Under Circular No. 3227/19, issued by the Saudi Department of Zakat and Income Tax (DZIT) on 23 May 2010, qualifying payments to non-residents should be subject to withholding tax at domestic rates. Relief under an effective tax treaty would be obtained by way of refund.

As the refund process appeared to be time consuming and has led to long delays in processing the requests (of several mont…

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