21/08/2022

The ISTD has assigned a team of its employees to help social media celebrities and people who achieve financial revenues subject to the tax law from their activities on these sites to reconcile their legal status by submitting tax returns on their incomes derived from their various activities and paying taxes incurred on them.

The department indicated that a group of these activists reviewed the department, reconciled their legal status, submitted tax returns and paid their taxes.

The department indicated that all social media celebrities or any person who obtains or achieves revenue from it is subject to the law, whether the income tax law or the general sales tax law.

The department called on activists, celebrities, influencers, YouTubers, publishers of live broadcast content, video games, activists of promotion and advertising services, or any people who earn income from their activity and their appearance on various social media sites of all kinds, to voluntarily take the initiative to review the department and announce their entry from this activity in order to avoid being subject to fines and legal measures that are taken against them. Those who fail to register voluntarily

It is noteworthy that Article 3 of Income Tax Law No. 34 of 2014 stipulates that any income generated in the Kingdom or earned by any person from it is subject to tax regardless of the place of payment

The department indicated that all social media celebrities, who meet the sales tax registration limit, must register in the general sales tax network, and announce their revenues for all their activities on social networking sites of all kinds and activities, as well as from all channels and activities on the Internet that check. They have legal revenue.

The department urged all activists of all kinds to reconcile their tax conditions and take the initiative to submit their tax returns. If they need help, they can review the team designated for this in the department, and the field is open to review them voluntarily until the beginning of next October, when the department will then take legal action against the defaulters