group.
Second group: Who does this effect?
Businesses based on the standard of the volume of revenues subject to VAT for the year 2021 - whose revenues exceed half a billion riyals (500M SAR).
1- ZATCA Phase II production go-live
Starting Monday, Dec 26, 2022, ZATCA FATOORA portal will be available for go-live on production and you can start sharing invoices with ZATCA. Any invoices shared with FATOORA portal will be considered as official tax invoices as per the VAT Implementation Regulation and E-invoicing Regulation.
2- End of production testing for Phase II
ZATCA had allowed testing on the phase II production environment till now. This testing on the production environment will end on Friday, Dec 23, 2022. All invoices shared with ZATCA till Dec 23 will be purged by ZATCA. No invoicing will be allowed on ZATCA FATOORA portal or production APIs between Friday, 23 Dec 2022 and Monday, 26 Dec 2022.
3- New simulation environment by ZATCA for testing Phase II
A new simulation environment similar to the production environment will be set up by ZATCA on Tuesday, Dec 27, 2022. This simulation environment would mimic the production environment of ZATCA. More details about the simulation environment is to be shared by ZATCA and we will keep you posted on the updates.
What is ClearTax Readiness?
1. ClearTax will be ready for ZATCA go-live from Friday, Dec 23, 2022. We will be conducting a deployment Friday, Dec 23 between 4.30 AM to 6.30 AM KSA without any downtime or disruption of services.
2. In case you experience issues with ClearTax platform (for Phase I or Phase II) on Friday or thereafter, please reach out to your account manager or our support team at ksa-support@cleartax.in and we will resolve your issues at the earliest.
How does this affect ClearTax customers?
1- Customers who have completed UAT and are ready to go-live on Phase II Production-
2- Customers who are in development or UAT stage for Phase II-
3- Customers who are using ClearTax Phase I and have not shifted to Phase II yet
To read more about the announcement, you can visit these links -
English: https://zatca.gov.sa/en/MediaCenter/News/Pages/news_976.aspx
Arabic: https://zatca.gov.sa/ar/MediaCenter/News/Pages/news_976.aspx
The format of the timestamp in the UBL extensions part of the signed response has been changed due to which the response from ZATCA was not correctly captured.
Format of signing time earlier →
xades:SigningTime2023-10-05T05:45:33Z</xades:SigningTime>
Format of signing time new → xades:SigningTime2023-10-05T05:45:33</xades:SigningTime>
The character ‘Z’ at the end of the timestamp value was removed from the new response.
What was the impact?
All B2B/standard tax invoices going to the Clearance flow were impacted. The invoices were in ‘Pending’ status at ClearTax end with no QR code available in the response. Timestamp in the response is used to process multiple other flows which were all broken.
What action has been taken?
Change has been deployed from ClearTax side to accommodate the new format of timestamp on both sandbox and production. All new invoices that are attempted from 12 PM KSA time will be processed successfully.We have also reached out to ZATCA team on their developer community to understand more about the change.
What are the next steps?
ClearTax team will be retrying the invoices that were in ‘Pending’ status and update the entire response for those invoices. The reprocessing for all documents is expected to be completed by 5th October, end of day.
If some invoices have been retried multiple side from the taxpayer side without any change to any of the fields in the xml then ZATCA will consider it as one invoice only and not multiple.
What is required from the taxpayer side?
(i) Please refresh the ‘Documents’ page on the ClearTax web portal to check the latest status of the document as per ZATCA.
(ii) To get the latest status of the document on the ERP please retry the same invoice again or use the ‘Get Invoice’ API